Note of corrections (2006)

From the October 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard

The article "September 11, 2001: Reflections on a Somewhat Unusual Act of War" (September Socialist Standard) refers to arguments that it states were made by anti-war analyst Rahul Mahajan in his book The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002). In fact, these arguments were drawn from another book by the same author: Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.)

In the August issue we stated that "China is using 47 per cent of the world's cement to complete the damming of the Yangzi" (p. 8). In the September issue we wrote that China was using "almost 70 percent of the world's cement supplies on a single dam project" (p. 9). Both figures can't be right. In fact, both are wrong. China is generally calculated as using 47 per cent of the world's cement (see, for example, http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/12 5468/1/1893) but not all of this is for the Yangzi dam project.