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December 2, 2015
Get yourself a war president!
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A correspondent wrote in reply to today’s New York Times article by Patrick Healy, “Voters, Worried About Terrorism, Look for Leaders at Ho...
August 13, 2014
Coins of Palestine
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Why was Palestine divided? Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived there together for centuries. The only time it was bad for Jews was when Chri...
August 7, 2014
Noam Chomsky on the Israeli assault on Gaza
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AMY GOODMAN [ Democracy Now ]: Your comments on what has just taken place? NOAM CHOMSKY: It’s a hideous atrocity, sadistic, vicious, murde...
July 27, 2013
Bipartisan war on civil liberties
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Glenn Greenwald writes on the congressional failure to rein in NSA spying: ... But perhaps the most significant and enduring change will b...
April 14, 2013
As towns with fire: so won, so lost
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Anthony C. West, As Towns With Fire (1968): No one seemed to know how wonderful it was to wake and listen to trees talking to new mornings...
April 13, 2013
When you put things in people’s heads
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“ I don’t understand why you’re saying these things ... It’s got to stop — can’t have it, mate. ... You don’t know how I feel — Mum is all u...
April 5, 2013
Pagan: not a soldier.
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PAGAN (Lat. paganus , of or belonging to a pagus , a canton, county district, village, commune) ... It has long been accepted that the appl...
September 8, 2012
War is theft
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not...
January 17, 2012
The Washington Post shakes things up
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First, on Friday Jonathan Turley wrote " 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free ": Every year, the State Departmen...
January 12, 2012
Military spending: USA vs. the world
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Military expeditures 2010 (in billion 2009 USD, as % of 2009 GDP, and per capita) according to the Stockholm International Peace Research In...
January 4, 2012
House and Senate votes for NDAA, military dictatorship
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House (283-136): http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-932 Senate (86-13): http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s20...
December 31, 2011
Greenwald: Ron Paul versus progressives
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Glenn Greenwald has written an excellent piece on the discomfort of progressives with having Ron Paul saying what they should be screaming f...
The Deer Hunter
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[ New York Times, Dec. 30, 2011 ] To the Editor: In “Hunting Deer With My Flintlock” ( Op-Ed, Dec. 26 ), Seamus McGraw says he has a res...
December 29, 2011
This Is What We're Talking About
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Suzanne Goldenberg writes in today's Guardian about how green the U.S. Navy's base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is and the Navy's ...
September 20, 2011
Palestine is already an independent state.
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Thanks to The Guardian for the following map, showing that nations representing about 77% of the world's population already recognize P...
September 15, 2011
Which Side Are You On (Palestine edition)?
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June 30, 2011
Wind industry decries "delegitimization"
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The industrial wind industry is a lot like the state of Israel. Both began in an idealistic spirit of creating an vibrant alternative. Both ...
April 12, 2011
What I Has Learned
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The purpose of a government is to collect taxes from a group of people called a "nation" to fund wars for the benefit of corporati...
March 6, 2011
Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty
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Emma Goldman, 1911: WHAT is patriotism? Is it love of one’s birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspir...
March 2, 2011
$1.22 trillion: feeling secure?
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2012 budget request: Pentagon base budget: $558 billion Iraq & Afghanistan operations: $118 billion Dept. of Energy nuclear weapon...
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