The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ENDING ALL WAR: An Idea Whose Time Has Come — For Our Children and All Future Generations By David Swanson and David Hartsough with input from George Lakey, Jan Passion, Mike Ferner, Colleen Kelly, Ruth Benn, Leah Bolger, Nathan Schneider, Hakim, Paul Chappell, Colin Archer, Kathy Kelly, et alia. (none of whom are to blame …
A New Kind of War Is Being Legalized There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as …
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Awkwardest and Most Authoritative Ever Comments on Drones The comments come from Malala and the U.N. respectively. President Obama invited Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for girls’ education, to meet with his family. And she promptly explained that what he is doing works against her agenda and fuels terrorism. Malala is a victim of …
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Two Kinds of Countries: Israel’s Dangerous Path There are two kinds of countries or societies or places to live. In the first kind, decent, fair, kind, and respectful treatment of every person takes precedent over anyone’s preferences for how a culture changes or how much effort is expended trying to slow the change of a …
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Baltimore’s poorer neighborhoods have been dealing with Martin O’Malley for years and years, as I can recall from when I worked in ACORN’s national office and heard all about the trouble this man was from our Maryland chapter. O’Malley, once mayor of Baltimore and now governor of Maryland, may run for president of the United …
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Is the Federal Government a Drug-Induced Hallucination? You laugh, but that could be a side-effect. Consider: The Capitol Police just murdered an unarmed mother fleeing her car on foot, declared her child “unharmed,” and received the longest standing-ovation in Congress since Osama bin Laden’s Muslim sea burial. Try holding your breath until Congress takes the …
Beginning the Ending of War This article is the Introduction to the new book War No More: The Case for Abolition, published in October 2013. As I write this, in September 2013, something extraordinary has just happened. Public pressure has led the British Parliament to refuse a prime minister’s demand for war for the first …
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