The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
10 Problems with the Latest Excuse for War If you own a television or read a newspaper you’ve probably heard that we need another war because the Syrian government used chemical weapons. If you own a computer and know where to look you’ve probably heard that there isn’t actually any evidence for that claim. Below …
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Waging Peace By Leah Bolger, WarIsACrime.org Pauling Lecture, Oregon State University, Power Point Good evening. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to speak with you this evening—it is such a pleasure to be here. When I received the letter from Professor Clinton congratulating me on being nominated as the 30th person to …
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Screaming in Bradley Manning’s Trial I sat in the courtroom all day on Wednesday as Bradley Manning’s trial wound its way to a tragic and demoralizing conclusion. I wanted to hear Eugene Debs, and instead I was trapped there, watching Socrates reach for the hemlock and gulp it down. Just a few minutes in and …
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Obama’s Campaign to Glorify the War on Vietnam Wars exist because lies are told about past wars. When President Obama escalated the war on Afghanistan, he revived virtually every known lie about the war on Iraq, from the initial WMD BS to the “surge.” While Americans remain unfathomably ignorant about the destruction of Iraq, a …
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Her Name Is Jody Williams Jody Williams’ new book is called My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize, and it’s a remarkable story by a remarkable person. It’s also a very well-told autobiography, including in the early childhood chapters in which there are few hints of the …
Now Two States Pursue Truly Affordable Education Maryland may soon join Oregon in exploring solutions to the crisis of student debt and unaffordable education. Education is supposed to be a human right. But the United States puts people into deep debt to pay for it. Short of taxing billionaires or dismantling bombers (both of which …
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Harry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: “If we see that Germany is winning,” he said, “we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.” Did Truman value …
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