29 March 2012
The Bad Apple
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Robert Koehler
So it turns out that mass-murder suspect Robert Bales once used a bad word in a Facebook conversation.

This is one of the more bizarre details of his life that has come breathlessly to light in the media, along with his big...
29 March 2012
No Justice Without Peace
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David Swanson
Last night in New York City, by my unscientific estimate, two-thirds of the people on the streets had alcohol in them. A young man celebrating his wedding engagement was stabbed to death. A party caused a third floor apartment to...
26 March 2012
Why George Zimmerman must be arrested and tried for the murder of Trayvon Martin
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Andy Ostoy
The death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin one month ago in Sanford, Fl has all the earmarks of the 1964 Mississippi murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner... right down to an inept local police...
26 March 2012
Elections: What are they good for?
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David Swanson
I think two opposing trends have been at work in U.S. history. One is that of allowing more people to vote. This is an ongoing struggle, of course, but in some significant sense we've allowed poor people and women and non-white people and...
20 March 2012
Nine years later: More shocked, less awed
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David Swanson
When I lived in New York 20 years ago, the United States was beginning a 20-year war on Iraq. We protested at the United Nations. The Miami Herald depicted Saddam Hussein as a giant fanged spider attacking the United States. Hussein was...
19 March 2012
Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
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David Swanson
PREAMBLE
Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not self-enforcing,
Whereas statement of the inherent dignity and of the equal and supposedly inalienable rights of all members of the human family achieves little...

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