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21 November 2010
A follow up on my fifth grade essay: education at gunpoint
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Ramzy Baroud
I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on "Education and Youth". Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, it might have read something like this:

"Youth is the backbone of any nation...
20 November 2010
Obama wooing “Economic Royalists”
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Norman Solomon
In his first term, President Franklin Roosevelt denounced "the economic royalists." He drew the line against the heartless rich: "They are unanimous in their hate for me -- and I welcome their hatred."

What a...
20 November 2010
U.S. wars are bankrupting the world
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David Swanson
The endless and infinite "war on terra" is bankrupting the planet. I don't mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy. And don't take my word for it. This is the argument made in a new book called "...
18 November 2010
Peddling war to children
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Robert Koehler
In the gap between a boy’s passionate fantasies and the smell of dead bodies in a mass grave marches . . . America’s Army.
“He wonders if God is punishing him because before he joined the Army he thought of war as something fun and...
14 November 2010
Foreign Affairs - remaking the Middle East
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Jim Miles
The title from this issue of Foreign Affairs struck me as rather odd, in particular the subtitle “New Challenges Call for New Policies. Are the U.S. and Israel Ready to Change Course?” (September/October 2010) The U.S. has been trying to...
11 November 2010
Open letter to Congress on Veteran's Day 2010
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United For Peace & Justice
We write to you on Veterans Day 2010, and just weeks before the expected appearance of a report from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, to urge you to consider a change of course from the skyrocketing military...

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