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18 September 2013
Next Step for Peace in Syria -- Stop the “Lethal Aid”
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Norman Solomon
Now that public pressure has foiled U.S. plans to bomb Syria, the next urgent step is to build public pressure for stopping the deluge of weapons into that country.

Top officials in Washington are happy that American “lethal...
18 September 2013
Building Real Peace
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Robert Koehler
“Imagine if we sent 5,000 well-trained nonviolent peacekeepers from throughout the world to protect civilians and work with local civil society in building the peace."

Indeed, imagine if we knew that doing this was an option...
17 September 2013
Five years after the crash began
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Jesse Jackson
Five years after the beginning of the financial collapse and the Great Recession, where are we? This week, President Obama offered Americans a progress report. He hailed the steps taken to turn the economy around and rescue the auto and...
17 September 2013
Admit it: Things are going well
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David Swanson
When something goes right
Oh, it's likely to lose me
It's apt to confuse me
It's such an unusual sight
—Paul Simon
Larry Summers has proven unacceptable to oversee the continued destruction of the U.S. economy...
15 September 2013
Syria is an epic victory for the SuperPower of Peace
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Harvey Wasserman
The United States is not now bombing Syria.

Let’s savor that again: for the moment at least, the United States is not now bombing Syria.

That alone qualifies as an epic, unprecedented victory for the SuperPower...
15 September 2013
Liberal Luminaries in Senate Are Swing Votes on Bombing Syria
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Norman Solomon
Many senators began this week still uncommitted on whether they’ll vote for attacking Syria. Among the fence-sitters are enough “progressives” to swing the Senate’s decision one way or the other.

That decision is coming soon...

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