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11 May 2010
Afghan escalation funding: More war, fewer jobs, poor excuses
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David Swanson
Isn’t it time to call what Congress will soon vote on by its right name: war escalation funding?
Early in 2009, President Barack Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan with 21,000 "combat" troops, 13,000 "support" troops, and at...
08 May 2010
Soul of a citizen: beyond the Impossibly perfect standard
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Paul Loeb
From reining in Wall Street to preventing the next oil spill and tackling global climate change, we often hold back from taking important public stands because we’re caught in a trap I call “the perfect standard.” Before let ourselves take...
06 May 2010
The price of courage: on Goldstone’s bar mitzvah and Finkelstein’s book
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Ramzy Baroud
In his report on Gaza issued late last year, prominent South African jurist Richard Goldstone accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. His language also showed awareness of the fact that the former is an occupying power with most...
05 May 2010
Dear Fiscal Conservative War Supporter
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David Swanson
Is it that you don't know what war costs, or that you don't know that it makes us less safe?
We've spent $268 billion on making war on Afghanistan, and using Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz' analysis of Iraq we need to multiply...
02 May 2010
Two faces appear behind Bangkok's bamboo barricades
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Two Thai faces appear behind the sharpened bamboo poles and hundreds of car tires which form lengthy menacing barricades, now stinking of urine, rotten food and other debris, along Bangkok's busy downtown streets....
01 May 2010
Massey and Goldman under criminal investigation
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David Swanson
War makers, torturers, warrantless spyers, and all sorts of other categories of criminals are still off the hook. But there is a bit of "looking backward" going on. Two out of the three people whom we at StopTheChamber.com have asked for...

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