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At the Veterans For Peace Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 26, 2018, the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation awarded its 2018 Peace Prize to David Swanson, director of World BEYOND War.

Michael Knox, Chair of the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation, remarked: 

“We have a culture of war in the U.S. Americans who oppose a war are often labeled traitors, unpatriotic, un-American, and antimilitary. As you know, to work for peace you must be brave and make great personal sacrifices.

 

Two exhibits in the Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota present two contrasting worldviews, a truly sociopathic one supporting mass-murder manufactured by the U.S. government in 1917-1918, and a caring and decent one created by individuals and small organizations in the 1960s. I hope visitors are catching on to the necessity and urgency to choose the right one. See if you can spot the difference:

German people are monsters coming to get you unless you fork over your money for more bullets and poison gas!

Director/co-playwright/red diaper baby (of sorts) Mark Lonow’s semi-autobiographical Jews, Christians and Screwing Stalin cleverly interweaves the comic and the tragic, the personal and the political. Lonow claims that his grand-uncle Yakov Sverdlov had the distinct honor and pleasure of shooting Czar Nicholas II, and this two-acter has leftwing allusions galore, amidst Turgenev caliber father-son conflicts. Borscht Belt banter is interspersed with socialist shtick.

 

Co-written with his wife, comedy veteran Jo Anne Astrow, their turf deals with members of Mark’s Marxist meshugenah family, including his grandmother Minka Grazonsky (Cathy Ladman who, appropriately appeared on TV’s Scandal and Mad Men series), who purports to have schtupped Joseph Stalin during the heady days of the Bolshevik Revolution. 

 

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Pentagon has conducted its first army-to-army
exercise in Brunei along the strategic, contested South China Sea
after the U.S. State Department suggested obedience to the sultanate's
Islamic Shariah laws which punish offenders, including homosexuals and
Christians.

The main job of Brunei's small army is to protect the country's
petroleum and natural gas fields.

The August 6-16 Pahlawan Warrior exercise included 33 U.S. Army and
Indiana Army National Guard soldiers under the U.S. Indo-Pacific
Command (USINDOPACOM) partnered with Royal Brunei Land Forces on
jungle warfare operations, urban terrain tactics and other practice.

They "spent four nights located deep within the nation's southwest
rainforest" in operations observed by Hawaii-based members of the 25th
Infantry Division Lighting Academy, according to the U.S. Army Pacific
Public Affairs Office.

"Bruneian Soldiers taught classes on jungle survival, movement to
contact, land navigation and ambush techniques. The training

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