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• The Impossible has Happened

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 121
  Yes, thats right the Impossible has happened.   Where were you 20 years ago today?  In Germany and throughout Europe and North America, the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has been celebrated today. On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill used the phrase the "Iron Curtain" in a speech in Westminster ...
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• The character and temperment of James Forrestal - Americas first Sec of Defense

  
  Opinione — Authority: 125
  In the book Limits of Power The End of American Exceptionalism written by Andrew Bacevich , a man retired from the institution of the military and now a member of the academic community with a Ph D in American history, the author writes about the current political crisis in America and explains how some influential ...
  14 hours ago

• Cold War relics that do more to threaten America’s national security than to protect it

  
  Opinione — Authority: 125
  The field of political science is an academic discipline that studies political power. When that field of study is trained on Washington D.C. and a political scientist wants to examine which institutions and organizations in the national government have the most power, the two most prominent institutions are the ...
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• The power of the media to keep Americans naïve of the presence of militarism

  
  Opinione — Authority: 125
  The power of the media to shape public opinion should not be underestimated as it plays a dramatic role in the ever-increasing influence of militarism in American culture and society. This presence of militarism in American political culture is proving to be the most important contributing factor in America’s demise ...
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• Diary 7 November 2009

  
  Group News Blog — Authority: 515
  (Westward IV screen shot) In my e-mail today is an offer from Sandlot Games to pre-purchase the upcoming release of their game Westward IV for half-price. These folks already have my business for several reasons: They have equal or almost equal numbers of available heroines in a variety of races, classes, and ...
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• DIARY 7 NOVEMBER 2009

  
  Meta Watershed — Authority: 125
  (Westward IV screen shot) In my e-mail today is an offer from Sandlot Games to pre-purchase the upcoming release of their game Westward IV for half-price. These folks already have my business for several reasons: They have equal or almost equal numbers of available heroines in a variety of races, classes, and ...
  2 days ago

• Our Soldiers of Islam

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 558
  Its not often I say this, but this photo by Dallas Morning News photographer Sonya N. Hebert offers a powerful, important and very timely contribution following Maj. Nidal Hasans Ft. Hood killing spree . The photo shows Sgt. Fahad Kamal of Houston praying today during Friday prayer services at the Islamic Community ...
  3 days ago

• An analysis of the news coverage of the mass murder at Fort Hood Texas

  
  Opinione — Authority: 125
  An analysis of the news coverage of the mass murder at Fort Hood Texas , indicate that the media is focusing on the individual actions of the shooter, instead of discussing the larger more important issue, such as the dangers imposed on a civil society by supporting a perpetual war . While the media has a right to ...
  3 days ago

• Molly’sBlog 2009-11-05 22:06:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 154
  ANTI-MILITARISM-TURKEY/ISRAEL: TURKISH DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF ISRAELI WAR RESISTERS: Over the years many brave Israeli citizens have refused compulsory military service in their countrys continued aggression against their Palestinian neighbours. Two recent ones, now prisoners of conscience, ...
  4 days ago

• VANDENBERG MP’s GONE WILD

  
  Vandenberg Witness — Authority: 103
  Three people were arrested on November 4 during the monthly peace vigil at Vandenberg AFB main gate.  Dennis Apel again was cited for a “ban and bar” violation. Two other vigilers in the designated protest area were arrested for not identifying themselves with ID.  One, Bud Booth, 84 year old veteran of WWII ...
  4 days ago

• *In The Time Of The Robber Barons- Yankee Reformers In The Late 19th Century (The Time Of The Three Name People)

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 146
  Click on title to link to the "Radical Academy" website for more information about some of the three name Boston reformers (like Oliver Wendell Holmes) mentioned in the book reviewed below. Book Review Yankee Reformers in the Urban Age: Social Reform In Boston 1880-1900, Arthur Mann, Harper Torchbooks, New York, ...
  4 days ago

• 81-year old Episcopal Priest Tasered by AF Base Police

  
  Blazing Indiscretions — Authority: 428
  One of the unofficial USAF mottoes is "No one comes close." Well theyve certainly lived up to it. Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner An 81-year-old man was Tasered during a traffic stop last week. It is the second time since 1998 that police have had to make a show of force during a traffic stop to arrest Glen M. ...
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• The Vaccum in Florida’s Anti-War Politics & A Strategy for a New Foreign Policy

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  Mark Weaver A major factor in America’s vicious expanding wars of aggression, now accelerating under the Democratic Party, is the vacuum at the state and local level such as in Florida of any organized movement for a new foreign policy. The wars are being ...
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• The Vaccum in Florida’s Anti-War Politics & A Strategy for a New Foreign Policy

  
  Florida Progressive Coalition Blog — Authority: 510
  A major factor in America’s vicious expanding wars of aggression, now accelerating under the Democratic Party, is the vacuum at the state and local level such as in Florida of any organized movement for a new foreign policy. The wars are being driven by think tanks and advocacy groups in Washington, the Pentagon and ...
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• Comfort Women Still Wait For An Apology From Japan

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 549
  Via Gender Across Borders , Women forced into sex slavery in Japan during WWII, nicknamed “comfort women”, are still seeking an official apology from the Japanese government. These now elderly women, mostly from North and South Korea, are hoping for the official apology they have deserved for decades. It ...
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• Militarization of public schooling

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 520
  He turned Chicago into a Mecca for military schools . Chi-town has more than any city in the nation. A DOE media advisory informs us that today Arne Duncan will take time out from his Listening Tour with Newt Gingrich to support generals and admirals calling for students to be better prepared for the war ...
  5 days ago

• Post-American Europe

  
  Suspense Author's Daily HotchPotch — Authority: 133
  European think-tank:[...] a study on Monday called “Toward a Post-American Europe,” based on wide-ranging interviews and research conducted in the 27 E.U. member states. In it, the authors make a clear appeal to European leaders: This “fetishization” of the trans-Atlantic relationship must stop, write Jeremy ...
  6 days ago

• Rape Victim Tells Sen. Vitter Off For His No Vote On Franken Amendment

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 549
  This woman is my shero for confronting Sen. David Vitter on his vote against the Franken Amendment that prohibits the government from hiring contractors that won’t allow victims of sexual violence to take their cases to court. Transcript via The Huffington Post : WOMAN: It meant everything to me that I was ...
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• Gilad Schalit in Captivity – Israel’s Most Valuable Asset of Occupation

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 583
  The youth in Israel are raised to willingly and even proudly enlist into the army. I personally remember being promised, by my high school teachers that if something happens to me, Israel doesn’t forsake it’s “sons and daughters”. It’s been a while since I was in school, but nothing has changed:[IDF Chief of ...
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• The "U.S.S. World Trade Center" in Front of... Well, You Get the Drift

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 558
  (Click for larger size) Im in awe of the military industrial complex marketing geniuses on this one. Think anybody is going to bat an eye about a new amphibious transport dock ship when you name it the U.S.S. New York, melt 7.5 tons of World Trade Center steel into it, then preview it in the New York harbor in ...
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