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• 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

  
  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 ...
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• Our Soldiers of Islam

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 549
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
  2 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, ...
  3 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: 145
  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, ...
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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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• Comfort Women Still Wait For An Apology From Japan

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 540
  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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• Rape Victim Tells Sen. Vitter Off For His No Vote On Franken Amendment

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 540
  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: 584
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• The "U.S.S. World Trade Center" in Front of... Well, You Get the Drift

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 549
  (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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• *From The Partisan Defense Committee-Drop All Charges Against Elliot Madison and Michael Wallschlaeger!

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 145
  Click on title to link to article from the Partisan Defense Committee concerning the situation with some of the key organizers of the September G20 demonstrations in Pittsburgh. Markin comment: All that Twitters is not gold. Although technology can be helpful to those of us who struggle against the imperial ...
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• The End is Near!

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 549
  (Click for full size) The latest photo from the White House Flickr Stream (posted yesterday -- only a few hours after it was taken) reminds us that the end (of the Afghanistan strategy re-review) is near. According to both the picture and the impressively comprehensive caption, we see Obama with the Joint Chiefs ...
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• Shutting Down the Machine - US diplomat resigns to protest Afghan war

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Matthew Lee, was distributed by the AP, October 28, 2009 WASHINGTON -A former Marine who fought in Iraq and became a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has resigned in a high-profile protest of the Afghan war.Foreign service officer Matthew Hoh is the first U.S. official known to have ...
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• Bob Feldman 68: U.S. Invasion of Panama Revisited- A Guest Commentary

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 145
  Markin comment: Click on title to link to Bob Feldmans take on another of those little imperial adventures the memories of which get left behind when the big guns like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan get rolled out.
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• Bob Feldman 68: `Hands Off Iran lyrics-(And The World-Markin)- A Guest Commentary

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 145
  Markin comment: Click on to view Bob Feldmans lyrics. We may still need them before we are done.
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• Big Thinking on the permanent war economy/society/state

  
  Old Hickory's Weblog — Authority: 428
  Several of my favorite bloggers have been attending a conference sponsoring by the Democratic-leaning Americas Future group called, "Making it in America: Building The New Economy." Digby in Bubbly Spartans Hullabaloo 10/29/09 in a report from the conference points out that a significant amount of American ...
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• Big Thinking on the permanent war economy/society/state

  
  The Blue Voice — Authority: 131
  Several of my favorite bloggers have been attending a conference sponsoring by the Democratic-leaning Americas Future group called, "Making it in America: Building The New Economy." Digby in Bubbly Spartans Hullabaloo 10/29/09 in a report from the conference points out that a significant amount of American ...
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• The Return of Howard Zinn, and Company

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 141
  A packed house hears a left-wing critique of Obama by Seth Rolbein, BU Today , Oct 29, 2009 BOSTON UNIVERSITY – With the Tsai Performance Center filled to its 500-seat capacity, many in the audience remembered when that hall was named Hayden, the University was in turmoil, and Howard Zinn was both ...
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