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Obama Vows to Destroy Islamic State, but Expanded Strikes in Syria and Iraq Point to “Endless War”
President Obama has authorized US airstrikes for the first time in Syria and their expansion in Iraq against the militant group Islamic State.
Why End War?
A two-minute sample of why we should end all war, recorded for submission to TED talks.
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The Invisible Diseases of 9/11
Today, those first responders who managed to survive 9/11 are dying off, and our government is doing very little about it.
Broad Coalition Calls for a New Model of Trade
550+ groups reject fast-track trade promotion authority in letter to Senator Wyden.
K-5 Students Deserve a Quality STEM Education, Not Human Rights Violations
Children around the world deserve a quality education without the fear of being abducted, recruited for and coerced into armed combat.
Valdemar W. Setzer on the Obsolescence of Education
My impression is that education is getting worse, and one of the main causes for this is the use of electronic media.
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Warning to War Supporters
If you want to bomb a country every time an evil group murders people in a gruesome manner, you'll have to bomb a lot of countries including our own.
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How the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Bill Gates and Other Billionaires Are Undermining the US
You can see the urge of the United States' new crop of billionaires to “play god” at our expense and with our lives - to decide for us, ad …
DA Joins the Climate Activists He Declined to Prosecute, Citing Danger of Global Warming
Days after they were to square off in court, the DA and the activists now say they plan to march together in the upcoming People's Climate March in New …
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A Review of Koblitz’s “Sex and Herbs and Birth Control“
According to Koblitz, the variation in pregnancy definitions allowed ample moral and ethical wiggle room for women to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.