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Iran Nuclear Deal as Geopolitical Global Warming
With Iran holding the dubious honor of being the CIA's first adventure in the overthrow of a foreign government in 1953, the blowback for that and every other insidious …
The Global War on Terror and Internally Displaced Thanksgivings
Except for those directly participating in GWOT or returning home from overseas military deployments, including their immediate families, this Thanksgiving few US citizens will consider how an international antiterrorism …
New Satire Campaign Launches War Against Irrational Fear
Lighting strikes, dogs, football, bathtubs and the flu all cause more American deaths annually than domestic terrorism.
Shalom with Iran: 100 Sign Rabbinic Statement
By evening of October 25, 116 Jewish clergy (Rabbis, Cantors, Maggidim, Kohanot) u2014 u2014 more than a minyan of minyanim u2014 have signed the Rabbinic Statement …
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Groups Call on Congress to Make Massive Cuts in Runaway Military Spending
A diverse array of organizations today launched a campaign to enact major cuts in wasteful military spending, as part of the December 13 federal budget resolution. The groups include …
Now That Parades Have Ended
This is the reality of war, a reality that we know and those who make war try to hide; memories and knowledge that we have tried to forget, or …
Military Commissions Unraveling, Gitmo Attorneys Say
Two former Guantanamo prisoners ask court to vacate convictions.
50 Organizations Seek Ban on Armed Drones
At the United Nations this month, Brazil, China, Venezuela and other nations denounced U.S. drone wars as illegal.
Veterans’ Day, 2013: To My Comrades in Arms, Past and Present
I was decorated enough times to have made a difference in an Air Force career should I have stayed active. But unfortunately, my u201cwaru201d experiences only gave me a …
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Military Religious Freedom Foundation Posts Billboard Slamming US Air Force Academy Usage of Religious Oath
Weinstein maintains that those cadets who opt out of swearing the oath would u201cstick out like a tarantula on a wedding cake.u201d