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The Five Commandments of Barack Obama: How “Thou Shalt Not” Became “Thou Shalt“
In January 2009, Barack Obama entered the Oval Office projecting idealism, broadcasting five commandments by which life in his new world of national security would be lived. Five years …
Top Six Reasons to Stop Fighting Wars
War is nothing other than murder on a large scale.
War on Iraq: Open Letter to John Kerry
"I feel a moral obligation to do whatever is within my power to help these people who I once hurt."
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Bully Nation
"The individual bully is the creation of the bully nation," according to sociologists Yale Magrass and Charles Derber, who note that bullying Chris Christie-style is a product of a …
They Never Announce When You Prevent a War
This is no time to let up, but to recognize our power and press harder for peace.
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Mike Lofgren | Gates Agonistes
The political psyops effort by Robert Gates disguised as a tell-all, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense at War," proves that spies are inherently suspect people who must …
When Will They Ever Learn? The American People and Support for War
When it comes to war, the American public is remarkably fickle.
The Living Hell of the Japanese-American War
The explosive residue of America's atomic bombing of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 dominates relations between Japan and the United States.
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Lobbying for Iran War, AIPAC’s Napkin Is Half-Empty
Robert Naiman: Blowing up President Obama's diplomacy with Iran would be the foreign policy equivalent of repealing ObamaCare.
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Ninety-Nine Years Ago: A Pause in the War on Christmas
Frank Richards remembers how Officers of both sides of a war came to an understanding that the unofficial truce during trench warfare on Christmas.