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Lies About Rwanda Mean More Wars If Not Corrected
Urge the ending of war these days and you'll very quickly hear the brutal 1994 massacre in Rwanda invoked.
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Why the Surprise About Obama’s Iraq Whitewash? He’s Been Whitewashing the Iraq War Since Before It Began
Many liberals were shocked this past week when Barack Obama dismissed accusations of American hypocrisy in the face of Russia's actions in Crimea. Obama's 2014 defense of the Iraq …
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The Turn of the Key
Poem on nuclear weapons by David Krieger
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The Crimea Crisis Offers President Obama a Chance to Retroactively Earn His Nobel Peace Prize
This newfound inclination to give peace a chance in the Crimea stand off with Russia illustrates what President Barack Obama meant during his State of the Union speech when …
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No Corporate Impunity for Abu Ghraib Torture, Attorneys Urge Court
A month before the 10-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib torture photos, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel urged a federal appeals court to re-open a …
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Gareth Porter: Manufacturing a Narrative for War
Investigative journalist Gareth Porter tells Paul Jay about his new book “Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.”
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SIMILARITIES: 1914 and 2014
Poetry by David Krieger on the similarities between the start of World War I and the situation in Ukraine
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Washington’s Back-to-the-Future Military Policies in Africa
Since 9/11, the US military has been making inroads in Africa. Despite repeated assurances that military activities on the continent were minuscule, a 2013 investigation by TomDispatch exposed surprisingly …
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Ceasefire Arrested in South Sudan: Uganda, IGAD and the Resurgence of Violence
Ethnic violence continues to smoulder throughout several states in South Sudan despite an official cessation of hostilities signed on the 23rd of January, 2014
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Can America Afford to Bring Home the Employee Army?
What happens when a war ends and an army comes home? It's been a vexing problem for centuries. Now the United States faces the problem again.