The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about battle

By Patrick Cockburn

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Blackwater CEO Eric Prince speaks about the US expanding cost to cover the war in Afghanistan, and the overall military spending. He is trying to sell of the company now known as “XE” which was changed after several human righs violation and moral violations that were made known in the press.  The first event was in 2007 in the infamous [...]

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footprints for peace, flier

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Alec Baldwin, Emmy-award winning star of NBC’s comedy show 30 Rock, says safety problems at nuclear power plants — if known publicly — would kill any chance of an industry revival.
President Obama called last month for a “new generation” of nuclear power plants and approved $8.3 billion in loan guarantees last week for two [...]

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students protest Gen Patreus at Georgetown

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President Obama did not say that he would be leaving Afghanistan, but increasing the US presence there is not helping the current situation in that country. Below I have the Obama’s Death toll.

This is an easy reminder that too many people are dying.   As a fellow veteran has said, Peace is winning, War [...]

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FOCUS: IMPERIUM

The US as a great warrior tribe

By Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst

Has the US become a ‘ruling warrior tribe’? [GALLO/GETTY]

According to tribal Yemeni tradition, if a dispute has been resolved [...]

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GENERAL McCHRYSTAL HAS PLANS FOR AFGHANISTAN
By: Bill D.  Vietnam Veteran
The New York Times Magazine recently had a long article about General Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.  The article examined the general’s counterinsurgency plan for “success”.  The Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer recently claimed that General McChrystal is the world’s [...]

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Ash and I were emerging from store in Olympia, WA on Aug. 1st to hear a strangely familiar sound- the drumming and chanting of Napponza Miyogi!  It was Katada Shoni’s anti-nuclear peacewalk, from New Mexico to Seattle.  While we knew vaguely of this walk, we had been very busy with our own plans of moving [...]

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The conversation so far has been only a whisper, but it will grow as things do faster and faster, and pretty soon the conversation of a peace clause in the U.S. constitution will be heard very clearly.  This idea has been discussed in every part of American society, in every part of the American landscape.  [...]

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