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Tag: War

peace economy

Guns or butter? Butter, says Peace Economy Project

August 15, 2018 Maggie Hannick Economy, War Leave a comment

What’s better: a military-based economy or a peace-based economy?  Jason Sibert of the Peace Economy Project, says that cutting military spending and funding human

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Francis Horton

What a Hell of a Way to Organize: An Interview With Francis Horton

February 14, 2018 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, Guns, Military, War One comment

(reprinted from Midwest Socialist) Francis Horton is that rarest of U.S. soldiers: a leftist and self-identifying socialist. Born in Missouri in 1983, he joined

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Eye In the Sky: The moral choices of drone warfare

April 3, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Literature/Arts/Film, War Leave a comment

“Eye in the Sky,” is not your typical war movie. Director Gavin Hood has created a military thriller without firefights, bombs, ear-shattering explosions or

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The case for closing our overseas military bases

October 26, 2015 Madonna Gauding Media, Military, Politics 2 comments

The most popular post, over the years, on Occasional Planet is: “Military Mystery: how many bases does the US have, anyway?”  American University anthropology

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Talking points on Syria for news propagandists

October 7, 2015 Madonna Gauding Foreign Policy, Media, War Leave a comment

I’m one of those “cord-cutters.” I’ve also given up all mainstream media news. Even though I can still watch and read it online, I mostly

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More boots on the ground for Iraq? Retired Air Force officer says, “No.”

June 1, 2015 Susan Cunningham Foreign Policy, Military Leave a comment

Below is a letter in the May 30th, 2015 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, from a retired US Air Force officer. He says what many of

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Putin and Obama opposite world views

Washington’s Putin-did-it conspiracy theory and its escalation of the crisis in Ukraine

March 7, 2015 Madonna Gauding Foreign Policy, Government, Media, Uncategorized, War Leave a comment

I am frightened, saddened and angered by the war propaganda published in the US media, particularly the New York Times, the so-called “paper of

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Ukrainians refusing to fight in U.S. proxy war with Russia

February 11, 2015 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, War One comment

In case you haven’t noticed, U.S. mainstream media has been spewing out anti-Russian, anti-Putin propaganda since the U.S. backed coup in Kiev last year.

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America’s role in spawning terror

January 20, 2015 Susan Cunningham Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Violence One comment

I suspect that most Americans don’t realize how much we are responsible for the acts of terror being committed in European countries. I know

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America loves war

January 5, 2015 Susan Cunningham Military, War One comment

I am reading James Risen’s latest book on how the military-industrial complex has morphed into the military-homeland security-intelligence complex. Risen is a New York

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