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Author: Joan Brannigan

Joan Brannigan is president of the St. Louis, MO chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Can democracy cure American capitalism?

April 29, 2014 Joan Brannigan Economy, Ideas Leave a comment

Notes from a lecture by political economist Richard Wolff, author of Capitalism Hits the Fan: Capitalism is sick and American capitalism is the disease.

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Dirty Wars

March 27, 2014 Joan Brannigan Literature/Arts/Film, War Leave a comment

Last week, I watched  a documentary shown by the St. Louis Peace Economy Project and Instead of War. It was called Dirty Wars and was based on the

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In Congress: A bill to abolish nuclear weapons by 2020

February 3, 2014 Joan Brannigan Activism, Military, War Leave a comment

We need to work to end wars. One way to do that is to get rid of all nuclear weapons. Eleanor Holmes Norton has

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War weary? There’s a bill for that.

December 5, 2013 Joan Brannigan Activism, Congress, War Leave a comment

With winter coming, I love to go out when it snows and the air is so peaceful.  I even like to shovel snow at

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