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Budget Realignment Reflects Pentagon’s Vision of Covert and Endless War
by Brian J. Trautman The Pentagon’s budget proposal for next year was announced last week by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. In an interview with The New York Times, Hagel argued that to meet today’s
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Military recruitment is (still) not a STEM education
By Erin Niemela Reposted with the permission of Tom Hastings of PeaceVoice I am a parent of a an elementary school student in Portland, Ore., and early this week I discovered our school is participating
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In Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples
By Laura Finley, Ph.D. Reposted with the permission of Tom Hastings of PeaceVoice Last I heard, contracts negotiated between two consenting and capable parties are supposed to be binding, with repercussions if one party violates
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Romanian in Arizona
By Valeriu Maxim Arizona Community Press | www.azcommunitypress.org Romania is a beautiful, small Eastern European country, its surface of 92,043 sq. miles is slightly smaller than the size of Wyoming. Nature was very generous with
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Acting with Impunity: The Case of General Electric
By Lawrence S. Wittner Reposted with the permission of Tom Hastings of PeaceVoice Can the world’s biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric (GE) — the eighth largest U.S. corporation, with
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Guns and Domestic Violence: A Lethal Mix
By Laura Finley, Ph.D. Reposted with the permission of Tom Hastings of PeaceVoice The Supreme Court has now agreed to hear a case involving whether persons convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors should be prohibited from
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OP-ED: Taking the Profit Out of War
By Peter G. Cohen Reposted with the permission of Tom Hastings of PeaceVoice We now have a huge war machine that dwarfs President Eisenhower’s warning about the undue influence of the military-industrial complex. In
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The Missing Choice
By David R. Andersen-Rodgers Reposted with the permission of Tom Hastings of PeaceVoice There is a glaring hole in the choices being considered by the United States and the international community in response to
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OP-ED: Hasan/Bales
By Sean Patrick Miller YA BASTA! | www.seanmiller12.wordpress.com Nidal Hasan, Maj. US Army, faces execution after being found guilty of thirteen homicides and thirty two attempted homicides in the infamous Fort Hood massacre. He
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OP-ED: Another Drone Strike
YA BASTA! | www.seanmiller12.wordpress.com The headline read, “New Drone Strike in Yemen Kills Six”. ‘Murica cannot learn. Washington is like a little kid, waving a red flag at a charging bull. The population of
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