The industry we used to have in the United States:
What a job fair looks like now in Charlottesville:
Discussing the situation:
While the Complex likes to threaten job loss and no doubt eliminates jobs in some places but not others, the overall military budget is bigger this year than
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Eight years ago, Donald Rumsfeld asked Jim Haynes whether they should seek new legislation on detainee treatment “so we get off the hook legally.” Rumsfeld’s request and Haynes’ response are here: PDF.
Haynes admitted that legislation could “reduce arbitrariness” but warned that by asking for legislation a precedent would be set for future presidents. In addition, Haynes cautioned, legislation might “limit the President’s ability . . . to gather
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Please phone someone in Los Angeles now and tell them to vote and volunteer for Marcy Winograd tomorrow.
Here’s why:
Here’s the footage discussed above:
Two-thirds of America wants the war on Afghanistan ended. Veterans for Peace asked the candidates in this Tuesday’s special election to sign a commitment not to fund more war. Marcy Winograd
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Now we know why Obama has gone to such outrageous lengths to keep Bush’s lawyers out of prison, claiming powers of secrecy and immunity beyond Cheney’s wildest dreams and pressuring foreign nations to clamp down on any outbreaks of law enforcement.
If the Bush lawyers who “legalized” aggressive war, lawless imprisonment, and torture were not consulted on how to keep the war in Libya going in perpetuity, they were certainly the inspiration for the latest White House brainstorming
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U.S. newspapers sometimes print what they call the total death count from one or more of our wars, and all the dead who are listed are Americans. They aren’t all the Americans. They don’t include contractors or suicides or various other categories of dead Americans. They certainly don’t include those who died for lack of basic needs while we dumped half of our public treasury into wars.
But they also don’t include anyone from that 95% of humanity that’s not from
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I’ve been asking for a congress member to do this for years. This is the first time one has said they would.
http://twitter.com/#!/RepMcGovern/status/68772828631146496
I tweeted this: Will you form a public whip list of members who will vote against any more war $? If not, why not?
@RepMcGovern tweeted: @davidcnswanson We’re working on putting a list together now.
Good news indeed.
Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start
Afghanistan was supposed to be the campaign promise that President Barack Obama actually kept. He said he would escalate that war, and sure enough he did. Is he now going back on promises he’s made as president, by proposing to withdraw 2.5% of US forces in July?
Here are the relevant promises:
“After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home … [O]ur
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By Lee Shearer, Athens Banner-Herald
Humanity seems bent on destroying itself, according to David Swanson, the featured speaker for this year’s 33rd annual Athens Human Rights Festival.
“I think our country and our world are headed in very dangerous directions,” said blogger, author and anti-war activist David Swanson – growing ill-will, resentment and antagonism among peoples, continuing proliferation of deadly weapons, and humanity’s seeming march toward extinction
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When a United Airlines pilot of a flight I was on celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden, and I blogged about it, my friend Emily Levy urged me to complain to the airline. So I did. Here’s their response, followed by what I had sent them.
Dear Mr. Swanson:
Thank you for contacting us. We are currently experiencing a high volume of emails, and I offer my apology for the delayed response to your message.
I am very sorry to hear that our pilot vocalized his personal opinion with the passenger’s
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