The Evil of Arms Sales
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The Awesome Samaritan
And, behold, a certain debate moderator stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
And he said unto him, Thou hast made this stuff up. There thou goest again.
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who
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Chicago Restricts Drones: Who's Next?
Chicago media outlets are reporting that drones have been banned from most of Chicago’s skies and cannot fly over you or your property without your permission. The text of the ordinance, however, makes exceptions for police that will require eternal vigilance.
Local legislative action around drones began in U.S. cities in early 2013 with the public demand for resolutions
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Mayor of Roanoke Va. Shows Off Ignorance and Bigotry
This statement by the Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, surely takes the prize for government-sanctioned ignorance and bigotry in 2015.
Is he aware that comparing World War II participating armies to a group like ISIS is ridiculous, that World War II killed upwards of 50 million people, primarily through the activities of the largest, wealthiest militaries on earth?
Is he aware that the United States was forced to apologize for and pay reparations to the victims of the internment camps used against Japanese
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5 Things to Do About ISIS, or Can an American Without a Gun "Do Something"?
Toward the end of altering our idea of what counts as “doing something,” I offer this composite representation of numerous media interviews I’ve done.
Interviewer: So you’d stop the planes and the drones and the bombs and the special forces. You’ve said lots about what you wouldn’t do, but can you say what you would do?
Me: Sure, I believe the United States government should propose and attempt to negotiate and at the same time unilaterally
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Russian Media
Watch me criticize Russia on Russian media (7 minutes in). Imagine US media allowing such talk about US!
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/322473-terror-sinai-plane-crash/
Talk Nation Radio: Husain Abdulla on Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-husain-abdulla-on-americans-for-democracy-and-human-rights-in-bahrain
Husain Abdulla, originally from Bahrain, is the founder and Executive Director of Americans for Democracy and Human
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Bernie Sanders Mentioned the Military Budget
If U.S. President were not a mythical position but a serious job, the job interview would include asking the candidates their basic plans of action. This would start with, “What will you encourage Congress to spend a couple of trillion dollars on each year?”
At the moment, about half of federal discretionary spending is spent on one thing, militarism. A basic budget proposal from each candidate would tell us whether they think military spending should go up or down. Some of the Republicans
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Non-French War Deaths Matter
We are all France. Apparently. Though we are never all Lebanon or Syria or Iraq for some reason. Or a long, long list of additional places.
We are led to believe that U.S. wars are not tolerated and cheered because of the color or culture of the people being bombed and occupied. But let a relatively tiny number of people be murdered in a white, Christian, Western-European land, with a pro-war government, and suddenly sympathy is the order of the day.
“This is not just an attack on the French
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