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A Pro- and Anti-War Dialogue

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Anti-War Advocate: Is there a case that can be made for war?

Pro-War Advocate: Well, yes. In a word: Hitler!

Anti-War Advocate: Is “Hitler!” a case for future wars? Let me suggest some reasons why I think it isn’t. First, the world of the 1940s is gone, its colonialism and imperialism replaced by other varieties, its absence of nuclear weapons replaced by their ever-present threat. No matter how many people you call “Hitler,” none of them is Hitler, none of read more

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Their Mouths Are Moving, or How Can You Tell a Politician Is Lying About War?

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By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune

Someone asked me to find war lies during the past few years. Perhaps they had in mind the humanitarian pretenses around attacking Libya in 2011 and Iraq in 2014, or the false claims about chemical weapons in 2013, or the lies about an airplane in Ukraine or the endlessly reported Russian invasions of Ukraine. Maybe they were thinking of the “ISIS Is In Brooklyn” headlines or the routine false claims about the identities of drone victims or the read more

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Obama's Seven Slaughters: It's a Disease, Not a Doctrine

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By David Swanson, Telesur

Former Israeli prison guard Jeffrey Goldberg’s “The Obama Doctrine” in The Atlantic presents President Barack Obama’s view of his own foreign policy (with input from a few of his close subordinates). Obama views himself as a radical leader in military restraint, in brave resistance to war mongers, and in scaling back excessive fear mongering in U.S. culture.

The U.S. President who has overseen the highest Pentagon budget in history, created drone read more

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Hillary Is A Neocon

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http://hillaryisaneocon.com

She has the record and the vision

“For this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton. The party cannot be saved, but the country still can be.” —Robert Kagan

“I have a sense that she’s one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president.” —Dick Cheney

“I’ve known her for many years now, and I respect read more

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Getting Closer to Being Sorry I Ever Promoted John Oliver

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“Finally, Fake News Done Right,” I proclaimed. John Oliver had gone after nukes, prisons, income inequality, internet censors, and climate destroyers. He has since gone after many other evils. But — apart from the nukes — as far as I’ve seen it’s never war, not at length and not briefly.

In fact, Oliver likes to joke that peace is boring, wants people to throw mangos at the head of the president of Venezuela, read more

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It's Hard Not to Be Sexist in Iowa

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No, the cornfields are not full of dumb blondes (except when Fox News shows up), but it truly is hard not to be sexist in Iowa.

For example, I think it’s reprehensible to take tens of millions of dollars from murderous kingdoms and dictatorships and then waive restrictions on selling them weapons including the weapons that Saudi Arabia has been using to slaughter men, women, and children in Yemen. And this makes me a sexist, or so I’m told.

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The Actual State of the Union, or FDR's Four Freedoms Become Obama's Four Questions

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Originally published by Telesur

President Barack Obama used his final State of the Union speech to claim that “America is leading the fight against climate change,” while in reality the United States is far and away the worst offender, per capita, in the ongoing mad race to render the earth’s climate uninhabitable. We “cut our imports of foreign oil,” Obama brags, as if earth cares what flag its pollution belches into the air under. “Gas under two bucks a gallon read more

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Quiz Answers

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1. Should German schools teach how many people Germany killed in World War II?
Yes, of course, they should. This is the one question that pretty much everyone should get right.

2. How many was it?
World War II, including war-related diseases and famines, killed some 80 million people. Excluding some 30 million killed in Asia brings the total down to 50 million. Excluding some 6 million Germans and Austrians and a half million Italians as having been killed by the Allies (though of read more

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A Quiz to See if U.S. Schools Taught You State Propaganda

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U.S. schools provide a great deal of useful information, but also leave out a great deal. Please see whether you can answer the following questions before scrolling down and clicking a link at the bottom for the answers. How many can your kids answer? Can your kids’ teachers answer them? Can your parents answer them? Can your uncle who tells you whom to vote for and what to think answer them?

These questions are not intended to comprise an ideal comprehensive course in U.S. read more

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UVA Hires Dick Cheney / Pentagon Staffer Whose Failures Include Iraq and Mitt Romney

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Eric Edelman is a former undersecretary at the Pentagon. He promotes higher military spending, an attack on Iran, and deployment of nuclear weapons to nations on Russia’s border.

He pushed for war on Iraq and accused anyone opposed of “aiding enemies,” including denouncing any sort of end date as “aiding enemies” not long before Bush and Maliki set an end date.

He pushed Obama for esclation in Afghanistan.

He’s on the board of the pro-war “U.S. Institute read more

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