Bruce Kent is Vice President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and of Pax Christi, and of the Movement for the Abolition
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The University of Virginia research park, across Rt. 29 North from the National Ground Intelligence Center, is hosting a conference on weapons technologies that has been promoted as dealing with economically beneficial matters.
And why not? Both the military facility and the research park provide jobs, and the people who hold those jobs spend their money on things that support other jobs. What’s not to like?
Well, one problem is what those jobs do. A Win/Gallup poll
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Daniel Hyslop is research manager at the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) where he coordinates research and manages
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A unique conference is planned in Charlottesville, Va., featuring the latest technologies for the practice of large-scale killing. The Daily Progress tells us that,
“to allow participants to speak more freely about potentially sensitive topics, the conference is closed to the media and open only to registered participants.”
Well I should think so! Registered participants? How does one get registered for such a thing?
“From a local perspective, this industry is really growing in
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Renato M. Reyes, Jr. (pictured at right) is secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan). He has been with the organization since 2001. He was also the founding chair of the youth group Anakbayan in 1998. He blogs here and was involved in protests when U.S. President Barack Obama recently visited the Philippines. I asked him about it.
Was Obama unwelcomed in the Philippines?
The PH government rolled out the red carpet for Obama. In the streets however, thousands marched to protest Obama’s
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