Peaceful, Market Alternatives to the Drug War?

I seemed to have missed this last week: The presidents of  the Latin American countries attending the eighth summit meeting of the Tuxtla System for Dialogue approved a formal request to the United States and other drug consuming countries that they curb drug...

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‘Misguided and Extreme Views’ on Israel

Last week I noted in a post that according to "a report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council" the "so-called Gaza buffer zone imposed by Israel" - essentially anything close to 300 meters from the northern fence area - is like no man's land. In 2010, 40...

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Mission in Afghanistan Failing on Every Front

This is a commendable job by al Jazeera journalist Sami Zeidan interviewing U.S. Army Lieutenant General and Commander of the NATO Training Mission William Caldwell. The Lt. Gen. stumbled and bumbled over the embarrassing hard facts Zeidan puts forth, and had no...

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Pentagon Cuts “Jobs”

The Washington Post reports that, as a result of the automatic cuts imposed by the debt deal, the Pentagon is cutting - or, to use their overly dramatic term, "slashing" - about 8,700 jobs from the Defense Department: The Army said Thursday it is moving forward with...

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A Peaceful Warrior Lives On in Us

My dad died nine years ago this week. Talking about waging nonviolence and little insurrections. In life, as in dying, my dad was a peaceful warrior. In the fall of 2002, after months of feeling lousy and only very slowly healing from hip surgery, Phil Berrigan,...

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Bahraini Activist on U.S.-Supported Repression

Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy interviewed Nabeel Rajab, president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Here are some of his remarks: The military has taken part in suppressing the protests. They have killed people, they have tortured people, they have arrested people,...

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To Mark This Solemn Day, I’m Having a Luau

Today's hardest-hitting news story: "You'll Never Guess What The Obama Kids' School Is Serving For Lunch Today." Don't care? Well, you should. It's a "heavily Japanese-inspired menu, which includes Asian mushroom and oriental noodle soup, garlic roasted edamame,...

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