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In the Name of Hope: Perpetual War and the Nobel Peace Prize

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1984, War on Terror, Hope, Pakistan, Nobel Peace Prize, Iraq, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Geir Lundestad, Peace Prize Response, Superpower, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Politics News
Hamdan Azhar

If the Nobel Peace Prize Committee tells us that war is compatible with peace, who are we to say otherwise?

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A Revolution of Values, Bearing Witness to the Death of Our Rights

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Protests, Cindy Sheehan, Olympics, Lrad, g20, Pittsburgh, Anti-War, Politics News
Jeanine Molloff

"Am I calling for an armed insurrection? Hardly, and only because I don't think it's possible or probable that an armed revolution would be successful..." said Sheehan.

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Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox

Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: War on Afghanistan, First Amendment, President Obama, Teabaggers, Chicago, Progressives, Phil Donahue, 9/11, Peace, America, Journalism, Msnbc, Infrastructure, Social Media, Corporate Media, Washington Post, State Senator Obama, Rick Sanchez, Fox, War on Iraq, Jessie Jackson, Washington DC, Netherlands, Barack Obama, Fourth Estate, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Fox News, Cnn, 9/12, Saddam Hussein, Military Industrial Complex, Tv, Protests, Iraq War, Conservative Right, Glenn Beck, Conservatives, Spain, Media News
Linda Milazzo

In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.

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Is "Escalation" the Right Word?

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Counterterrorism, National Security, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Escalation, Progressives, Defense Department, State Department, Counterinsurgency, Al Qaeda, Anti-War, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

Seeking an alternative to the word "escalation" to describe U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, I asked deployed or recently back friends and they each offered a different answer.

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The Exit Strategy We Need at Home

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Usaid, National Security, Pakistan, Stanley McChrystal, Us Government, Senator Feingold, Admiral Mike Mullen, James McGovern, US Army, Cold War, State Department, Anti-War, Afghanistan War, World News
Lorelei Kelly

No matter how much we love and trust the U.S. military, the American face to the world cannot be wearing a uniform.

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Protesters Want UC Berkeley Law Professor Fired

AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: UC Berkeley, John Yoo, Torture, Anti-War, Politics News

BERKELEY, Calif. — Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who c...

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Got MLK? Remembering King as an Anti-war Icon

Randall Amster | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, History, Politics, Martin Luther King, Mlk, Peace, Vietnam War, Anti-War, Pro-Peace, Civil Rights Movement, Anti-War Activism, Mlk Speeches, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr Speech, MLK Pro-Peace, Mlk Vietnam, Anti-Vietnam, Politics News
Randall Amster

Let us remember Martin Luther King, Jr. not only as a champion of racial equality and economic justice, but also as an icon of anti-war and pro-peace sensibilities.

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Death of an American Hero

Bob Ostertag | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, US Military, Conscientious Objector, Military, Anti-War Movement, Vietnam War, Vietnam, Iraq, Anti-War, Tom Bernard, Politics News
Bob Ostertag

Tom Bernard was one of the WORMS (We Openly Resist Military Stupidity), one of the many thousands of American servicemen and women who actively opposed the Vietnam war.

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This (Old) News Just In... Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Study Group, Iraq War, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Private Contractors, Richard Danzig, Blackwater Iraq, Iraq Occupation, New York Times, Iraq, Residual Force, Barack Obama, Colin Kahl, Anti-War, Obama Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq Withdrawal, Obama Iraq, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

Some people seem to just now be waking up to the fact that Obama never had a comprehensive plan to fully end the occupation. Obama never defined "ending the war" as removing all U.S. forces from Iraq.

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He's the President, Stupid

Beau Friedlander | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, House Negro, Military Industrial Complex, Clinton, Centrist-Left, George W. Bush, Hawk, Obama, Ted Kaczynski, Barack Obama, Center-Left, Uncle Tom, Anti-War, Field Negro, Dwight Eisenhower, Clintonista, Bill Ayers, Malcolm X, Somalia, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Ralph Nader, Politics News
Beau Friedlander

Obama's peace train is on tracks that have led to the same place since Eisenhower first told America to beware the military-industrial complex.

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Thousands March In Protest Against War at DNC

Hunter Weeks | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Democratic Convention, March, Democratic National Convention, Peace, Denver, Protest, War, Anti-War, Home News
Hunter Weeks

Thousands of vocal Denver citizens showed up to express their disapproval for the war. I marched with them and caught some of the scene. The feelin...

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Al From Is Wrong... Again

Tom Andrews | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Barack Obama. DLC, Evan Bayh, Vice President, Vp, Al From, Obama, Iraq, 2008 Election, War in Iraq, Anti-War, Politics News
Tom Andrews

For years, the Democratic Leadership Council has been warning us about dangers of being associated with progressive values, ideas and policies. Time and again, their advice has proven disastrous.

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Clinton and Obama Silence On Winter Soldier Divides Progressives

Christine Escobar | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Christopher Hayes, The Nation, Election 2008, Progressive Democrats of America, Barack Obama, Momocrats, Hillary Clinton, Anti-War, The Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, John Kerry, Obama Centrism, Progressive Values, Darcy Burner Iraq, John Kerry Iraq War, Clinton Iraq War Policy, Samantha Power Obama, Christopher Hayes the Nation, Common Dreams, End Iraq War, Progressives for Obama, Clinton Winter Soldier, Barbara Ehrenreich Endorsement Obama, Samantha Power Iraq War, Democrats Policy Iraq War, Progressive Endorsements Obama, Danny Glover, John Kerry War Iraq, John Kerry Endorsement Obama, Progressive Movement, Barbara Ehrenreich, End Iraq War Obama, Hillary Clinton Iraq War Policy, Samantha Power, Barack Obama Iraq War Policy, Endorsements End Iraq War, Clinton Centrism, John Kerry Iraq Obama, Tom Hayden, Danny Glover Endorsement Obama, End Iraq War Clinton, Tom Hayden Endorsement Obama, Stephen Zunes, Obama Winter Soldier, Obama Iraq War Policy, Bill Fletcher Endorsement Obama, Bill Fletcher, Home News
Christine Escobar

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have yet to acknowledge the Iraq withdrawal plan crafted by members of their own party, and it appears there is little pressure from the press to question them on it.

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Was Encounter With Cheney A Touch, A Slap Or A Shove?

LA Times | DeeDee Correll | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cheney Secret Service, Cheney Colorado Man, Anti-War Movement, Cheney Assault, Anti-War, Cheney, Dick Cheney, Politics News

No one can agree on what exactly happened the day a Colorado man spotted Dick Cheney strolling the streets of a ski resort town and decided to give th...

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Bruce Springsteen's Bloody New Anti-War CD

Fox News | Roger Friedman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bruce Springsteen Magic, Anti-War, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

Bruce Springsteen has already made his political feelings clear in the last couple of years. Remember his Ted Koppel interview? The series of concerts...

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Emmys Censor Sally Field's Anti-War Statement

Los Angeles Times | Tom O'Neil | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Emmys, Sally Field, Anti-War, Home News

"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" Emmy winner Sally Field said before the Emmycast cut her off her sound and pointed the camer...

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MoveOn.org Flexes Its Muscle Amid Iraq War Debate

The New York Times | MICHAEL LUO and JEFF ZELENY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Progressive, Liberal, Democratic Party, MoveOn.Org, Democrats, Anti-War, Home News

There is no mistaking the influence of MoveOn.org, with its 3.2 million members and powerful fund-raising apparatus, within the Democratic Party. Thi...

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