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Obama's War and Remembrance Day

Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2012 Election, Afghanistan Escalation, President Obama, Afghanistan War, Armistice Day, Veteran's Day, Politics News
Dave Lindorff

It is, I would suggest, time for progressives to start searching for a serious, gutsy, plain-speaking candidate to challenge Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2012.

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Veterans Day: How Many Days are Enough

Jim Thomas | Posted 11.11.2009 | Denver

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Jim Thomas

More so even than the debt the nation owes our veterans, I owe two vets, my parents, for my existence and for inspiring my accomplishments.

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Veteran's Day Quotes: 15 Best, Most Famous Remembrance Day Sayings

Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

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Veteran's Day Quotes are not hard to come by, but here's a compilation of some of the best and most famous in one place. "Freedom is never free." -...

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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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Armistice Day, the Great War, and Brains: A Tale of Woe

Dan Agin | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Neuropsychiatry, Shell-Shock, War, Armistice Day, World War I, Electroshock Therapy, Veterans Day, Politics News
Dan Agin

Had the politicians of various countries been obligated to live in combat on the front lines, it's doubtful that the ferocious carnage of the First World war would have occurred.

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Soft Power is Obama's Greatest Strength

Indra Adnan | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dialogue, Terrorists, Pakistan, Joseph Nye, New Administration, Violence, Obama, Iran, Media, Pacifism, Peace, Barack Obama, Fake News, Iraq War, Armistice Day, Smart Power, Activism, Dennis Kucinich, Soft Power, Non-Violence, Participation, Politics News
Indra Adnan

Perhaps all that is needed is a good role model for soft power: someone who seeks to engage rather than stand off, capable of dialogue not just debate.

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Obama's America: Observing the Observance of Veterans Day

William Bradley | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Annapolis, Barack Obama, Vietnam, George W. Bush, Veterans Day, Dick Cheney, Jim Webb, Iraq, Afghanistan, Marine Corps, Navy, New GI Bill, John McCain, Armistice Day, Politics News
William Bradley

Barack Obama has never worn the uniform. Yet he has more rapport with the experience of the American veteran than the Republicans who are now in the process of relinquishing power to him and his allies.

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