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Cameron's Avatar: Jar Jar Binks Meets Pocahontas

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 12.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: White Man's Burden, Science Fiction, Aliens, Mother Earth, James Cameron, Militarism, Disney, Noble Savage, Imperialism, Avatar, New Age Spirituality, Evolution, Entertainment News
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.

All of James Cameron's films after The Abyss increasingly resemble the Hindenburg: bloated, self-indulgent, lacking originality and subtlety in all but F/X. Avatar is the culmination of these -- with CGI.

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Who's the Government? Who's the God?

Reverend Billy | Posted 12.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Militarism, Consumerism, Nativity, Copenhagen 2009, Culture, Bill Clinton, Christmas, Obama, China, Cold War, Green News
Reverend Billy

The secrecy and isolation of the Chinese/Obama meetings says it all. The rest of us are waiting outside with the rising seas and the fires and droughts and freak storms.

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When Militarism 'Invades' Medicine...Doctatorship Happens

Dana Ullman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Homeopathic, Military, Physicians, Military Industrial Complex, Weapons of Mass Destruction, War, Side Effects, Natural Medicine, Militarism, Collateral Damage, Medicine, Homeopathy, Health, Living News
Dana Ullman

Our medical thinking has become totally militaristic. It is not just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to attack illness, combat disease, kill infective agents, and create a war on cancer.

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Introducing Dialogues Against Militarism

Stephen Funk | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Against, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Militarism, Dialogues, Peace, Ivaw, World News
Stephen Funk

Dialogues Against Militarism hopes to connect antiwar activists and war resisters from the US with those in Israel/Palestine to work more collectively against the militarism of our societies.

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Reaction to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is Another "Teaching Moment"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, President Obama, John Bolton, Ruth Marcus, President Barack Obama, G. Gordon Liddy, Iraq, Militarism, USS Abraham Lincoln, Nobel Peace Prize, Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, Unilateralism, Jim Lehrer, David Brooks, Newshour, President George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Obama Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Peace, Obama's Nobel Prize, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Are we incapable of recognizing the simple fact that it is much better for America to have a president who is admired and respected in the world than one who is despised and feared?

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Winners Lose

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Militarism, Robert Draper, Robert Gates, New-Paradigm, Losing, Winning, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The situation in Afghanistan is serious. We're getting "out-governed" by an enemy so ruthless it's bringing services to a desperate people ignored by ...

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ReThinking The Iron Giant: Cold War Anti-Gun Fun...For Kids!

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Children, War, Gun Control, Militarism, The Iron Giant, Cold War, Movie Reviews, Rethink Reviews, Jonathan Kim, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Brad Bird, Kids, Film Critic, Kids Movies, Anti-Gun, Movie Critic, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

What's an anti-violence parent/babysitter to do? Isn't there a kids' movie out there that's fun and adventurous while advocating non-violence?

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Can We Stop Being a Superpower, Please?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Superpower, Militarism, Superpowers, US Russia Relations, Military Industrial Complex, Cold War, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

A group of misguided neocon gunslingers led the U.S. to a catastrophe. Have we come to the point where disillusionment will lead us where we need to go: the end of playing the superpower role?

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Reading The Pictures: Lara Logan And The Predator

Michael Shaw | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media

Read More: 60 Minutes Predator, Current Events, War, Militarism, Media, Cbs, Predator, Air Force, Drones, Las Vegas, Foreign Policy, Nevada, Politics, Defense, Military, Afghanistan, Target Practice, 60 Minutes, Sexy, Lara Logan, Lara Logan Drones, Media News
Michael Shaw

2009-05-14-lauralogan_shaw_fp.jpgWhat better way for 60 Minutes to shill for the military than to soften the reality of hell-from-the-sky by focusing on the lovely Lara Logan from 10,000 feet?

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Diplomacy To Be Used Toward Same Militaristic Ends

antiwar.com | Doug Bandow | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

Read More: Clinton, Obama Secretary of State, Obama Clinton, President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Militarism, Bush Unilateralism, Diplomacy, Secretary of State Clinton, Obama Diplomacy, Hilary Clinton, Unilateral Politics, Secretary of State, Barack Obama Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama President, International Relations, Clinton Diplomacy, Israel, Clinton Secretary of State, China, World News

Much of the world has greeted the transfer of power from President George W. Bush to President Barack Obama with sighs of relief if not shouts of joy....

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Why Save Capitalism?

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Counterculture, Greed, Economy, Psychology, Spirituality and Consumerism, Militarism, Love, Spirituality, Sermon on the Mount, Business News
Stephen Mo Hanan

Consumers everywhere are in revolt. Not so much from choice as necessity. But what if we noticed that paying attention to real people was more rewarding than shopping or TV?

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Stop Dreaming Joe Biden and Democrats and Do the Right Thing

Joe Lauria | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Europe, US Military, Dreams, Marshall Plan, Cia, Georgia, Russia, Militarism, Joe Biden, Permanent Bases, Barack Obama, Democratic Convention, Joe Biden Convention, Joe Biden Convention Speech, Politics News
Joe Lauria

Europe has had public health care, free universities and a greener economy for decades now. But in America we still dream of such things. Joe Biden couldn't stay away from the word.

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Why Bush Has Won in Iraq and the Rest of Us Have Lost

Joe Lauria | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Scoop Jackson, Jimmy Carter, Iraq, Militarism, Hillary Clinton, Bush, Mike Gravel, Iraq War, Politics News
Joe Lauria

A Political Odyssey is a parallel history of Mike Gravel's political career and the rise of the American military industry, the expansion of US territory and the growth of presidential power.

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