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Ex-Child Soldiers Released From Nepalese Detention Camp

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 01.07.2010 | Impact

Read More: Mao, Soldiers, Maoist, Children, Detention Camp, Maoist Rebels, Child Soldiers, Nepal, War, Impact News

DUDHAULI, Nepal — Scores of former child soldiers, many in tears, boarded buses Thursday for home, leaving a jungle detention camp where they ha...

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Afghanistan Rights Monitor Reports Afghan War Kills 3 Children A Day

AFP | Lynne O'Donnell | Posted 01.07.2010 | World

Read More: Afghan War, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan War Children, Afghanistan, War, Afghanistan Rights Monitor, World News

Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afg...

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Congo Volcano Still Active: Goma Planning While Lava Flow Approaches Road

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 01.07.2010 | World

Read More: Nyamulagira, Democratic Republic of Congo, Virunga Park, United Nations, War, Goma, Tongo Chimps, Masisi, Humanitarian Crisis, Monuc, Emmanuel De Merode, Congo, Volcano, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Friends and officials in Goma are reporting that the Nyamulagira volcano is still erupting and that the water supplies and air are contaminated with soot.

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PBS' 'This Emotional Life': Living With PTSD

Posted 01.04.2010 | Living

Read More: Stress, Mental Health, PBS' This Emotional Life, Relationships, War, Ptsd, The Inner Life, Military Families, Family, Living News

Bob, a veteran of the Iraq War, explains the toll his experience with PTSD has taken on his life. Hear more of Bob's story - and learn more about PTSD - at This Emotional Life.

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Afghanistan War Strategy Faces Mounting Challenges In Year Ahead

thehill.com | Posted 01.02.2010 | World

Read More: United States Military, U.S. Military, Afghanistan, President Obama, War, Afghanistan War Strategy, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, World News

President Barack Obama met a key domestic goal by getting healthcare reform passed in the Senate by Christmas, but reaching the point where U.S. troop...

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Peace On Earth

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 01.01.2010 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Obama, Lies, Wall Street, Peace, Stock Market, War, Politics News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

It's not going to happen here in the United States -- peace -- not in this coming year, not in my lifetime, or in many lifetimes.

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My New Year's Resolution: No to Nicking Knickers

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 12.31.2009 | World

Read More: Nicking, Lebanon, Yemen, Suicide Bombers, Gaza, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Pakistan, Terrorism, War, Violence, Airport Security, Detroit-Michigan, Knickers, Al Qaeda, Underwear Bomber, Intelligence, Underwear, Bombing, Syria, Abdulmutallab, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

The continued bombardments of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Pakistan and Yemen are not giving us the peace and security we crave. In fact, the result is to the contrary.

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Bright Sun. Blue Sky. The Laughter of Children. Just For One Day. In Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 12.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq War, Shock-and-Awe, Afghanistan, Peace, Barack Obama, War, Living News
Jesse Kornbluth

As 2010 begins, I am plunged into a fresh gloom. Wouldn't it be nice if -- like the Christmas Armistice of 1914 -- the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq simply stopped. A truce that lasted a day, that wouldn't rock the world.

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Will Coal Power Plants be the Berlin Wall of the Future?

David Kroodsma | Posted 12.29.2009 | Green

Read More: History, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Hopenhagen, Climate Change, War, Hopenhagen Ambassador, Berlin Wall, Nazi, Global Warming, Berlin, Green News
David Kroodsma

At the Brandenburg gate, which once sat in "no-man's land" between East and West Berlin, I wondered if, 20 years from now, abandoned coal power plants will be nothing more than museums.

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The Decade At War (PHOTOS)

Vanity Fair | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Photos, Photography, Windows on the Wars, War, 9/11, War Photographs, War Pictures, Afghanistan War, Decade in War, War Photos, Iraq War, Decade at War, Pictures, Politics News

A decade ago, America was flush and at peace. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the retaliatory invasion of Afghanistan, and the controversial ...

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SOLDIER TO POET: An Exchange

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Exchange, Conversation, Soldier, Carol Muske-Dukes, Poet, Lt. Colonel Edward Ledford, West Point, Literature, Marines, Afghanistan, War, Hamlet, Aeneid, Poetry, Politics News
Carol Muske-Dukes

We cannot get away from the romanticism of war -- indeed, we romanticize it every day, even as we curse the notion. And this war is epic, to be sure. Think back to the first act in this play.

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Holy Wars, Just Wars, and No Wars

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.17.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Movement, Holy Wars, Pacifism, Barack Obama, War, World News
Deepak Chopra

There are three principles governing President Obama's foreign policy outlook: holy wars are always unjust, just wars exist, and peace is an ultimate goal.

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The Reality of PTSD

Craig Barnes | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam, Ptsd, War, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health, Politics News
Craig Barnes

After winning his third Silver Star, my friend Burt disintegrated. War and destruction had taken the innards out of the man. Are these "childish evasions"?

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Determining a "Just War" in 2009, 1906, and 412 AD

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Obama Peace Prize, History, St. Augustine, Rome, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech, War, Politics News
Lapham's Quarterly

In December of 1906, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he made these remarks to Congress in that same month.

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Tony Blair: Would Have Invaded Iraq Without WMD

The Guardian | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq WMD, Saddam Hussein, Wmd, Tony Blair, War, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq War, Iraq, Parliament, World News

Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to p...

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Obama's Just War and Deaf Ears

Sunil Adam | Posted 12.15.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Terrorism, War, Just War, Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Christianity, Hegel, World News
Sunil Adam

The "just war" theory essentially seeks to reconcile Jesus Christ's turn-the-other-cheek principle with the secular need of nations to wage war.

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Keep Your Eyes on the Peace Prize

Randall Amster | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Nobel Peace Prize, Gandhi, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, Peace, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech, Barack Obama, War, Politics News, World News
Randall Amster

Almost 45 years ago to the day, Martin Luther King gave his Nobel acceptance speech, and flatly contradicted Obama's reasoning and conclusion that war is a necessary practice.

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Mr. President, War Is Not Peace

Norman Solomon | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kabul, Nobel Address, President Obama, War, Oslo, Stanley McChrystal, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Jody Williams, Politics News
Norman Solomon

From President Obama, we hear that peace is the ultimate goal. But "peace" is a fixture on a strategic horizon that keeps moving as the military keeps marching.

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ReThink Review: Brothers -- the War Drama Curse Continues

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, Natalie Portman, Movie Review, Jim Sheridan, Afghanistan, Jake Gyllenhaal, War, Rethink Reviews, Iraq, Jonathan Kim, Tobey Maguire, Brothers, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

So far, Hollywood's attempts at making movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been failures, usually critically but always financially.

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Afghanistan: A Broken Promise to Military Families

Richard Allen Smith | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stop-Loss, Dwell Time, Robert Gates, War, Deployments, Iraq, Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Richard Allen Smith

For the last several years, our Armed Forces have been plagued by a lack of what is known as dwell time -- the amount of time Soldiers have at home with their families between deployments.

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Time for Strategic Stamina

Will Marshall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Democrats, Michael Moore, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Af-Pak, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, War, Cold War, Democrats, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Will Marshall

President Obama now has a difficult sales job to perform. In essence, his message will be: we need to get in deeper to get out of Afghanistan sooner. He's right.

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Obama's War: The Next Best Steps in Afghanistan?

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Gen. Stanley McCrystal, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, President Barack Obama, Afghan War, US Aid, War, West Point, State Department, Afganistan, U.S. Military, Gen-Stanley-Mccrystal, Afghan Taliban, Us Troops Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

Both military and civilian leaders need to revisit their management and cooperation efforts, and better define their "jobs" if any progress is to be made.

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The Hollow Politics of Escalation

Norman Solomon | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Timetables, Escalation, War, Benchmarks, New York Times, Afghanistan, I. F. Stone, David Obey, Jack Reed, Politics News
Norman Solomon

An underlying conceit of the new spin about benchmarks and timetables for Afghanistan is the notion that pivotal events there can be choreographed from Washington.

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Afghanistan Nightmare: the Only Light in this Dark Tunnel

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Lies, Nightmare, Martin Luther King, A Dream, War, Mccain, Obama, Afghanistan, Poetry, Politics News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

The dream of Obama is now dead. He has turned out to be, as I had begun to fear a few months back, really just like the others that came before him.

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Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: My Lai, Evelyn Theiss, Citizen Journalism, War Wire, War, Ron Haeberle, Civilian Casualties, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seymour Hersh, Veterans, War Crimes, Soldiers, Army, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Ohio, Ronald Haeberle, Media News, U.S. Army, William Calley, Citizen Journalists, Media News
David Quigg

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

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