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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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Waging a War on Violence in Los Angeles

Brian Center | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact

Read More: La, Street Warfare, War, Pete Carroll, A Better LA, Violence, Los Angeles, Gangs, Peace, Impact News
Brian Center

I looked at the faces in the small room and heard the voices and realized that this is war. This is why people kill each other. It was fear.

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One Term President? New York Review Blog By Garry Wills

The New York Review of Books | Garry Wills | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: President Obama, New York Review, War, Military, Iraq, Obama, Afghanistan, Books, Presidency, Barack Obama, One Year Later, Books News

Garry Wills The New York Review of Books Blog I am told by people I respect that Barack Obama cannot pull out of both Iraq and Afghanistan without be...

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Our National Journey? Get Out A Map

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Military, Foreign Policy, War, Fireside Chats, Islam, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq War, Draft, Baghdad, Obama Fireside Chats, Iraq, Politics News
Jeffrey Shaffer

While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.

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Liberia: The Real Danger is Not Spending Enough

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Rape, Massacre, Child Soldiers, Africom, Guinea, War, Ruthie Ackerman, Violence, Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Education, Military, Conflict, Colonel Moussa Dadis Camara, Job, Ceasefire, World News
Ruthie Ackerman

Conservatives will ask why during an economic recession should we spend even more money in Liberia. My answer: for the security of Liberia and the entire West African region.

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One Year Later: A Return to Normalcy

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Michelle Obama, Afghanistan, War, George W. Bush, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Recession, Afghanistan War, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Change, Pennsylvania, One Year Later, Chicago, Fox News, Obama One Year Later, Lincoln Park, Republican Party, Health Care, Guantanomo Bay, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Th Obama normalcy is a welcome relief from eight years of the Bush administration, but it is only a start. If Obama builds on this start with true reforms, much of the hope will come back.

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My Dialogue with President Obama

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Dialogue, Military Industrial Complex, Military, Lex Talionis, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, War, President Obama, Obama, Whote House, President, Equivalence, World News
Stephen C. Rose

Relax. This is a way of writing. It is imagined. The scene is a room in the White House, setting is informal. The President has asked if I prefer that and I do.

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Think It's Over Once You're 60? Check Out The Purpose Prize

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Therapy, Purpose Prize, Charity, Child Soldiers, War, The Giving Life, 9/11, New Radicals, Psychology, Uganda, September 11th, Julia Moulden, Peter-C-Alderman-Foundation, Living News
Julia Moulden

This is the true story of a couple of ordinary Americans who thought, once they turned 60, that life would be uneventful. Instead, they've just won a prestigious award that honours their world-changing work.

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Martians in New Jersey: Remembering the War of the Worlds

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Aliens, Hysteria, Anniversary, Hoax, Fake-News, War, Panic, Radio, Great Depression, Halloween, Orson Welles, New Jersey, New York News
Michael Kaplan

Orson Welles was a talented director, and, at the age of 22, a very naughty boy.

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Somalia's True Colors

K'naan | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Somalia, Mogadishu, Eastern Africa, Colors, Nature, War, Impact News
K'naan

Why do they call Mogadishu grainy, ugly and hellish? It is a difficult place, where war is tattooed on hands and tongues, but you have to have loved a place to see its true colors.

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Afghanistan: A Whole New Approach

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Capitol Hill, White House, President, Relief, President Obama, International, Indigenous, Council, Washington, War, Oxfam, Muslim Countries, Collateral Damage, Surge, America, Dick Cheney, Muslim, World Vision, Counter Insurgency, Terror, Development, Faith, History, Tragedy, Afghan Government, Democracy, Counter Terrorism, Special Forces, Religious, Terrorist, Richard Stearns, Congress, Unmanned Drones, Religious Leaders, Foreign Policy, Urgency, Moral Issues, Occupier, Arab, Taliban, Military, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Humanitarian Assistance, D.C., Casualties, Faith-Based, World News
Jim Wallis

When you massively intervene in a country as much as the U.S. has in Afghanistan, you can't responsibly just walk away. We must lead with what works -- development.

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Rock Band OAR Asks America to Open Up Your Arms -- and Focus on What Matters

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iava, Afghanistan, Veterans, Campaign, War, Iraq, O.a.R., Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

With the noise clogging the media landscape, it's hard to get the public to pay attention to anything important. Fortunately, some extremely talented musicians are working to change that.

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Is Obama Keeping His Promises?

Newsweek | Anna Quindlen | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, White House, War, Immigration, Obama, Campaign, Presidency, Barack Obama, President, Promises, History, Gay Rights, Campaign Promises, Spending, Analysis, Wall Street, Health Care, Promise, Politics News

History will judge Barack Obama over the long haul. But we've learned something in the short term that is simple, obvious, and has less to do with him...

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Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Pentagon, Troops, Medicare for All, Rumor Mongering, Guantanamo, Monopoly, Reform, Alan Grayson, Dscc, Pentagon Budget, Roger Ailes, Nixonian, Charles Schumer, President, Magic, Military, Bailout, Emanuel, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Ailes, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Reid, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Democrat, Congress, Playing the Victim, Close Gitmo Now, Rumor, Stage Magic, Democrats, Barack Obama, Rage Against the Machine, Executive Compensation, Calls, Schumer, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Wasted, Health, Weiner, Harry Reid, Nixon, Healthcare, Senate, Orchestra Pit Theory, President Obama, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Fox, Obama, Democratic, Media, Grayson, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Pelosi, Snowe, Enemy, Organizing for America, Misdirect, Guantanamo Bay, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Orchestra Pit, Victim, Robust Public Option, Anthony Weiner, Trigger, Trust Busting, House, Tom Morello, Victim Card, War, Ad, Opt Out, 1000 Hours, Defense Appropriations, Enemy of America, Misdirection, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, 300000, Fox News, Medicare, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Torture, Morello, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.

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Historic Day: Obama Signs Advance VA Funding into Law

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Iava, Military, Va, Homelessness, Veteran, Afghanistan, War Wire, War, Advance Appropriations, Iraq, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

Rey Leal has fought on the streets of Fallujah; for mental health care in south Texas; and in Washington, for a solution to years of late veterans' health care budgets. Today, Rey and millions of veterans have won their fight.

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The Twin Brother of Annihilation

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: World War I, Time Magazine, Nuclear Weapons, Doomsday Clock, War, Nobel Peace Prize, Russell-Einstein Manifesto, World War II, Mutually Assured Destruction, Albert Einstein, World News
Robert Koehler

The argument: In a world held hostage by nuclear weapons, there are smaller aggregate numbers of war dead; therefore, God bless nukes. Or maybe not.

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Cheney: Stop The "Dithering" As Troops Face Danger

AP | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Cheney, Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama, War, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday night accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanis...

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What Is Patriotism?

Janet Ritz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Patriotism, Unemployment, The Environmentalist, Economy, War, Health Care Reform, Green News, Climate Change, Afghanistan, Health Care, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Corruption, Congress, Politics News
Janet Ritz

President Obama may deserve criticism. But trying to undermine his presidency, his legitimacy, his personal safety, especially in a time of war, is unpatriotic at best.

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Obsessions: Small and Monstrous

Thomas Scheff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq War, Obsession, Anger, Wwi, Compulsion, War, Delusion, Humiliation, Living News
Thomas Scheff

Humiliation can spiral to the point that it haunts us. Emotions, at their core, are bodily states of arousal. It is bodily arousal over which one has no direct control that makes the obsession painful and compulsive.

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Afghanistan: An Election Without Results

Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, 2009, Election, Abdullah, Afghan Election, Hamid Karzai, Kandahar, Kabul, Election Fraud, Fraud, Terrorism, War, Tension, Us, Un, World News
Abdulhadi Hairan

Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.

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Was "Ardi" a Liberal?

Frans de Waal | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Bonobos, Evolution, Fossils, War, Chimpanzee, Politics News
Frans de Waal

What if we descend, not from a blustering chimp-like ancestor, but from a gentle, bonobo-like ape? What if we share characteristics with both of these relatives instead of the one favored by our political ideology?

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Drugs: Losing the Longest War

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Durgs, Marijuana, Los Zetas, War, Addiction, Failure, Policy, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Politics News
Michael Kaplan

On October 14, 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs ... again. There have been one or two conflicts in human history that lasted longer -- though we'd better win this before 2012, or we'll find ourselves alone in a league with the Hundred Years' War.

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Afghan Troop Request Hides Real Numbers

Jeff Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Pentagon, Counterterrorism, Afghanistan, Counter-Insurgency, War, Obama, stanley_mcchrystal, Frontline, 60_minutes, celeste_ward, john_nagl, World News
Jeff Stein

Despite grim new portraits of U.S. fortunes in Afghanistan, Washington's debate over troop levels continues unhinged from reality.

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Women Warriors: Supporting She 'Who Has Borne the Battle'

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veteran, Women, Iava, Homelessness, War, Va, Military, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sexual Assault, War Wire, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

After honorably fighting overseas, female veterans shouldn't have to wage new battles once they get home. And they should be treated like heroes, not candy stripers.

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Achilles and the Dodgers

Gershon Hepner | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home

Read More: LA Dodgers, Iliad, Peace, War, Philadelphia Phillies, Home News
Gershon Hepner

ACHILLES AND THE DODGERS Putting Agamemnon down as sack of wine, with dog's eyes and the heart of deer, Achilles anticipates the way the Dodgers too...

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