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Build, Don't Destroy in Afghanistan: An Open Letter to President Obama

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Strike, President Obama, Civil, International, Indigenous, Washington, Pakistan, War, United Nations, Campaign, Muslim Countries, Collateral Damage, Surge, Prayer, America, Muslim, Conflict, Un, Terror, Technology, Security, Development, History, Afghan Government, Democracy, Fear, Terrorist, Ngos, Unmanned Drones, Religious Leaders, Engagement, Death, Foreign Policy, Moral Values, Occupier, Extremists, Moral Issues, Deaths, Women, Escalation, Faith Community, Economic Support, Taliban, Military, Afghanistan, General Assembly, Terrorism, Humanitarian Assistance, D.C., Casualties, Faith-Based, World News
Jim Wallis

Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.

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Let Peace On Earth Begin With Me And You

Joann Davis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Holidays, God, Courage, Relationships, Peace on Earth, Hatred, Authenticity, Prayer, Diplomacy, Forgiveness, Peace, The Giving Life, War, Living News
Joann Davis

But in our spectator society, where it's easier to watch reality tv than live our own authentic and vibrant life, small, personal acts are sometimes overlooked and minimized.

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Billie Jean in Baghdad

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, Michael Jackson, This Is It, Michael Jackson Death, Middle East, Iraq Violence, Iraq War, War in Iraq, War, Iraqi, Refugee, Iraq, Syria, Michael Jackson Movie, Teenagers, Entertainment News
Kathryn Schulz

For every five people who have read Lolita in Tehran, roughly a billion have tried, in the privacy of their own rooms, to master the moonwalk.

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The New Surge: Overcoming Poverty in America

Douglas Forbes | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Child Poverty, Department of Defense, Homelessness, US Poverty, War, Family Promise, The Heritage Foundation, Doug Forbes, Impact News
Douglas Forbes

The population of New York, Florida and Washington D.C. combined represents the number of Americans who must currently choose between food or gas, between a doctor's visit or an electric bill... between life and death.

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To Give Is To Gain: Bobby Sager's Philosophy Of Philanthropy

Michael Macher | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Darfur, Sting, Philanthropy, Afganistan, Charity, Developing Countries, The Power of the Invisible Sun, Children, The Giving Life, War, Donna Karan, Bobby Sager, Travel, Development, Rwanfa, Triumph, Living News
Michael Macher

Bobby Sager is on a mission to change our understanding of what it means to give. Rather than teach an ethics of guilt, he shows how we might use philanthropy as a strategy for leading a fuller life.

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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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War Dead and Differential Grief

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq, Grief, War, War Wire, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

This year we have lost a total of 429 soldiers, an average of 1.2 per day, every day of the year, or the equivalent of a Ford Hood every 11 days. We should all ponder that.

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News
David A. Love

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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Fighting a War With Someone Else's Children

Dan Agin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Congress, Obama, Afghanistan, War, Politics News
Dan Agin

Fighting any war without the public sacrifice of a universal draft is an unjust misery for military personnel and their families. If war is necessary, if you want war, risk yourself or your children and grandchildren in combat.

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Navy SEAL Photos In New Book, "SEAL: The Unspoken Sacrifice" (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Stephanie Freid-Perenchio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Slideshow, Navy Seals, Seals, War, Veterans Day, New Books, Books, Military Families, Photography, War Photos, Photos, Books News
Stephanie Freid-Perenchio

After the events of 9/11, I realized that the world of Navy SEALs was still shrouded in secrecy. I wanted to explore and shed light upon this culture that most people had never seen nor fully understood.

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Veterans Day: The Best War Movies Of All Time

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Slidepoll, Best War Movies, War Films, War, War Movies, Veterans Day, Entertainment News

In honor of Veterans Day, we're taking a look at some classic war films that best define the heroism, horrors, camaraderie, and honor you find in war....

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Delusional Self-Defense, Delusional Congressional Vote

Noura Erakat | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, House of Representatives, Gaza, War, Violence, Obama, Israel, Self-Defense, World News
Noura Erakat

Rather than condemn Israel's act of aggression, Congress added its name to a pungent piece of manipulative delusion: that Israel's onslaught of Gaza constituted an act of self-defense.

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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 11.20.2009 | Books

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