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Department of Peace

There are bills before the Senate and Congress to create a Dept. of Peace. I don’t think we can afford not to do this.  Check out the Peace Alliance for more info.
Waging Peace: Boston Globe Op-ed
By Marianne Williamson
November 16, 2006
THE FBI recently reported that the United States is facing a wave of murders and gun […]

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War is a Racket excerpt

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate […]

Did ya hear this

“Mr. Speaker, We make war with such certainty, yet we are befuddled how to create peace. This paradox requires reflection, if we are to survive. Making and endorsing war demands a secret love of death, a fearful desire to embrace annihilation. Creating peace requires the mirror of compassion, putting ourselves in the other person’s place, […]

Putin rejects Bush’s Iraq democracy model

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a suggestion from U.S. President George W. Bush that his country should emulate democracy in Iraq.
During a joint news conference Saturday in St. Petersburg, Bush said he raised concerns about democracy in Russia during a frank discussion with the Russian leader.
“I talked about my […]

Oil

So, yesterday I was listening to the Randi Rhodes show. She was talking to Greg Palast about the election in Mexico. Which is very interesting and some key Busheys have been “helping out” in Mexico. I came in on the end of it. But, Bush wants the guy that wants to corporatize Mexico’s oil. […]

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Protection

“We’re making progress, and we’re not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman is protected . . . protected in the courts, protected in the Constitution, but most of all, protected for the people and for the future of our children in this society,” Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) said after the […]

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Is Bush a Lunatic

By Molly Ivins, AlterNet
I hate to raise such an ugly possibility, but have you considered lunacy as an explanation Craziness would make a certain amount of sense.
 I mean, you announce you are going to militarize the Mexican border, but you assure the president of Mexico you are not militarizing the border. […]