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“While Moody’s is saying that the U.S. could lose its gold-plated AAA credit rating if the budget deficit is not reduced, President Obama is requesting $33,000,000,000 FY 2010 supplemental to fund the troop buildup in Afghanistan.
This is in addition to the war-funding budget for 2011 of $159,300,000,000.
What can this huge sum accomplish?…”

Author: Peter G. Cohen, artist and activist, veteran of W.W.II
Published in: Huntington News Network in West Virginia (home page: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/) and at BuzzFlash.com (http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3039)
Date: March 5 and 6, 2010

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“The situation of Iran is best seen on a map. On one side is Iraq, with which they fought a long and bloody war, now in transition and still with thousands of American troops and military bases. On the other side is Afghanistan with a war raging between American forces and the Taliban. Less than 800 miles away at the nearest point is nuclear-armed, paranoid Israel vigorously promoting a war between Iran and the United States….”

Author: Peter G. Cohen, artist and activist, author of the website www.nukefreeworld.com
Published in: Fort Mill Times in Fort Mill, South Carolina, and at Huntington News Network in West Virginia (home page: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/)
Date: February 27, 2010

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“Nuclear terrorism and the possibility of a nuclear weapon unleashed in any city present the greatest potential threat to US security, public health and the economy. Current and future US nuclear policy will be presented March 1st when President Obama is scheduled to release the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) as mandated by congress. This follows the recent Quadrennial Review of the Department of Defense strategy and priorities.

The NPR outlines to our allies and the world the US position on the role nuclear weapons play in our security….”

Author: Robert Dodge, M.D., Board Member, Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles, Peace and Security Ambassador – PSRLA, and Board Member, Beyond War
Published in: Huntington News Network in West Virginia (home page: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/)
Date: February 20, 2010

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“When desperate Haitian earthquake victims have tried to save themselves or rescue others by looking for resources needed to survive in the collapsed buildings of Port-au-Prince, they are often branded “looters.” New Orleans residents in dire need after Hurricane Katrina were similarly condemned.
The mass media has been blamed for how the actions of these survivors are described, but the common use of the term “looter” points to another need….”

Author: Beckey Sukovaty, certified mediator and adjunct faculty member at Portland State University’s Conflict Resolution Program
Published in: Huntington News Network in West Virginia (home page: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/), in the News-Democrat Leader from Logan County, Kentucky (at http://www.newsdemocratleader.com/), and in the Cap Times in Madison, Wisconsin (at http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/ )
Date: February 4, 5 and 13, 2010

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“The Golden Rule is in danger. No, not the famed ethical code — though proponents of selfishness certainly have ignored it — but a thirty-foot sailing ship of the same name that rose to prominence about half a century ago.
The remarkable story of the Golden Rule began in the late 1950s, as the world public grew increasingly concerned about preparations for nuclear war. In the United States, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) was launched in November 1957….”

Author: Lawrence S. Wittner, Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany
Published in: Huntington News Network in West Virginia (home page: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/)
Date: February 9, 2010

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“But we do collectively sentence other ‘legal persons’ to death. According to Amnesty International, there are as many as 3,300 inmates on death row in the United States alone, as of today; mostly male; many with mental illnesses; many abused as children; many guilty of the accused crimes; many innocent among them.
In Maryland itself, each death penalty case costs the state taxpayers three million dollars. Even with these numbers and considerations, only 15 states have abolished capital punishment, showing that contrary to rhetoric against conservatives, Americans do care about something other than money and profits: we care about protecting our moral standards first. Still, why is this topic so controversial to so many?…”

Author: Stephanie Van Hook, Conflict Resolution graduate, former Peace Corps volunteer, and Board member of the Oregon Peace Institute
Published in: Huntington News Network in West Virginia (home page: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/; this piece here)
Date: February 7, 2010

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“Reporters, columnists and nuclear industry boosters often state without qualification that nuclear facilities “have operated safely since the 1970s.” It is easy to prove this statement false.
Every U.S. government agency that regulates radiation exposure agrees that there is no safe level of exposure.
The Environmental Protection Agency says, ‘There is no level below which we can say an exposure poses no risk….’”

Author: John LaForge, Nukewatch staff
Published in: Cap Times in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: February 5, 2010

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“Decades ago, rightwingers began championing cuts in income taxes for the rich and — when that lowered government revenue — turned around and claimed that government could no longer “afford” to maintain vital public services like education and health care.

Unfortunately, in an effort to curry favor with the wealthy and their corporations, many state and national office-holders began to adopt the right wing’s tax-cutting model. In New York State, the tax rate for top income earners was reduced from over 15 percent….”

Author: Lawrence S. Wittner, Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany
Published in: Huntington News Network in West Virginia (home page: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/; this piece here), at BuzzFlash.com (at http://blog.buzzflash.com/), at Truthout (at http://www.truthout.org/), and in the West Yellowstone News in West Yellowstone, Montana
Date: February 1, 2 and 3, 2010

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“Howard Zinn has crossed over. He was a mensch, a historian and a peace and justice activist. He was not convinced that nonviolence was always the answer, but he often provided expert testimony for nonviolent resisters seeking help in conducting a robust defense of their actions in opposition to militarism and injustice. He was a public intellectual of staggering stature, producing his germinal Peoples History of the United States that shattered myths and provided comfort to people who had been written out of history or misrepresented in our standard histories.

At the same time that the news of Zinn’s death flashed throughout the peace and justice world, we listened to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address….”

Author: Tom H. Hastings, Professor in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University and on the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association
Published in: Joplin Independent from Joplin, Missouri at http://www.joplinindependent.com/, and at Huntington News Network in West Virginia (home page: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/)
Date: February 1, 2010

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“There is big money in polarization, as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and other media kingpins understand all too well. But one of the many tragic by-products of our polarized political culture is the demonization of conservatives by progressives. Left-leaners are often convinced that those on the right are all greedy, fearful militarists without consciousness or conscience—a grotesque and insulting distortion.

My late father was a lifelong Republican who delighted in undermining the conservative stereotype. He once returned from a trip to Nicaragua and scandalized his Rotary group by asserting that he hadn’t met a single communist down there….”

Author: Winslow Myers, author of “Living Beyond War, A Citizen’s Guide,” and on the Board of nonprofit educational organization Beyond War
Published in: BuzzFlash.com at http://blog.buzzflash.com/
Date: January 31, 2010

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