The Importance of Hope
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“Hackers target 19,000 French websites after extremists rampage leaving 17 dead. Two people are killed as police thwart a terror attack in Belgium. Former Detroit Rotary Club president gets life sentence for arranging the murder of his wife. Twenty Mexican state officials are being investigated for covering up threats and torture of witnesses to alleged extrajudicial killings. These are all stories in my local newspaper today.”
Author: Laura Finley
Published in: Grass Roots Press http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2015/01/19/the-importance-of-hope/, La Progressive http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2015/01/19/the-importance-of-hope/, Huntington News http://www.huntingtonnews.net/104696, North AttleBoro http://northattleborough.wickedlocal.com/article/20150117/OPINION/150117190?template=printart
, The Daily Reporter http://www.thedailyreporter.com/article/20150120/OPINION/150129960/-1/Editorials, Battle Creek Enquirer http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/01/16/laura-finley-importance-hope/21859549/, Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/16/the-importance-of-hope/, Logan Daily http://www.logandaily.com/comment/editorials/the-importance-of-hope/article_af17463e-5cba-543b-9779-27e88908ebb2.html, The Sierra County Prospect http://www.sierracountyprospect.org/2015/01/18/resilience-and-humor-12115/, Summer Set http://somerset.wickedlocal.com/article/20150117/OPINION/150117190?template=printart, Muscatine Journal http://muscatinejournal.com/news/opinion/columns/where-there-s-hope-there-s-progress/article_ac57bc1d-6cc8-5377-90d9-d25670b78522.html, Muscatine Journal http://muscatinejournal.com/news/opinion/columns/where-there-s-hope-there-s-progress/article_ac57bc1d-6cc8-5377-90d9-d25670b78522.html, The Baltimore Times http://flashpageturn.com/?ID=10014858_522317, The Annapolis Times http://flashpageturn.com/?PID=1000532, Sky Valley Chronicle Sky Valley Chronicle http://skyvalleychronicle.com/FEATURE-NEWS/THE-IMPORTANCE-OF-HOPE-2003258
Date: January 16,19,20,21,23,27,2015
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Hansel and Gretel at the Recruiter
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“Military recruiters must feel like Hansel and Gretel’s “wicked witch,” fattening up the children to eat them. With sexual violence, endless wars of occupation, fatalities, brain trauma, permanent disabilities and an epidemic of suicides, what they’re selling these days looks like a lot like a bad horror show.”
Author: John LaForge
Published in: Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/16/hansel-and-gretel-at-the-recruiter/, War is a Crime http://warisacrime.org/content/hansel-and-gretel-recruiter, Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/16/hansel-and-gretel-military-recruiter, NNOMY http://www.nnomy.org/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=339:articles&id=673:hansel-and-gretel-at-the-military-recruiter&Itemid=821, Reader http://duluthreader.com/articles/2015/01/15/4659_hansel_and_gretel_at_the_recruiters_office, The sierra County Prospect http://www.sierracountyprospect.org/2015/01/18/bad-horror-show-12115/, Truth Out http://truth-out.org/speakout/item/28707-hansel-and-gretel-at-the-recruiter, The Cap Times http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john-laforge-hansel-and-gretel-at-the-military-recruiter/article_dda20cb0-319e-5441-a708-9123972d8865.html, The Glmer Free Press http://www.gilmerfreepress.net/index.php/site/hansel_and_gretel_at_the_recruiter/, Battle Creek Inquirer http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/01/16/john-laforge-hansel-gretel-recruiter/21856849/
Date: January 15,16,18,23,25,2015
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Fight terror again, and again, and again. Or end it by refusing to participate in its creation.
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“The cycle of violence. When will it be interrupted? The attack on Charlie Hebdo was another incident of “Terror in [fill in the blank]… attackers part of [fill in name of terror network]”. It was an incident of home-grown terror, since the attackers were French-born second-generation immigrants. It is time to shift away from ineffective, reactive tactics and strategies of dealing with this kind of terror toward conflict transformation, by transforming the structures leading to terrorism.”
Author: Patrick T. Hiller
Published in: Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/09/fight-terror-again-again-and-again/, Pagosa Daily Post http://warisacrime.org/content/fight-terror-again-and-again-and-again, Winona Daily News http://www.winonadailynews.com/print-specific/columns/patrick-t-hiller-we-must-address-the-root-cause-of/article_7f858a95-1476-535a-abe8-77a466bbc9df.html, Davis Enterprise http://www.davisenterprise.com/contact-us/, War is a Crime http://warisacrime.org/content/fight-terror-again-and-again-and-again, Las Vegas Informer http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2015/01/11/fight-terror-just-stop/, South Coast Today http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20150113/Opinion/150119815, The Gilmer Free Press http://www.gilmerfreepress.net/index.php/site/fight_terror_again_and_again_and_again_or_end_it_by_refusing_to_participate/, Rotarian Action Group for Peace www.rotarianactiongroupforpeace.org/2015/01/12/fight-terror-again-and-again-and-again-or-end-it-by-refusing-to-participate-in-its-creation/, The Sierra County Prospect http://www.sierracountyprospect.org/2015/01/14/refuse-participation-11414/, News Graphic http://www.news-graphic.com/opinion/columnists/article_fa9658d4-9a9d-11e4-8efb-7fdd5fafcab4.html
Date: January 9,11,12,13,14,2015
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Dude, Where’s My Peace Dividend?
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“In the 1970s and 1980s, Americans were conditioned with the idea that the extraordinary growth in military expenditure for the U.S. to “win the arms race” with the USSR would somehow lead to a “peace dividend.” That’s what the elected officials of the United States and its NATO allies called it. Eventually the Soviet Union did collapse under the weight of its own economic dysfunction and hyper-militaristic bureaucracy. When the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, compelled by massive nonviolent noncooperation with the dictatorial regime, it seemed that the leaders of the world might finally declare the peace dividend we had all been expecting. Mankind as a whole seemed to have hope that the specter of nuclear war had vanished and that a constitutional democracy could operate as a benevolent superpower.”
Author: Robert T. Hinds
Published in: Herald Independent http://www.heraldindependent.com/news/editorial/151150553/Dude-wheres-my-peace-dividend, Battle Creek Enquirer http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/01/08/robert-hinds-dude-peace-dividend/21442101/, NJ True Jersey http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/01/opinion_that_elusive_peace_dividend.html, Truth Out http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/28499-dude-where-s-my-peace-dividend, Las Vegas Informer http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2015/01/11/dude-wheres-peace-dividend/, Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/14/dude-wheres-my-peace-dividend/, Altus Times http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/altus_times/newspaper/2015011101/9.html#8, The Sierra County Prospect http://www.sierracountyprospect.org/category/guest-columnists/robert-hinds/, Sky Valley http://skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/THE-MYTHICAL-AMERICAN-PEACE-DIVIDEND-br-i-Makes-Bigfoot-legend-appear-highly-credible-1992053
Date: January 8,10,11,12,14,19,2015
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Ten Questions for Conservatives
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“Now that the Republican Party?the conservative voice in mainstream U.S. electoral politics?has attained the most thoroughgoing control of Congress that it has enjoyed since 1928, it’s an appropriate time to take a good look at modern conservatism.”
Author: Lawrence S. Wittner
Published in: Las Vegas Informer http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2015/01/06/ten-questions-conservatives/, Grassroots Press http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2015/01/06/ten-questions-for-conservatives/, Huff Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-wittner/ten-questions-for-conserv_b_6423716.html, The Sierra County Prospect http://www.sierracountyprospect.org/2015/01/07/actions-are-louder-1714/, Truth Out http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28402-ten-questions-for-conservatives, Taunton Daily Gazette http://taunton.wickedlocal.com/article/20150107/OPINION/150107632, The Penn Live http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2015/01/heres_10_questions_conservativ.html, Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/07/conservative-contradictions/, San Marcos Daily Record http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/opinion/10-questions-conservatives, Muscatine Journal http://muscatinejournal.com/news/opinion/columns/conservatives-have-a-few-questions-to-answer/article_29538313-74f6-5cae-88a5-31d42af00b93.html, Berkley, News from the Tauton Daily Gazette http://berkley.wickedlocal.com/article/20150107/OPINION/150107632/12455/OPINION, History News Network http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158019, Battle Creek Enquirer http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/01/06/lawrence-wittner-questions-conservatives/21351883/, Gilmer Free Press http://www.gilmerfreepress.net/index.php/site/print/ten_questions_for_conservatives/, The Cap Times http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/column/lawrence-s-wittner-ten-questions-for-conservatives/article_4d6c016e-15a2-54cb-866b-080bd3128a85.html, Nogales International http://www.nogalesinternational.com/opinion/guest_opinion/questions-for-conservatives/article_f5e1e4da-9812-11e4-8fb6-a36814a3dcc3.html, Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/08/ten-questions-conservatives
Date: January 5,6,7,8,9,2015
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