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Blowing Out the Candles in Iraq
Blowing Out the Candles in Iraq by Robert C. Koehler 814 words I read the news – invasion of Iraq! Twentieth anniversary! – and struggle to transcend the abstraction of my remorse. A million killed? Half a million? The mortality stats vary depending on the source’s politics. But beyond the numbers looms an indifference that
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Second U.S. Citizen Headed to German Prison for Anti-Nuclear Weapons Actions
Second U.S. Citizen Headed to German Prison for Anti-Nuclear Weapons Actions by John LaForge 540 words While dread of nuclear war between Russia and NATO states over Ukraine have reached new heights, especially in Europe, a second U.S. citizen has been ordered to serve prison time in Germany for protest actions demanding that U.S. nuclear
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Imagine
Imagine by Shawnee Baldwin 553 words GK Chesterton said, “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” Close your eyes. Imagine 26 shoes of various sizes, mostly very small, lined up in the hallways outside your office door. They are drenched in blood and dotted with bits