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The Cost of Occupying Planet Earth

By David Vine Editor’s Note: Although this article is long, it provides an excellent overview of what we actually pay to project our national power around the world. For this reason, it is required...

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We Are the Cause of Our Own Misery

By Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez A couple of weeks ago, when I heard that my 14-year-old son and his friend had been playing with the other boy’s air-soft pistols by shooting each other at close range,...

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GravityLight: the Low-Cost Lamp Powered by Sand and Gravity

By Oliver Wainwright The problem of bringing light to remote parts of the developing world has been tackled in the past with everything from solar-powered lamps to wind-up devices and rechargeable...

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Out with the Old: Recycling Cell Phones, Laptops, TVs…

By Chris Thomas PORTLAND, Ore. – “Out with the old, in with the new” takes on a whole new meaning when the topic is electronic gear. A new national certification program ensures that recyclers properly...

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How to Build a Peaceful Future for Our Children

By Laura Finley Guns. Media. Mental Illness. Lax Security. All these and more have been offered as explanations for the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday, December 14 that left 26...

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BAN: Recycling Cell Phones, Laptops, TVs Correctly

by Chris Thomas “Out with the old, in with the new” takes on a whole new meaning when the topic is electronic gear. A new national certification program ensures that recyclers properly dispose of items...

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Repeal the Second Amendment

By Tom H. Hastings It is now long long past time to repeal the Second Amendment. It serves evil, not good, violence, not peace, hatred, not love. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a...

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Court Rules Peace Activists Can Sue the U.S. Military for Infiltration

By Nathan Tempey In a potentially precedent-setting decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that a National Lawyer’s Guild (NLG) lawyer’s challenge to military spying on peace...

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New Year Means New Era for Progressives and Obama

By Norman Solomon As 2013 gets underway, progressives need to be here now. We’re in a new era of national politics — with different circumstances that call for a major shift in approach. Last year, the...

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Those Who Say “I Support the Troops” Should Just Stop, Out of Respect for the...

By Michael Moore I don’t support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am writing this as I have just learned of the suicides of two more of our active duty reservists who live here in the...

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Make Pentagon Savings Part of Budget Negotiations

By Reps. Keith Ellison & Mick Mulvaney As members of opposing parties, we often havelegitimate differences of opinion on what is best for the country. But differences of opinion do not mean that we...

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The New Mandate on Defense

By Barney Frank There were so many encouraging signs for liberals in the election results this year that one of the most significant has been overlooked. For the first time in my memory, a Democratic...

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Gun Control and Arms Control Are Similar

By Lawrence S. Wittner In a number of ways, gun control issues are remarkably similar to arms control issues. Gun controllers argue that the availability of guns facilitates the use of these weapons...

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Time is Money – The Devastating Impacts of American Culture on Foreign Policy

By Erin Niemela Two days before Christmas my brother called, frantically demanding I tell him what to purchase for my two young children and myself. For the kids, I said, buy Legos. For myself, I...

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King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone.

By Norman Solomon A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Obama made no mention of King...

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Risking Peace is Our Best Security Policy

by Winslow Myers Because we are the wealthiest nation on the planet, we have the luxury of being proactive in ensuring our future security. But the path to that security looks very different from the...

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The Riddle of the Gun

By Sam Harris Editor’s Note: Readers may be surprised to find this article reprinted by The PeaceWorker, since it takes a largely pro-gun stance, but it makes a number of very cogent points which gun...

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Carol Bragg’s Fast for a ‘Revolution in Values’

By Ken Butigan The December 14 rampage that claimed the lives of 28 people, including 20 children, in Newtown, Conn., has prompted a vigorous new debate on gun violence in the United States and the...

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Gene Sharp: The Machiavelli of Nonviolence

By John-Paul Flintoff In a long life of scholarship and dissent, Gene Sharp has been imprisoned and persecuted, but never silenced. His ideas continue to inspire resistance movements across the world....

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A Letter I Wish Progressive Groups Would Send to Their Members

 By Norman Solomon With President Obama’s second term underway and huge decisions looming on Capitol Hill, consider this statement from Howard Zinn: “When a social movement adopts the compromises of...

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