November 2015

Don’t Try to Overthrow ISIS; Undermine It

November 29, 2015

TOM H. HASTINGS - Even some of my favorite doves are advocating a mixed military response to ISIS. I can’t agree. The history of our violent response to terrorism began as a trickle, then a stream, then a torrent into Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Syria. Each and every time we “won” (deposed...

Tags: ISIS, Tom H. Hastings
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Nuclear Power Makes ISIS an Apocalyptic Threat

November 27, 2015

HARVEY WASSERMAN - As you read this, a terror attack has put atomic reactors in Ukraine at the brink of another Chernobyl-scale apocalypse. Transmission lines have been blown up. Power to at least two major nuclear power stations has been “dangerously” cut. Without emergency backup, those nukes could lose coolant to their radioactive cores...

Tags: 9/11, Al Quaeda, Chernobyl, Fukushima Nuclear plant, Harvey Wasserman, Indian Point, ISIS
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Ordeals of Whistleblowers in a “Democracy”

November 25, 2015

VICTOR WALLIS - The more extreme the crimes of state, the more the state seeks to shroud them in secrecy. The greater the secrecy and the accompanying lies, the more vital becomes the role of whistleblowers – and the more vindictive becomes the state in its pursuit of them.

Tags: James Risen, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, Julian Assange, US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Victor Wallis, whistleblowers, Wikileaks
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Arming Dictators: An American Tradition

November 23, 2015

MEL GURTOV - The contrast between Obama the engager and Obama the warrior is striking. US arms exports to authoritarian regimes such as Pakistan’s, just one element of military aid, continue to rise even as we celebrate the President’s initiatives with Iran and Cuba.

Tags: al Queda, Bashar al-Assad, Mel Gurtov, President Jimmy Carter, Talaban
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Terrorism is Un-Islamic; Terrorism Is Un-American

November 21, 2015

FODAY JUSTICE DARBOE - In the wake of the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris and the double suicide bombing in Beirut on November 12th, many Muslims took to Twitter to loudly and unequivocally condemn the terrorists attacks with the hashtags— #NotInMyName, #MuslimsAreNotTerrorist, but is this enough to counter Islamic extremism? When will “moderate Muslims”...

Tags: Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabab, Boko-Haram, Fareed Zakaria, Foday Justice Darboe, ISIS, Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Bergel
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Bombs Will Not Heal Our Broken Hearts

November 19, 2015

RIVERA SUN - In the past 36 hours, I have watched and listened to hundreds of reactions of ordinary people to the attacks in Paris. With a clenched gut, I feared the reiteration of the sequence of 9/11: anger, shock, fear, calls for vengeance, war, and more violence. Instead, I saw the unexpected, and...

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Justice Not Vengeance After Paris

November 17, 2015

PHYLLIS BENNIS - France is in mourning and in shock. We still don’t know how many people were killed and injured. In fact, there’s a lot we still don’t know—including who was responsible. The ISIS claim of responsibility tells us virtually nothing about who really planned or carried out the attacks; opportunist claims are...

Tags: 911 attacks, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo, ISIS, Phyllis Bennis
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These Are the 100 Most Militarized Universities in America

November 15, 2015

WILLIAM M. ARKIN and ALEXA O'BRIEN - An information and intelligence shift has emerged in America's national security state over the last two decades, and that change has been reflected in the country's educational institutions as they have become increasingly tied to the military, intelligence, and law enforcement worlds. This is why VICE News...

Tags: Alexa O'Brien, Americas, colleges, defense & security, higher education, intelligence community, universities, William M. Arkin
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New Survey Finds Significant Number of Veterans with PTSD and TBI

November 13, 2015

GENE WEXLER - A new survey of 23,000 injured service members finds post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are two of the biggest mental health issues facing veterans right now.

Tags: Gene Wexler, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Wounded Warrior Project
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Fukushima Radiation in Pacific Reaches West Coast

November 11, 2015

JOHN LAFORGE - “We should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” marine chemist Ken Buesseler said last spring. Instead, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency halted its emergency radiation monitoring of Fukushima’s radioactive plume in May 2011, three months after...

Tags: EPA, Fukushima, John LaForge
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Canadian City Completely Eradicates Homelessness With Brand New Approach

November 9, 2015

ISAAC SAUL - In the Canadian town of Medicine Hat, Alberta, where 60,000 people live, everyone has a home tonight.

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UN to Vote on Nuclear Disarmament Resolutions

November 7, 2015

UNFOLD ZERO - From Monday November 2, and running the whole week, the United Nations General Assembly in New York on a number of draft resolutions on nuclear disarmament. Many of these are repeat resolutions from previous years – and countries for them the same way...

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Democratic Socialism Has Deep Roots in American Life

November 5, 2015

LAWRENCE WITTNER - The shock and disbelief with which many political pundits have responded to Bernie Sanders’ description of himself as a “democratic socialist”—a supporter of democratic control of the economy—provide a clear indication of how little they know about the popularity and influence of democratic socialism over the course of American history.

Tags: Keystone XL pipeline, Lawrence S. Wittner, Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Nonviolence Works Better

November 3, 2015

TOM H. HASTINGS - Democracy, said Winston Churchill, is the worst form of government—except for all the rest. This is also true for nonviolence. When people are victims of injustice, especially a violent injustice, a violent response is easy to justify. “I’m not going to sit still while someone attacks me,” is quite reasonable....

Tags: Cesar Chavez, Hamas, Osama bin Laden, Rosa Parks, Tom Hastings, Voting Rights Act, Winston Churchill
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Rape on Campus: Guns Are Not the Answer

November 1, 2015

LAURA FINLEY - Several days ago, the Miami Herald published an editorial from a college student who argued that allowing students on college campuses to carry concealed weapons was not only a constitutional right but would help prevent rape. While I appreciate her passion for the subject and am saddened to read about anyone’s...

Tags: Laura Finley, National Rifle Association
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