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Petraeus – What Goes Unsaid

Petraeus – What Goes Unsaid

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What Crocker and Petraeus Didn’t Say – CommonDreams.org The Iraq Study Group Implementation Act of 2007 Pentagon Slides Shows 50,000 US troops still in Iraq in 2011 Mission Accomplished? Nope CNN Poll: September Iraq Report Irrelevant To Views of War An overwhelming majority of Iraqis believe that security has deteriorated across the country, despite the US military surge, according to an opinion poll carried out in all 18 provinces. Despite Bush’s repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by…

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No End in Sight

No End in Sight

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No End in Sight, looks like it deserved the special jury documentary prize it received at Sundance. I’m looking forward to seeing the film, if it shows in Atlanta. Here’s the trailer (or see it on the home page of the movie site) : From the director: “But I had no idea how incompetently the occupation was being planned, and with what degree of ideological rigidity and arrogance and callousness and stupidity,” he said. “I just had no idea.” NPR…

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On the Gospel of War

On the Gospel of War

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I stumbled across a great post at live. laugh. love. As a person trying to do things to make this world a better place, it makes me very angry to read the glorification of violence and death in violence as something done out of love and endorsed by God. Loving your neighbor as yourself does not include trying to kill them in the first place. In a global sense, aren’t we all neighbors? Aren’t we all brothers and sisters? Seems…

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Major Religion Memes in 90 Seconds

Major Religion Memes in 90 Seconds

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Maps of War has a really interesting mapping of religion memes – spread and warfare: How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world’s most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? See full size

Nuclear Plans, Libby’s Friend, Scope of War, SOTU

Nuclear Plans, Libby’s Friend, Scope of War, SOTU

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Some recommended reading – do your homework. Saving the World By Stopping the Pentagon’s Programs By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet All that work against nuclear proliferation – gone, gone, gone. Another way we make the world a more dangerous place. Then there is “Complex 2030,” a proposal to consolidate and update the entire nuclear complex, including the opening of a new plutonium “pit” facility capable of producing 125 new bombs a year. Estimated price tag: $150 billion over 25 years. The…

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