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Cost of War Trade offs> Taxpayers in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District will pay $317.7 million for Afghanistan war spending for FY2012 Enacted.

Trade-Offs, Cost of War Do you want to know the Trade offs for your state, your city, your Congressional District? Go to CostofWar.com and select Trade Offs. Taxpayers in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District will pay $317.7 million for Afghanistan war spending for FY2012 Enacted. For the same amount of money, the following could be provided: 151,124 Annual Energy Costs More

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Cost of War Trade offs> Taxpayers in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District will pay $317.7 million for Afghanistan war spending for FY2012 Enacted.

Trade-Offs, Cost of War Do you want to know the Trade offs for your state, your city, your Congressional District? Go to CostofWar.com and select Trade Offs. Taxpayers in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District will pay $317.7 million for Afghanistan war spending for FY2012 Enacted. For the same amount of money, the following could be provided: 151,124 Annual Energy Costs More

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Tomgram> William Hartung, Why No One Notices Our MAD Planet

Tomgram: William Hartung, Why No One Notices Our MAD Planet Posted by William Hartung at 5:28PM, July 08, 2012. Tom Dispatch I can still remember sneaking with two friends into the balcony of some Broadway movie palace to see the world end. The year was 1959, the film was On the Beach, and I was 15. It More

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Tomgram> William Hartung, Why No One Notices Our MAD Planet

Tomgram: William Hartung, Why No One Notices Our MAD Planet Posted by William Hartung at 5:28PM, July 08, 2012. Tom Dispatch I can still remember sneaking with two friends into the balcony of some Broadway movie palace to see the world end. The year was 1959, the film was On the Beach, and I was 15. It More

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William Hartung> Beyond Nuclear Denial> How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not Our World

Beyond Nuclear Denial> How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not Our World By William D. Hartung July 08, 2012 Tom Dispatch There was a time when nuclear weapons were a significant part of our national conversation. Addressing the issue of potential atomic annihilation was once described by nuclear theorist Herman Kahn as “thinking about the More

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William Hartung> Beyond Nuclear Denial> How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not Our World

Beyond Nuclear Denial> How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not Our World By William D. Hartung July 08, 2012 Tom Dispatch There was a time when nuclear weapons were a significant part of our national conversation. Addressing the issue of potential atomic annihilation was once described by nuclear theorist Herman Kahn as “thinking about the More

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SPEAK NOW! or the Drones Killings Will Continue!

SPEAK NOW! or the Drones Killings Will Continue! Posted on July 11, 2012 by comehomeamerica Stolen directly from Joe Scarry’s Scarry Thoughts blog. On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine published an unsensational profile of the drone pilot training facility at Holloman Air Force Base, in New Mexico (“The Drone Zone” by Mark Mazzetti). It’s important to recognize that the press gets access More

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Paul R. Pillar> Drawing Lessons from the Vietnam War

Drawing Lessons from the Vietnam War The Vietnam War may seem like ancient history to many Americans, but that destructive conflict holds important lessons for the present, especially the danger of “group think” driving foreign policy and the value of insights that clash with conventional wisdom, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. More

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Paul R. Pillar> Drawing Lessons from the Vietnam War

Drawing Lessons from the Vietnam War The Vietnam War may seem like ancient history to many Americans, but that destructive conflict holds important lessons for the present, especially the danger of “group think” driving foreign policy and the value of insights that clash with conventional wisdom, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. More

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Coleen Rowley> A long way from the Magna Carta to legalizing torture and “kill lists”!

A long way from the Magna Carta to legalizing torture and “kill lists”! Posted on June 19, 2012 by coleenrowley comehomeamerica.org [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU4sgfLXGKM&w=420&h=315] Friday June 15, 2012, happened to be the 797th anniversary of the day certain feudal barons in England confronted King John and asked him to guarantee a “charter of liberties” which eventually became the Magna Carta. More

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Coleen Rowley> A long way from the Magna Carta to legalizing torture and “kill lists”!

A long way from the Magna Carta to legalizing torture and “kill lists”! Posted on June 19, 2012 by coleenrowley comehomeamerica.org [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU4sgfLXGKM&w=420&h=315] Friday June 15, 2012, happened to be the 797th anniversary of the day certain feudal barons in England confronted King John and asked him to guarantee a “charter of liberties” which eventually became the Magna Carta. More

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Chris Hedges> Northern Light

Northern Light by Chris Hedges Posted on Jun 3, 2012 truthdig.com Photo by (CC-BY-ND) I gave a talk last week at Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Many in the audience had pinned small red squares of felt to their clothing. The carre rouge, or red square, has become the Canadian symbol of More

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