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â–¶ The War at Home and Abroad: Police Militarization and Anti-War Movement
[youtube=http://youtu.be/ZMe03vnLUJ4] Published on Dec 23, 2013 On Wednesday, December 4th, 2013, Ali Issa, national field organizer with War Resisters League, spoke at an event called "The War Here and Abroad: CUNY and U.S. Empire" at CUNY's Graduate Center in NYC. The City University of New York - one of the largest public university systems in the More
Sarah van Gelder: Peace Pushes Back – How the People Won Out (For Now)
"People want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."—President Dwight D. Eisenhower In Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other cases, the people protested and got war anyway. Why—at least, so far—has the story played out differently with Syria? by Sarah van Gelder Originally More
Glenn Greenwald> Video> On radical executive power and US political and media culture
On radical executive power and US political and media culture [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=edOYR79pL-w#at=167] Hampshire College • Critical Social Inquiry Lecture  March 5, 2013 Glenn Greenwald:  Last month, I spoke at Hampshire College on radical executive power and US political and media culture; that was followed by a conversation on those topics with the writer and philosophy professor More
Glenn Greenwald> Video> On radical executive power and US political and media culture
On radical executive power and US political and media culture [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=edOYR79pL-w#at=167] Hampshire College • Critical Social Inquiry Lecture  March 5, 2013 Glenn Greenwald:  Last month, I spoke at Hampshire College on radical executive power and US political and media culture; that was followed by a conversation on those topics with the writer and philosophy professor More
Jean Bricmont> Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
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