Tag Archives: Peace Movement

Barack Obama : The Audacity of Imperial Hubris

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Famed graffiti artist Banksy’s statement on war and peace. Protest poster in Parliament Square, London.Imperial hubris:Barack Obama and Nobel’s preemptive strike Obama might have used the Nobel stage to mark a break from [the] geopolitical approach to U.S. hegemony through … Continue reading →

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War is Peace : WE Must Earn Obama’s Nobel

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Image by Nick Bygon / Flickr / Creative Commons.War is NOT peace: Now it’s up to us Obama devoted his once-in-a-lifetime talk to justifying American warfare, conjuring righteous images of this nation as an armed crusader, and asserting that violence … Continue reading →

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Tom Hayden : Time to Strip Off the Obama Sticker

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Zazzle.com.Obama’s Afghanistan escalation:Latest in a string of disappointments I’ll support Obama down the road against Sarah Palin, Lou Dobbs or any of the pitchfork carriers for the pre-Obama era. But no bumper sticker until the withdrawal strategy is … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan : Escalation or Social Justice?

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from AfterDowningStreet.Obama’s escalation in AfghanistanFaces immediate opposition By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / December 1, 2009 Tonight at 8 p.m. EST President Barack Obama is set to announce his commitment to the worst blunder in U.S. policy … Continue reading →

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : 10 Best Reasons to Send Troops to Afghanistan

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Ten best reasons to send more U.S. troops By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / November 30, 2009 10. If you want to breed and train more would-be terrorists who hate the USA, the best way to do … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan Escalation : Footprint We Can’t Afford

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Ecological footprint. Image from Sprayblog.Escalation in Afghanistan:What’s the carbon/health footprint of another senseless war? By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 30, 2009 The Afghan War may now doom our ability both to cope with the global climate … Continue reading →

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Alice Embree : Here’s to the Soldiers of Fort Hood

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Jackie Thomas at Under the Hood Coffeehouse near Ft. Hood. Photo by Cynthia Thomas / The Rag Blog. Thoughts of Charles Whitman on the tower,And the soldiers who come back broken from war Bring the troops home and take care … Continue reading →

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Robert Jensen : War, the Ecology, and the Quest for Justice

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Professor Robert Jensen.War, ecological crises, and the quest for justice:An interview with Robert Jensen If you feel overwhelmed, it’s because we face an overwhelming situation. By Calvin Sloan / The Rag Blog / November 3, 2009 [The following is an … Continue reading →

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Dick J. Reavis : SDS and the Great Divide

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History.Today’s Red Book and the demise of SDS Nobody present had repudiated Leftism, but everyone seemed to have reached a consensus that the heedlessness of youth had been our common flaw. … Continue reading →

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American Peace Movement : Missing in Action

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Demonstration in San Francisco. Photo from basetree.Two cheers for health care reform effortsBut whatever happened to the peace movement? By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 27, 2009 For purposes of comparison I want to make some predictions … Continue reading →

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : J Street Meets at River’s Edge

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Graffiti art by Banksy on Israeli security wall in Bethlehem.After 40 Years of Wilderness:Gathering is Pro-Peace, Pro-Israel By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / October 25, 2009 For the next few days, in Washington, DC, 1200 people are … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan : Get Out Before It’s Too Late

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Learn from history:Withdraw from Afganistan now …the United States and its NATO allies [have] slipped deeper and deeper into the Afghanistan quagmire with the same historical ignorance that characterized American lack of awareness of Vietnamese history. By Harry Targ / … Continue reading →

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