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Peace activists tell Obama “No you can’t!”
22 hours ago ago from Nasir Khan blog
By Jamilla El-Shafei, Socialist Worker , December 18, 2009 WASHINGTON–Antiwar activists assembled in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, on December 12 to protest Barack Obama’s escalation of the war on Afghanistan and his Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo about waging a “just war.” The call for the protest, which was put out by activists from Maine and Washington, demanded an end to the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...
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16 hours ago ago from Left of College Station
The Brazos Coalition Against War is sponsoring a protest against the Obama Administration’s escalation of the War in Afghanistan and the continued War in Iraq. The Brazos Coalition Against War is sponsoring a major protest on January 20, 2010, which marks a year since Barack Obama’s inauguration as a President who campaigned on ending the foreign policy of President George W. Bush. However, the Obama Administration has continued the foreign ...
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11 hours ago ago from Dissecting Leftism
One year after Gaza invasion, Israel proved right On my understanding, there WERE a few rockets fired into Israel after the IDF withdrew from Gaza but the bombardment did stop shortly thereafter -- JR It's something that has largely gone unnoticed but, with Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech winning praise for his defense of war in the name of peace, it is a good time to point out, that in the year since Israel invaded Gaza, they ...
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19 hours ago ago from Journal
While working on my post about this busy weekend, I had a flash of realization. Most people in this country are not in support of escalating the war in Afghanistan yet the president and our government is going forward. If seems the people s voice needs to be heard here. So my flash of an idea was that we all need to write the President and keep writing him until we get out of this mess. There is no good war and anyone that says there is such ...
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22 hours ago ago from Lindsey\'s Blog
2009 was the year that the war in Afghanistan went from the 'good war' to the bad war. Public opinion in Britain and the US hardened against the war. Any pretence that it was being fought for democracy was destroyed as the election process unfolded and the scale of the corruption was revealed. This afternoon I'm going to Downing Street with representatives of people who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan to hand in a petition calling for ...
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Lawrence Wittner: Afghanistan: In War, Winners can be Losers
13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Thus far, both supports and opponents of President Obama's decision to escalate the U.S. war in Afghanistan have focused on whether it is possible to secure a military victory in the conflict; however, it is important to consider the fact that in war, even a winner can be a loser. The most obvious way in which military success can turn into defeat is by imposing vast human and material costs on the victor. Britain, for example, was ...
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17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His choice to escalate the war may not have been what the Nobel committee envisioned when it sought to encourage him to make peace, not war. In 1945, in the wake of two wars that claimed millions of lives, the countries around the world created the United Nations, a system to "save succeeding generations from the ...
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