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Pay for troop increase in Afghanistan or charge it? (CNNMoney.com)

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War is expensive, and it's about to get more so as the U.S. government escalates its military efforts in Afghanistan.

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19 hours ago ago from Marjorie Cohn

President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His escalation of that war is not 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 nations of the world created the United Nations system to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” The UN ...

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Peace activists tell Obama “No you can’t!”

1 hour, 53 minutes ago ago from Dr Nasir Khan

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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Book Review: Honorable Survivor

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For many years no expert on China stood higher in the opinion of American students of China, including myself, than John S. "Jack" Service. A fluent Mandarin speaker born in China, he entered the U.S. Foreign Service in his mid-20s, only to become a casualty of the McCarthy period and a subject of State Department loyalty probes. Service, who died in 1999, was eventually judged innocent of disloyalty to the U.S. and abetting Chinese ...

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