24 December 2012
Doing time for peace
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David Swanson
Hundreds of Americans, young and old, are regularly going to prison, sometimes for months or years or decades, for nonviolently resisting U.S. militarism.

They block ports, ships, submarines, trains full of weapons, trucks...
15 December 2012
The 2d Amendment does NOT condone random slaughter
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Harvey Wasserman
The Second Amendment does NOT guarantee the right of any and all citizens to own any and all kinds of guns.  

It DEMANDS, in the name of national security, that we regulate it.  

NEVER let assertions of the so-...
10 December 2012
Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
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David Swanson
PREAMBLE
Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not self-enforcing,
Whereas statement of the inherent dignity and of the equal and supposedly inalienable rights of all members of the human family achieves little...
07 December 2012
Pile of Skulls
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Robert Koehler
The boy is in his bed crying because there’s a monster in the room. Dad walks in, snaps on the light . . .

This is the setup for Joe Dator’s macabre, punch-in-the-nose-funny cartoon in a recent New Yorker. “See,” says Dad as...
06 December 2012
Nothing ‘balanced’ about focusing on cuts for vulnerable Americans
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Jesse Jackson
The pressure is growing in the face-off over the so-called “fiscal cliff” in Washington.

The president put his plan on the table. Republican Speaker John Boehner rejected it out of hand. And then . . . nothing. Republicans...
06 December 2012
Animal Rights Laws
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Vivian Stevenson
As a registered voter and citizen of Ohio, I no longer have to wonder why we can't get animal abuse laws passed? During House Session-December 5, 2012-Part 2, our legislators can be heard joking and laughing about raping animals while they...

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