Peace
Iraq veteran says soldiers turning against war
July 20, 2007Jimmy Massey, a founding member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), says active-duty soldiers and their families are turning against the Iraq war as more and more learn the nation was duped into the war...
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How many more must die? In Senate showdown, Democrats demand withdrawal date
July 20, 2007WASHINGTON — Democrats kept the U.S. Senate in session all night, July 17-18, seeking to stop Republican efforts to block a vote on pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq within 120 days. At 11 a.m. July...
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Rumblings in suburbia for peace, free speech
July 13, 2007DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. — For peace activists, being in west suburban Chicago often feels like being behind enemy lines. But fissures are developing in this land of right-wing heavies like Republican Reps. Dennis Hastert and Peter...
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Impeach the system
July 13, 2007Abridged from remarks delivered at a July 1 antiwar demonstration in Kennebunkport, Maine, when President Bush came to town. I was born in 1946 just as World War II ended. I remember the Korean War, 1953....
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Signs of the Apocalypse
July 13, 2007The signs are everywhere — war in the Middle East, drought in Australia and here at home, threatened famine in several regions of the world, more powerful hurricanes and floods, and now the pardoning of evildoers...
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