Dr. Riyadh Lafta is a Professor of Medicine at Mustansiriya College of Medicine in Baghdad, Iraq, and has been a partner and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Department of Global Health for the last decade. We have…
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Silencing America as it prepares for war.
Silencing America as it Prepares for War By John Pilger Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when…
David Swanson reviews counter military recruiting book
How to Counter Recruitment and De-Militarize Schools By David Swanson (David Swanson will be in Bellingham on April 14, 2016 at 7:30 at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship and in Seattle on April 15, 2016 at 7:30 Town Hall U.S. military recruiters…
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Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes
SUNDAY, NOV 9, 2014 03:59 AM PST You don’t protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy It’s been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must…
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Tomas Young, Iraq vet, anti-war activist, dies in Seattle at 34
Tomas Young, Iraq vet, anti-war activist, dies in Seattle at 34 By Christine Mai-Duc Los Angeles Times Tomas Young, who was wounded in Iraq and became one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war, has died. Young, who…