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Apply Now: Rotary Peace Fellowships

Rotary Peace Fellowship Program Applications now being accepted for 2016 FULL FUNDING! www.rotary.org/en/peace-fellowships THE FELLOWSHIP Each year, Rotary selects some of the world’s most dedicated

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New Zealand Says No to Iraq Deployment

Open letter on military deployment to Iraq Peace Movement Aotearoa In response to yesterday’s announcement that the New Zealand armed forces will begin specific training

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Cuba: Land of Opportunity

What can I be sure of after only one week in Havana? Very little. There are exceptions to every pattern, and sometimes more exceptions than

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REJECT ENDLESS, WORLDWIDE WAR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 13, 2015 Contact: David Swanson, Executive Director, info@worldbeyondwar.org STATEMENT ON REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION FOR THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE (AUMF) –

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Cuba Through the Looking Glass

Today in Havana, Mariela Castro Espin, director of the national center for sexual education and daughter of the president of Cuba, gave us a truly

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Cuba Is Our Family

Cuba and the Estados Unidos have been family for so long that relationships have been reversed, forgotten, turned inside out, and repeated. In the 19th

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Cuba Is Good for Your Health

“It’s behind us,” Fernando Gonzales of the Cuban Five said with a smile when I told him just a few moments ago that I was

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Cuba Uncensored

This evening, February 9, 2015, a handful of visitors from the land to the north asked an assistant (or “instructional” which I take to be

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Cuba Is Hot

We arrived in Havana tonight, February 8, 2015, or year 56 of the revolution, 150 of us filling an entire airplane, a group of U.S.

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The Key That Is the Saudi Kingdom

Was the United States compelled to attack Afghanistan and Iraq by the events of September 11, 2001? A key to answering that rather enormous question

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A Tale of Two Movies

By John Reuwer, MD, Adjunct Professor, Conflict Resolution, Saint Michael’s College As a student and teacher of nonviolent action, I was disheartened last week to

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Addiction Is Not Addictive

By David Swanson Whether someone becomes addicted to drugs has much more to do with their childhood and their quality of life than with the

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Born at War

By David Swanson Foreword to America’s Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying (available in Kindle version free this week.) One of the ways in which we

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When Veterans Try to End Wars

Nan Levinson’s new book is called War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built, but it left me wishing

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Exporting Sherman’s March

Sherman statue anchors one southern corner of Central Park (with Columbus on a stick anchoring the other): Matthew Carr’s new book, Sherman’s Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians,

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IMMINENT CRACKDOWN IN GANGJEONG VILLAGE, JEJU ISLAND!

From Javier Garate at WRI:  (https://www.facebook.com/groups/GJpeoples/permalink/1066190600074580/) The Korean Ministry of National Defense has declared that they will perform an “Administrative Execution” on Saturday, January 31st,

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Students Save Palestine

By David Swanson In proposing that Congress Members boycott or walk out on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress, expected to push for

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When Shock and Awe Turns 12

By David Swanson Shock and Awe is having a troubled adolescence. The U.S. government is killing children with flying robot death planes, keeping troops in

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