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Environment

At Glasgow, Military Emissions Are Exempt

Once again, they’re standing beside each other in a long row. With ties around their necks, excited but serious expressions on their faces and brows photogenically wrinkled with concern, they’re ready to save the world from the fiery furnace.

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Economic Cost

It’s the Weapons Sales, Stupid

U.S. presidential election campaigns have been known to focus on the slogan “It’s the economy, stupid.”

Efforts to explain the behavior of the U.S. government ought to put a little more focus on a different slogan, found in the headline above.

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Environment

The Unspoken Argument for More Nuclear Power

So here we are again at another COP (Conference of the Parties). Well, some of us are in Glasgow, Scotland at the COP itself, and some of us, this writer included, are sitting at a distance, trying to feel hopeful.

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Demilitarization

Stop Feeding the Beast

We should learn that lesson. Taxpayers can’t expect peace when they continue to pay bills sent by merchants of death. During all elections and budgeting procedures, politicians and other decision-makers should hear loud demands of people: stop feeding the beast!

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Environment

Video: David Swanson on War and Climate

David Swanson, co-founder of World BEYOND War will tell us about the big campaign to get COP26 to include the biggest source of environmental damage of all: the Military/War System.

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Environment

500 Organizations Propose Mysteriously Unknowable Climate Solution

In a remarkable feat of epistemic magic, 500 environmental and peace organizations and nearly 25,000 individuals have endorsed a petition that will be delivered to the COP26 climate conference — a petition proposing a solution that could add dramatically to efforts to protect the Earth’s climate, but a solution that it is impossible for most members of the homo sapiens species to become aware of.

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Asia

Learning from Prince Tokugawa

Japan’s Prince Iyesato Tokugawa ought perhaps to be of more interest to us right now than a Japanese princess currently marrying a “commoner,” or Hollywood movies so focused on the violent moments in history that they’ve now got actors shooting cinematographers.

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