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September
2009
Warning: the following is not for the weak at heart or those easily excitable by all things military. Chinese annual military expenditures have increased 230% since 1998 (guess how this compares to the U.S.), among other freaky facts about national military expenditures around the world…
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September
2009
“If Brasil can somehow find the key to peaceful, prompt resolution, they will win major plaudits, and many will begin to see Brazil as the new arbiter of hemispheric issues.”…
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September
2009
The benevolent boulder that was President Obama’s momentous announcement last week that the U.S. will abandon George W. Bush’s planned missile shield in Eastern Europe has already begun a massive series of ripples across all the globe’s oceans…
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September
2009
In celebration of the United Nations International Day of Peace, September 21st (Gandhi’s birthday), the star-studded Peace One Day campaign is holding an inspirational peace video contest. Along with contributions by Angelina Jolie, Ban Ki Moon, Paul McCartney, Jude Law, Alanis Morissette, Lenny Kravitz and many others, the inspirational video by Antony Adolf is available on One World, Many Peaces: The Blog and YouTube.
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September
2009
U.S. Admiral Timothy Keating, who heads the Hawaii-based U.S. Pacific Command covering East Asia, is in his own words “very confident, almost certain, that there will be — maybe some discussions about certain aspects of US-Japan military alliance — but writ large no significant change.”
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September
2009
Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumphal subsequent reunification of Germany into an economic and political powerhouse (largely non-militarily), the City of Berlin has been award Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias Peace Prize…
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September
2009
Five years after a breakthrough deal by which the Irish Republican Army (IRA) said farewell to arms, its last remaining primary opponent, the Ulster Defense League (UDA), agreed to do the same by February 2010…
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September
2009
Non-violent demonstrations in Israel by once warmly welcomed Jewish Ethiopian immigrants were shut down by police while political leaders sought an 11th hour deal to allow black students into schools, reminding many of the anti-segregation struggles in the U.S. in the 1950s and 60s…
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September
2009
It is beyond moronic to call any war “serious,” as General McChrystal did in his briefing. Is any war not serious? Was the Afghan war some kind of children’s game before now, and has suddenly become a “serious” matter worthy of adult attention?
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