China argues to replace US dollar
China’s central bank has reiterated its call for a new reserve currency to replace the US dollar.
The report from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said a “super-sovereign” currency...
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Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
Monday 15 June 2009
by: Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
From 1961 to 1971, the US military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to...
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2009 DOD Statistics
The March 2009 edition (the most current report) of the Department of Defense’s “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” is another interesting read. Of noteworthiness is the fact that in the section titled,...
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Rumsfeld and Cheney laughing. At us? (photo: scrapetv.com)
New York Times, May 20, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Cheney Grabs a Third Term
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
Dick and Rummy are at Cafe Milano in Georgetown, holding court. The maître d’ fawns....
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War & Peace
The Greenwich Forum on War and Peace
presents two talks in its continuing series on the Middle East:
Iraq: Humanitarian Challenges
Captain Luis Carlos Montalván
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Retired...
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Why the Dark Secrets of the First Gulf War Are Still Haunting Us
By Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet
Posted on February 27, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/128916/
With rare exceptions, American politicians seem incapable of opposing an American...
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The Nation
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Lessons in Democracy From Bangladesh
By Jalal Alamgir
February 26, 2009
The following is an exert from the entire article...
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Officials: US troops to exit Iraq by August 2010
By PAMELA HESS and ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to order that all U.S. combat troops be withdrawn from Iraq by August 2010, administration...
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THE WAR COMES HOME: WASHINGTON’S BATTLE AGAINST AMERICA’S VETERANS
by Aaron Glantz. 254 pages. UC Press $24.95
The Huffington Post, February 22, 2009
Book Review by Luis Carlos Montalván
In January 2009 alone, 24 veterans of our wars in...
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Death in the USA: The Army’s fatal neglect
Salon.com
By Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna
Feb. 9, 2009 | FORT CARSON, Colo. — Preventable suicides. Avoidable drug overdoses. Murders that never should have happened. Four years after...
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