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Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives...more

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Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

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Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

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And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person who has lost a loved one surely knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no act of ...more

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DB: There's a lot of talk about terrorism. In fact, it's become almost an obsession for the media in the United States. But it's a very narrow definit...more

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If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters -...more

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The policies the US government is following are dangerous for its citizens. It's true that you can bomb or buy out anybody that you want to, but you c...more

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It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to him wrapped and beribboned,...more

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Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

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Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

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We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstr...more

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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music,...more