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    A MEMORIAL DAY MEDITATION

    JUNE 1, 2012 1:19PM

    By Bruce Levine


    Topics: science, politics, poetry, photography, open+call, belief/religion, forgiving, breathe, families, sacrifice, killing, bombs, sadness, anger, time, soldiers, suffering, water, battles, yahweh, christ, mohammed, sons, mothers, brothers, legs, mind, torment, spaceship earth, jordan, egypt, libya, lebanon, syria, palestine, israel, pakistan, afghanistan, iraq, gods, perceptions of man, troops, physics, time, israel, palestine, daughters, sons, grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, heart, meditation, pain, virus, polio, desert, war, dead, remembering, holiday, memorial

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 423 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    What Did We Think Would Happen To Dr. Afridi?

    MAY 31, 2012 5:00PM

    By LateEnough


    Topics: america, doing the next right thing, dr. afridi, human rights abuses, pakistan, seal team 6, sovereign nation, us government, war, politics

    • 6 Ratings
    • 108 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Can I Get a "Fuck Yeah?"

    MAY 31, 2012 12:41AM

    By Ted Zeppelin


    Topics: war, do it now, bring on the lucy

    • 17 Ratings
    • 530 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    ‘Avengers’ Indoctrinates Us-Citizen-Hordes for War

    MAY 28, 2012 8:35PM

    By libbyliberalnyc


    Topics: wsws, joanne laurier, war, superheroes, avengers

    • 5 Ratings
    • 226 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Barack Obama makes it easy to be Green

    MAY 28, 2012 6:19PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: gay/lesbian, working class, wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, wisconsin, war profiteers, war profiteering, war, vietraq war, u.s. military, same-sex marriage, saddam hussein, republican tea party, republican party, reichstag fire, presidential politics, politics, plutocrats, plutocracy, pepsi party, obama, nazis, nazi party, mittens romney, mitt romney, military-industrial-corporate complex, military industrial complex, middle class, memorial day, matt taibbi, labor unions, labor movement, labor, june 5 presidential primary election, john mccain, john kerry, jill stein, iraq war, iraq, halliburton, green party, gray davis, george w. bush, doma, democratic party, defense of marriage act, cruz bustamante, coke party, california gubernatorial recall election, california, bushcheneycorp, bill clinton, big oil, barack obama, arnold schwarzenegger, arnold

    • 5 Ratings
    • 174 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Almost 70 years ago

    MAY 28, 2012 3:58PM

    By Peter Breschard


    Topics: death, politics, war

    • 15 Ratings
    • 314 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    The Last Full Measure

    MAY 28, 2012 2:17PM

    By CoyoteOldStyle


    Topics: politics, open call, war, death of child, sadness, death, coyoteoldstyle, accidental death, military, memorial day

    • 8 Ratings
    • 333 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Making peace with the Point

    MAY 27, 2012 10:40PM

    By Jeremiah Horrigan


    Topics: politics, west point, peace, anti-war, war, memorial day

    • 28 Ratings
    • 564 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    From Under a Black Sky: Thanks for Serving in Vietnam

    MAY 27, 2012 10:34PM

    By Natalie K. Munden


    Topics: veteran's day, memorial day, vietnam, soldiers, battle wounds, support the military, thank you soldiers, thanks for military service, mud, leeches, war, irony, combat, black sky, comedian, randy munden

    • 4 Ratings
    • 296 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    MEMORIAL DAY~A DAY OF REFLECTION ON NO-PEACE AND NO-WAR

    MAY 26, 2012 3:53PM

    By mary gravitt


    Topics: belief/religion, books, feminism, gossip, poetry, politics, memorial day, war

    • 21 Ratings
    • 1299 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Reflections on Memorial Day (Update)

    MAY 26, 2012 1:54PM

    By Boanerges1


    Topics: soldiers, war, canada and the united states, memorial day, repost

    • 38 Ratings
    • 2248 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    To My Father _ For The Love Of Soldiers!

    MAY 26, 2012 11:49AM

    By SpiritManSF


    Topics: gay/lesbian, memorial day, ww2, dadt, soldiers, love, homosexuality, gay, open call, war, world war 2, italy, sicily, lucky luciano, mafia

    • 1 Ratings
    • 210 Views
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    My Sister, Studs Terkel and the Sewing Machine

    MAY 25, 2012 11:33PM

    By Floyd Webb


    Topics: studs terkel, fabric, sewing machine, vietnam, war, sears, fermi labs, explorer scouts, family, belief/religion, poetry, politics, science, fashion

    • 6 Ratings
    • 135 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Memorial Day 101

    MAY 25, 2012 3:09PM

    By Barbara Weicksel


    Topics: honor, battle, war, combat, veterans, decoration day, memorial day, politics, news, family, belief/religion

    • 3 Ratings
    • 194 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Meltdown

    MAY 18, 2012 9:19PM

    By Ted Zeppelin


    Topics: my left sack, walmart, occupy wall street, war, money, theft

    • 0 Ratings
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    War on drugs prospers

    MAY 18, 2012 4:36PM

    By James Nichols


    Topics: dea, honduras, war, drugs, drug war, war on drugs

    • 1 Ratings
    • 130 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    OBAMA THREATENS RUSSIA!

    MAY 16, 2012 2:26PM

    By Renegade666


    Topics: news, military, war, iran, russia, putin, obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 858 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    This war is nuts! What am I missing?

    MAY 16, 2012 10:50AM

    By myles spicer


    Topics: war, afghanistan, iraq, military

    • 1 Ratings
    • 223 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Dennis Kucinich's Terrific Commencement Speech

    MAY 12, 2012 1:51AM

    By Ariel Ky


    Topics: u.s. congress, ohio, cleveland, practical physics to civic involvment and action, envision, elemental energy, ministry of peace, non-violent conflict resolution, creative legal action, stopped the shutdown of a steel mill, the closure of hospitals, the privatization of the city's electric system, ploughing the sea, the capacity of vision, one with the spirit, miracles, a space to breathe, peace is inevitable, poverty, war, climate change, possibility thinking, a thundering universe bursting forth with new possibilities, power of now, commencement speech, american university in dubai, self-recreation, self actualization, transformative power, quantum physicists, gluon particles, interstitial space, save our planet from destruction, hubble, eagle nebula, pillars of creation, sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum, michelangelo, rumi, browning, george bernard shaw, lowell

    • 4 Ratings
    • 2115 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Mother's Day: When Julia Ward Howe Changed Her Tune

    MAY 11, 2012 8:47AM

    By Living with Caer


    Topics: mother's day, war, battle hymn of the republic, civil war, julia ward howe

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