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The Plague
What do we owe our neighbors in times of crisis? Most readers know “The Plague,” the 1948 masterpiece by Albert Camus, because it was Assigned Reading in school. If you were taking something like 20th...
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US Navy SEAL Loses His Life During Rescue Mission
They are everything society says is masculine, but they are still human. When you hear the words Navy SEAL what is the first thing that you think of? Terms like fearless, strong, infallible and...
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New Report Sheds New Light On PTSD
Kathryn DeHoyos discusses what we know, or more importantly what we don’t know about PTSD. Very little is known today about the root causes of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), referred to as...
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Dead Men Don’t Count in War
When the war dead are counted, ‘women and children’ are singled out for our pity. Why do we accept the deaths of men in war? — We live in troubled times. The US is fighting an asymmetric war against...
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Op-Ed: 88,000 People Dead. Why Aren’t We Responding With an Assault Weapons Ban?
AP Photo, Susan Walsh The Newtown shootings changed Alex Yarde’s sense of safety. Now he’s even more shaken as the Assault Weapons Ban has been cut from the gun control bill. Yesterday I woke to news...
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The Elephant in the Room: Militarism
Jeff Cohen believes militarism and perpetual war are our country’s biggest problems. I spent years as a political pundit on mainstream TV — at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. I was outnumbered, outshouted,...
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#51:The Man in the Cowboy Hat
Two senseless tragedies, one heroic father: Carlos Arredondo. #51:The Man in the Cowboy Hat As of this reporting, no one knows why bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on Patriot’s Day, April 15,...
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The Boots
” … and then it hit me … the boots weren’t his.” An encounter with the Boston Marathon hero Carlos Arredondo, five years earlier, tells a story of love and grief. It was near the end of the day, most...
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Drone King
Drone technology that preserves the lives of American soldiers may come at a price to American civilians. The world has known its share of warrior kings. A warrior king is not the same as a...
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PRISM: Privacy Revoked in Security Measure
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon. The NSA spies on us. All of us. All the time. Greg Olear wonders why we aren’t more pissed off about it. Last April, Facebook acquired Instagram, the popular...
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Who Are We at War With? Sorry, That’s Classified
— by Cora Currier, ProPublica In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.”...
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Just Because You Are Labeled a Terrorist Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be Right.
Alex Dick-Godfrey finds that al Shabaab might have a valid point about occupying forces in Somalia. ––– We are fed a barrage of negative media about Somalia: piracy, militant insurrection, terrorist...
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Call It What It Is: The United States Tortures Human Beings
Rev. Neil O’Farrell asks: At what time did American civilization end? — The United States tortures human beings. We’ve called it “enhanced interrogation techniques,” but ethics demand we call things...
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Are Drones More than Killing and Surveillance Machines?
How do we benefit from drones without giving up our privacy, civil rights and humanity in the process? — From the very first formation of primitive social groups in the dawn of humanity, there have...
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What Circle of Hell?
Rev. Neil O’Farrell and the darkest horror of the torture report ––– Rectal hydration. Evidently it was practiced by the Central Intelligence Agency, in what were called dungeons, in God-forsaken...
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Why We Need to #StopTerrorPorn
Why are we playing into behavior that only benefits the media and the terrorists? — Why do the major television networks – CNN, Fox News, and so on – allow themselves to be used as recruiting tools...
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Land of the Free Because of the Brave: Life After War
For our veterans, life after war requires assimilation into a culture that understands very little about them and their service. — On September 11, 2001 our nation was rocked by the worst terrorist...
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Soul Searching in the Midst of Terrorism
View image | gettyimages.com The belief we are above hellish circumstances, until hate detonates a hairs-width from our sanctity is insulting and inane. Suddenly we are outraged and hold tight to the...
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‘Devil in False Colors’ A Thrilling Novel Based on Modern Terrorism
Devil in False Colors is a gripping, fast paced thriller I have read a good amount of novels lately. Some that dealt with immortality, others that took a look at look at more supernatural things. Yet I...
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Counter Clockwise
Telaina Eriksen recalls the surreal, backwards feeling that many of us felt on 9/11. — Counter Clockwise The cashier at Meijer was listless, shocked. She scanned my milk, eggs, bread. “My son is...
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