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28 July 2012
Guess what % of Americans know military spending is increasing
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David Swanson
And keep guessing some more, because pollsters are unlikely to ask that question.
A year and a half ago, a poll found that Americans drastically underestimate how high U.S. military spending is.
This fits with consistent...
22 July 2012
Thailand's robots can save your life or kill you, but not yet love you
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's engineers are creating "humanoids" that can save lives or accidentally kill you, or equipping them with attractive faces, voices and behavior so people fall in love with Thai robots.

Thais are...
21 July 2012
Abolishing war: One last step -- Remarks delivered at Peacestock 2012
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David Swanson
Almost our entire population claims to favor peace. At least three quarters of us favor getting the U.S. military out of Afghanistan and ending that particular war, which by the way isn't ending. When carefully surveyed and shown what the...
13 July 2012
War and Climate Change
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Robert Koehler
The heat backs up across the country, causing drought, wildfires, a mega-storm on the East Coast. More than 4,000 "hottest day" records have been shattered in the U.S. in the past month.

"The ecological ego matures," Theodore...
12 July 2012
Flesh-eating fish are feeding on tourists' feet
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A pool of flesh-eating fish may conjure up painful visions of pointy-toothed piranhas, but that doesn't stop countless people offering themselves to gentler fish which hungrily suck dead skin, prompting new health...
11 July 2012
Veterans For Peace supports U.N. committee in questioning U.S. recruitment, killing of children
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Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and...

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