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TP Articles: The Chinese Aren’t Coming
The China-Taiwan agreement and its implications also raise some questions for Americans: How does a modern nation obtain national security? Are we more secure with our permanent war economy, or is the pursuit of peace through trade and diplomacy, as the formerly most bitter of Chinese enemies are demonstrating, a better way?
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, June 30 @ 18:34:11 CEST (65 reads)
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TP Articles: A Special Place in Hell / The Second Gaza War: Israel lost at sea
We are no longer defending Israel. We are now defending the siege, which is itself becoming Israel's Vietnam.
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Posted by SKon Monday, May 31 @ 19:22:44 CEST (89 reads)
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TP Articles: The Kyrgyz Great Game
Kyrgyz opposition leaders, no doubt encouraged by Moscow, accuse the United States of turning a blind eye (or worse) to the blatant corruption of the former regime, as long as it allowed Washington to use the facility.
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Posted by SKon Saturday, April 17 @ 17:40:55 CEST (123 reads)
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TP Articles: Vestiges of War: How We Choose to Remember
How we are so alike! We cannot bear our dead to remain nameless or the pain of loved ones lost in vain. We cannot accept defeat so death, through a desperate metamorphic process, becomes righteous. We attempt to make of war a dignified affair. We swear vengeance in the face of injustice but justify injustice if done on to others by our own hands. And it is a charade we never tire of.
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Posted by SKon Sunday, February 28 @ 18:29:54 CET (143 reads)
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TP Articles: Learning How to Count to 350: Seattle, Copenhagen, and Beyond
Remembering People Power in Seattle in 1999 and Berlin in 1989
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, November 25 @ 20:29:40 CET (220 reads)
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TP Articles: Afghaniscam
The recent presidential election was a spectacle of fraud; the Afghan Army, despite years of training, may hardly exist (as Ann Jones reported for this site in September); the ill-paid, ill-trained Afghan police are known to operate on the principle of corruption; and a surprisingly small percentage of foreign reconstruction funds actually makes it out of the pockets of big private contractors and western specialists, as well as security firms, and into Afghan hands.
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, November 18 @ 16:21:10 CET (234 reads)
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TP Articles: That Afghan Runoff Election
Too often, the Obama administration seems to indicate that they see the emergence of a new Afghan government under Karzai as critical to the counterinsurgency (COIN) policy that the generals are addicted to. But that's a formula for a Thirty Years' War. A new Afghan government could indeed kick start a solution there, but only if it's focused on a diplomatic and political settlement, not an escalated war.
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, October 21 @ 18:30:34 CEST (205 reads)
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TP Articles: Time for Citizens to Convene
“Freedom is participation in power.” For this aspiration places responsibility where it must always reside: on the shoulders, in the minds, and in the hearts of an empowered people.
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Posted by SKon Tuesday, September 29 @ 18:00:29 CEST (212 reads)
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TP Articles: Weapons of Mass Democracy
Recent history has shown that power ultimately resides in the people, not in the state; that nonviolent strategies can be more powerful than guns; and that nonviolent action is a form of conflict that can build, rather than destroy.
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Posted by SKon Tuesday, September 22 @ 19:16:29 CEST (222 reads)
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TP Articles: A Dialogue on Deterrence
MAD may turn out to stand not only for Mutually Assured Destruction, but also for the Mutually Assured Delusions that decision makers continue to hold about the efficacy – past, present and future – of nuclear deterrence doctrine.
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Posted by SKon Tuesday, September 15 @ 19:06:41 CEST (225 reads)
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TP Articles: Endless War: The Suicide of the United States
"We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide."
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Posted by SKon Thursday, August 13 @ 17:26:57 CEST (207 reads)
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TP Articles: ''I was just following orders''
The Nuremberg Defense, Psychologists, Torture, and the American Psychological Association
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Posted by SKon Friday, July 31 @ 19:02:28 CEST (218 reads)
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TP Articles: The United States must honour its promises to Central America
by refusing to support the coup leaders in Honduras
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Posted by SKon Wednesday, July 29 @ 16:01:44 CEST (221 reads)
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TP Articles: The woman who knew too much
THE pattern is by now well-established: perceived foes of the ruthless young thug elevated by Vladimir Putin to the presidency of Chechnya all too frequently end up dead.
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Posted by SKon Tuesday, July 28 @ 19:54:24 CEST (192 reads)
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TP Articles: Patience with Iran
Obama's policy, reiterated this week by Secretary of State Clinton, isn't about "rushing" to give legitimacy to Ahmadinejad. Rather than diplomatic isolation, more sanctions, military pressure, and war, Obama is offering to bring Iran into the community of nations. It's precisely that strategy that invigorated the opposition in Iran, who saw Mousavi as a vehicle for ending Iran's isolation and for dealing respectfully with the United States on the basis of mutual interests.
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Posted by SKon Friday, July 17 @ 18:27:26 CEST (199 reads)
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