Issue 370 - November 2006

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The School of the Americas (SOA, now officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC) trains Latin American military officers. Over the decades, graduates of the school have been responsible for committing atrocities.

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While the closing of some poverty gaps is encouraging, in 2005 the income gap between the top 5% and the bottom 10% was the widest observed since the Census Bureau began publishing such data in 1967.

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Events, Gatherings, Campaigns, Resources, Opportunities

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The logic of murder is a logic that is understood by the government and propagated by it. The way things are, you need to kill to become a Hero.

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Today Washington must go to exceptional lengths to maintain the passive support of the 50-60% of the US population whose support for US wars is at most conditional.

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It is time to tell these parents that no-one is handsome in the uniform of brutality. It is time to tell them uniforms and ranks and medals have become ugly.

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I found full nourishment in Islam for ideas I initially encountered in other traditions.

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History is shamefully littered with the moral bankruptcy of people who were Christian in name but not behavior who were silent or indifferent or neutral in the face of dehumanizing and destructive public policies.

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It is helpful to join forces with a number of people for this project so that the candidates come to understand that many people have these concerns.