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Warlords at Home and Abroad: Learning from US Mistakes in Central Asia

Authors: Joseph Gerson

Summary:

"Everywhere I went after 9/11...I urged that warlords should not be empowered, that disarming the militias was a priority task for US forces, and that developing Afghan agriculture to ward off poppy cultivation should be a priority…."

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Poppies for Medicine in Afghanistan: A Potential Balm for Numerous Ills

Opium poppies, Aryu, Panjshir province, Afghanistan, August 12, 2008. photo: Chuck Holton, http://flickr.com/photos/rangerholton/2757355468/
Authors: Metta Spencer

Summary:

Don't eradicate poppies. Use them to relieve pain.

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Alternative Economics Resources

Police officer in St. Paul on Sept. 4, 2008 in standoff with demonstrators. Photo: Alshain49 via Flickr
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No Need to Steal From Our Own Gardens: The Spiritual Memoir of Global Solidarity Activist Marisa Handler

Marisa Handler with her book at the January 27, 2007 anti-war march in San Francisco.
Authors: Julie Oxenberg

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By Julie Oxenberg reviewing Loyal to the Sky:Notes from an Activist.

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Forestalling Another Rain of Ruin: The Need to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The ruins of a library at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, June, 2007. PHOTO: TREY RATCLIFF
Authors: Zia Mian

Summary:

Zia Mian reviews books on the current nuclear threat by Joseph Gerson, Joseph Cirincione, and William
Langewiesche.

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Empire's Decline: The US, China, and India

Agricultural Bank of China, Shenzhen, Guangdong province, July, 2005. Photo: Yuan2003 Via Flickr
Authors: Joseph Gerson

Summary:

Joseph Gerson reviews books on contemporary geostrategic shifts by Morris Berman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Fareed Zakaria.

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Modern Day Abolition: Acting on a Moral Imperative

Ball and Chain Bench
Authors: Becky Bavinger

Summary:A review of Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves by Kevin Bales.

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People Power & Positive Leadership

Authors: Naresh Dadhich

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Naresh Dadhich reviews People Power: Fifty Peacemakers and Their Communities

People Power's artistic storytelling personalizes and universalizes success stories of nonviolent struggle.

From Issue 377 - July-August 2007

Siddhartha: Contradictions and Enlightenment

Siddhartha: Contradictions and Enlightenment
Authors: Joseph Gerson

Summary:

Joe Gerson on Siddhartha

From Issue 377 - July-August 2007

Mandela: Nonviolence Holds the Key to Survival

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Authors: Nelson Mandela

Summary:

Gandhi rightly believed in the efficacy of pitting the soul force of the nonviolent protester against the brute force of the oppressor.

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