Western Europe

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"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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Creative nonviolent activists succeeded in blocking roads to the official summit.

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The violent factions: NATO and the members of the black block, stole the show.

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Summary:In the absence of home, Darwish turned language into a spacious tent -- for us and for all who needed a home.

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In the film Constantine's Sword Carroll calls for Christians to repudiate a legacy of anti-Semitism and religiously promoted wars.

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

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"I'm often asked whether there aren't big differences between the Iraq War and Vietnam. And I'm always quick to say, of course, there are differences. In Iraq, it's a dry heat. And the language that none of our troops or diplomats speak is Arabic rather than Vietnamese." -Daniel Ellsberg

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Open source software can prevent monopolistic companies from controlling how we communicate.