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Closer to a Death-Penalty-Free World: But in 2008: 2390 Known Executions

For the World Day Against the Death Penalty, an anti-death penalty message was projected against the Roman Collosseum, a former public mass execution site. Italy banned the death penalty in 1947. PHOTO: NOVEMBER 30, 2006, FABIO RENZETTI VIA FLICKR
Authors: Amnesty International

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Capital punishment is a legalized process of physical and psychological terror.

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Learning from the World - And Ourselves: Universal Health Care is Possible in the US

Authors: J. R. Reid Jon Palfreman

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SECURITY WITHOUT EMPIRE:A NATIONAL ORGANIZING CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN MILITARY BASES

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A Confrontation with the Nuclear Powers in 2010

Authors: Joseph Gerson

Summary:It may sound arcane, but the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference may be among the most important occasions in human history.

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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

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

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

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

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The US Uses Nuclear Weapons the Way Armed Robbers Use Guns

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Authors: Paul Joseph

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Paul Joseph, reviews Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World Nuclear weapons are different. We need to think differently too.

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Ten Reasons to Withdraw all US Foreign Military Bases

Authors: Joseph Gerson

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The US maintains an unprecedented infrastructure of more than 700 US foreign military bases.

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Vermont Walk for a Nuclear-free Future August 6-9

Authors: Editor

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