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

Authors: Joseph Gerson

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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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Despite the Violence, Peace Broke Out: Reflections on the Nonviolent Blockades of NATO in Strasbourg

The nonviolent blockade of the north access road, organized by NATO-ZU/Shudown NATO, Strasbourg France, April 4, 2009, PHOTO: POR CMI-SANTIAGO / MEDIACTIVISTA VIA FLICKR
Authors: Andreas Speck

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

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US Sergeant Apologizes to Afghan Parliamentarian: "How Sorry I am for the Violence that My Army Has Done"

Matthis Chiroux and Malalai Joya following his apololgy. PHOTO: MALALAIJOYA.COM
Authors: Malalai Joya Matthis Chiroux Transcript provided by Elsa Rassbach

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We can enforce a peace by refusing to hate, refusing to kill.

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Uprooting the System: Reflections on the Strategic Use of People Power

Protester against corporate globalization and patenting seed varieties, Seattle WTO meeting, November 1999 Photo: Spinnerin via Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ame/162825118/
Authors: David Solnit

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We need to articulate people-power-based strategies or folks will de-mobilize every election cycle.

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Zimbabwe's Health Crisis Explodes: Is Democracy a Dream Deferred?

Zimbabwean Poster
Authors: Imani Countess

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A shaky coalition government tries to rescue the country from collapse.

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NEW STRATEGIES FOR THE OBAMA ERA

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Everything Is Different — But our Work Goes on: A Report from United for Justice with Peace

Authors: Joseph Gainza

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Just as the sources of the crises confronting
us are connected, so too must be the
solutions we bring forward and
demand be implemented.

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

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US Soldier Refuses Deployment to Afghanistan: CO Declares War "Flat-Out Murder"

Authors: Sarah Lazare

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I won't go.

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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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