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We Can Live In Peace
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We have the ability to live in peace. We have the ability to join together as democratic citizens to promote and sustain legitimate governments, fair markets, and healthy environments. How do we ... Continue

Tagged: can, we, live, in, peace

Started by Nathan Andover. Last reply by Willie May 12.

An American Self-Portrait
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This is amazing artwork, but even more amazing is the amount of waste our country produces. Check out this webpage for glimpes of Chris Jordan's masterpieces: http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set... Continue

Tagged: waste, jordan, chris, art, environment

Started by kimber. Last reply by Nathan Andover May 10.

MONEY IS POWER
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This thought is directed towards those who believe MONEY IS POWER? Let’s construct a company where all profits fund peace efforts. People buy our products and services, rather than our competitors... Continue

Started by Bronson. Last reply by James Scott May 2.

What Can We Do For Peace's Sake?
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What should we be doing for peace? I try to post on peace sites and talk about the issues. I want to help educate and motivate other people to be active for peace. I think the people we have in l... Continue

Tagged: do, can, peace, we, for

Started by paul. Last reply by Nathan Andover Apr 30.

Bush Thinks We Can Drill Our Way To Lower Gas Prices

I just watched this morning's press conference with President Bush. He spent most of his opening remarks trying to blame Congress for everything that is going wrong. One thing he stessed is that w... Continue

Tagged: renewable, oil, nuclear, bush, drill

Started by James Scott Apr 29

Framing The Issue Of Peace
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How should we promote peace? What type of language and strategies should we use? I'm reading a book by George Lakoff called Don't Think Of An Elephant. It is a book about using language to frame p... Continue

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Started by paul. Last reply by Nathan Andover Apr 28.

White House & congress purchasing war stocks; than starting a war or become salesmen for the war profiteers.
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"We are paying for weapon systems that have no enemy now that the cold war has ended." Quote from, Barney Frank of U.S.Congress, March 13,2008. Whenever we give foreign aid it almost always includ... Continue

Started by chas. Last reply by chas Apr 23.

Have Confidence
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I think the most important thing is to have confidence in ourselves and in the future of peace on earth. There are many ways to find an inner sense of peace. We all will take our own paths on the ... Continue

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Started by paul. Last reply by James Scott Apr 21.

ALL OF US....Muslim, Christian, Jew and ALL others...let us follow after the ONE TRUE GOD and live in peace and MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE!
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ALL of us in this world....Muslim, Christian, Jew and ALL other religions and people can live in peace and wonder if we just learn to respect one another, respect each of our different feelings and... Continue

Started by DarkPhantom. Last reply by paul Apr 20.

Democracy Needs More Media Outlets
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Do you ever get the feeling we only get a small part of the story when watching our monopoly controlled mainstream media? Never mind the fact that there are only a few minutes for each story betwe... Continue

Tagged: freepress.net, reform, monopoly, media

Started by Willie. Last reply by James Scott Apr 13.

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We Have The Ability To Live In Peace

We have the ability to live in peace. We can enjoy long-term security and prosperity for ourselves, our children, and future generations by maintaining legitimate governments, fair markets, and healthy environments. We'll always have conflicts of interest, but that doesn't mean we'll always have to live in war. We have the ability to consider information, debate our differences, and make decisions without resorting to violent conflict. We need more than just one value: Militar… Continue

Posted by Nathan Andover on May 14th, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Noble Bush Gives Up Golf To Support Troops

Did you hear that President Bush gave up golf in order to support the troops? He said he wanted to sacrifice his golf games in honor of the sacrifice the troops are displaying on their third or fourth tours of duty in Iraq. He admitted that it was mainly for public relations reasons because it would not look good for him to be on the golf course during a time of war, but I think this goes to show why he is the best President in the history of the United States. First he gives wealthy individual… Continue

Posted by Mr. Burns on May 13th, 2008 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Voting On A Tuesday Discriminates Against Working People

I've written before about how voting on a Tuesday means all working people have to vote between 5pm and 8pm. Since many working people also have commutes, kids to pick up, and possibly a second job, voting on a Tuesday is discriminatory toward working people. If most of us get a day off to celebrate old Presidents and an even older explorers who accidently "discovered" America, then I think it would be a great idea to have a day off to vote. If we speak so highly about our democracy, this seems… Continue

Posted by Nathan Andover on May 7th, 2008 at 12:34am — 1 Comment (Add)

With Liberty And Justice For All

President Bush talks a lot about freedom, but he rarely talks about justice. This is no accident. President Bush is a market fundamentalist who wants everything based on the "free market" with no democracy getting in the way. The Bush Administration has been working very hard to reduce the amount of democratic oversight and regulation from our society. There is no doubt that freedom is a wonderful thing. However, freedom without justice is fascism. I don't want companies to have the freedom… Continue

Posted by Nathan Andover on April 30th, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments (Add)

News Outlets or Tabloids? Should We Pick A President Based On Tabloid Reporting?

Here's a few quotes from an article I just read from Elizabeth Edwards in the New York Times: "A report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy found that during the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, 63 percent of the campaign stories focused on political strategy while only 15 percent discussed the candidates’ ideas and proposals." "News is different from other programming on television or other content in p… Continue

Posted by Willie on April 27th, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Pentagon Propaganda

From an article in the New York Times: "To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage… Continue

Posted by Nathan Andover on April 20th, 2008 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments (Add)

McCain Over Hypes Al Qaeda In Iraq

To refer to the War in Iraq as a battle against Al Qaeda is a distortion of what is going on. Most of the fighting in Iraq is between local militias and insurgency groups. Out of the 20,000 to 40,000 prisoners being held in Iraq by American forces, only a couple hundred are Sunni foreign fighters Most of these jihadists came to Iraq after the invasion to attack Americans. They set off huge car bombs and promote suicide bombings, but the are a small percentage of the overall fighting in Iraq. Mo… Continue

Posted by paul on April 19th, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments (Add)

OpenDebates.org

Open Debates works to ensure that the presidential debates serve the American people first. We need Presidential debates that involve more candidates and points of view. Our Presidential debates should be in a debate format rather than the current format of simultaneous interviews. Currently, the presidential debates are secretly controlled by the two major parties, through the private bipartisan corporation called the Commission on Presidential Debates,… Continue

Posted by paul on April 13th, 2008 at 10:02pm — No Comments (Add)

Ignoring Iraq

From an article in the New York Times by Frank Rich: "Most Americans don’t want to hear, see or feel anything about Iraq, whether they support the war or oppose it. They want to look away, period, and have been doing so for some time." "This is how the war planners wanted it, of course. No new taxes, no draft, no photos of coffins, no inconveniences that might compel voters to ask tough questions. This strategy would have worked if the war had been the promised cakewalk. But now it has backfir… Continue

Posted by Nathan Andover on April 13th, 2008 at 3:29am — No Comments (Add)