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John Grant | 06.19.2010
The truth about American politics is this: disguised by the theatrics of squabbling Democrats and Republicans, Washington governs according to limits prescribed by a fixed and narrow consensus. The two main parties collaborate in preserving that consensus. Doing so requires declaring out-of-bounds anything even remotely resembling a fundamental critique of how power gets exercised or wealth distributed.  Barack Obama has two serious leak problems. One is a real leak -- of oil from the bowels of the Earth into the Gulf of Mexico and onto the shores of the Gulf States. The other is a metaphoric leak -- of information from the vast reservoir of secrecy our military and its wars have become. Dishonesty, the notion of "too big to fail" and Bacevich's consensus are at the core of both leak problems.
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CAConrad | 02.09.2010
The latest push for "gays in the military" has pushed me to keep trying for signatures on my online petition. My goal is to go to the major LGBT media with the petition to open up a different kind of conversation about the issue, a conversation about ending war. One of the most common arguments against my petition is that I'm not considering the fact that working class and poor LGBT people have a right to join the military service in order to go to college. And I say that if we believe that then we uphold centuries of oppression against poor people in stating that only the wealthy are worthy of educating without being asked to risk the very lives to do so. Not to mention risking the lives of others. Please join me in reading and signing this online petition. And yes, I did in fact write the petition, I say this because some people have been afraid that it's a right wing trick. I send it out THROUGH this blog so that you can easily see and track me, to see who I am, and see that I am in fact NOT, very definitely NOT the right wing undercover. To read and sign the petition, please see this link: http://invasionanniversary.blogspot.com/ Thank you for your support, The latest push for "gays in the military" has pushed me to keep trying for signatures on my online petition. My goal is to go to the major LGBT media with the petition to open up a different kind of conversation about the issue, a conversation about ending war.
One of the most common arguments against my petition is that I'm not considering the fact that working class and poor LGBT people have a right to join the military service in order to go to college. And I say that if we believe that then we uphold centuries of oppression against poor people in stating that only the wealthy are worthy of educating without being asked to risk the very lives to do so.
Not to mention risking the lives of others.
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Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello | 08.19.2009
US nuclear-powered carrier entry to Manila violates ASEAN Treaty The following manifestation was made by Rep. Walden Bello of the Party-list Akbayan! on the floor of the House of Representatives of the Philippines on August 13, 2009. It was prepared by Herbert Docena of Focus on the Global South. Yesterday, the USS George Washington aircraft carrier—a gargantuan ship measuring as long as seven Olympic-sized swimming pools in length and as high as a 24-storey building—docked at the Manila Bay. It carried with it over 6,000 US troops—or over a third of the number of US troops that used to be based in the former US bases in Subic and Clark. With a flight deck twice as large as UP’s Sunken Garden, accommodating over 80 aircraft, carriers like the USS George Washington have been described by US military officials as a kind of “floating base”—no less a part of the US overseas military presence as its ground bases.
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Partido ng Manggagawa (Workers Party) | 02.23.2009
The secret Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) document exposed by Sen. Joker Arroyo is the latest in a string of arguments to hang the iniquitous agreement. The secret document is an insult that adds to the injury of Daniel Smith’s contempt of our justice system. The VFA must be scrapped now. It was ratified by the Senate in 1999 and 10 years of an unequal treaty is much too long already. This secret document is slap in the face of the Philippine Senate and Filipino people since it was hidden from public knowledge. The Senate cannot waste any time in abrogating the VFA. From the very start the VFA was one-sided. While it was approved by the Philippine Senate, the US Senate did not ratify it. Thus even its status as a bilateral treaty is questionable. 
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