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Do You Want a Cure for Cancer or do you Want to Stay in Afghanistan?

I am asking my Congressional delegation to answer my specific questions, and if they cannot, then why do they continue to fund this disaster, and I ask the public, would you prefer using the 6 trillion to find a cure for cancer, or for the senseless policy in Afghanistan?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Since Congressional delegations only respond to inquiries in the form of computer generated gobblygook letters that speak in generic rhetoric and never answer specific questions, I ask the following of citizens, and especially of their Congressional delegation.

Why are we in Afghanistan?

What BDS Activists COULD Learn from George Costanza

“Do the opposite and it will Do Something”

(CLERMONT, FL) - Jason Alexander, the “actor/director/producer/author/magician/poker guy” who played GEORGE COSTANZA on “SEINFELD” is also the spokesman and representative for One Voice, a grassroots organization of Israelis and Palestinians committed to a peaceful, two-state solution in the Middle East.

The Jewish National Fund of Canada is featuring “GEORGE COSTANZA” as their headline entertainer at its June 4th fundraiser in Winnipeg at the Centennial Concert Hall.

Time for Israel to Accept the Arab Peace Initiative as a Basis for Peace Negotiations

If Israel rejects the latest API, the Arab League will probably continue to ratify it.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - What happened to the recent Arab Peace Initiative (API) unanimously endorsed by the 22-member Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit of the Arab League?

The Arab League latest proposed API to Israel states in brief that if Israel ends the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and allows the Palestinians to build their own state, the Arab world will recognize Israel's existence and establish normal relations with it.

Opinion - America Must Keep A Strong Military

However, we must get out of the war business. We do not have to be in an ongoing war.

(NEWBURGH, Indiana) - The recent assassination of a British soldier walking down a street in London was a despicable act. He proudly wore his country's uniform and for that he gave his life.

Most of us are very proud of our military. We should be. Without our armed forces we would not be the free country we are today.

Interview with Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin After She `Heckled` Obama

On at least three occasions, Benjamin engaged the president, ultimately forcing him off script.

(WASHINGTON DC Op-Ed News) - Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin, took President Barack Obama head-on during a major foreign policy speech the president was giving Thursday on drone policy and related issues.

Benjamin demanded that the president close the Guantanamo Bay prison immediately.

The Silver Lining

Let us not oversell. The complete inability of tribes and religious rivals to resolve their conflicts in Syria hardly bodes a future without war.

(PORTLAND, OR) - If the brutal and tragic agony of Syria today has one small glimmer of hope, it is that the great powers are completely stymied, blocked, paralyzed in their ability to resolve anything by military action.

Were this 1914 and had we possessed nuclear weapons, the Syrian situation might have led to a war that ended the world.

Love Denied: The Psychology of Materialism, Violence and War

Violence is simply an extreme form of attention-seeking behaviour.

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - The individual who uses violence does so because they are very frightened that one or more of their vital needs will not be met.

In virtually all cases, the needs that the individual fears will not be met are emotional ones (including the needs for listening, understanding and love) and the violence is simply a dysfunctional attempt to have these needs met.

SYRIA: Nobel Peace Laureate Seeks International Community for Dialog and Rejection of Intervening War

The future of those who are not supportive of fundamentalists like moderate Muslims, Christians, minorities, and other Syrians is in great danger.

(DUBLIN) - Mairead Maguire, Nobel peace laureate and Spokesperson for Mussalaha International, has issued a report and appeal to the international community to support a process of dialogue and reconciliation in Syria between its people and Syrian government.

She's asking world leaders to reject outside intervention and war.

POINT OF NO RETURN by Andre Vltchek

This rapid-paced book can inspire as well. Andre shows that people can change that dismal reality, IF they gather and fight.

(COPENHAGEN) - “Point of No Return”, a mixture of novel and autobiography, it is an engaging story of an intrepid war correspondent who resembles a saucy crime detective.

It is superb story telling.

US Accepts Durand Line as Formal Pak-Afghan Border

The remarks by US officials were widely criticized by the government of Afghanistan.

(KABUL Khaama Press ) - The U.S. has once again emphasized the legal status of the Durand Line as the border line between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This, despite Afghan president Hamid Karzai's insistence that the government of Afghanistan will never accept the legal status of Durand Line.