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Happy Birthday, Kim Il-sung

April 13th, 2013

By Dan Miller Well, sorta. Maybe it will be his last, but I wouldn’t count on it. Kim Il-sung was born (it is written and may even be true) on April 15, 1912. There are over 500 statues of Kim Il-sung in North Korea. The most prominent are at Kim Il-sung University, Kim Il-sung Stadium, Mansudae Hill, Kim Il-sung [...]

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Tags: Japan, Kim Il-sung, North Korea, nuclear weapons, South Korea, threat, war
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President Obama Will Visit North Korea

April 7th, 2013

By Dan Miller Through his newly appointed press secretary, Dennis Rodman, President Obama today announced that he and Mr. Rodman will visit Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang next week. Their meeting is expected to eliminate all of our petty misunderstandings. This is a guest post by Senator Ima Librul, (L., Utopia). He is a member of [...]

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Tags: DPRK, negotiation, North Korea, Obama, peace, Rodman, satire, visit, war
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Is the 1950 Korea Mess Relevant to the New Korean Mess?

April 6th, 2013

By Dan Miller Probably very little, beyond the differences. The North Korean invasion of South Korea began on June 25, 1950 when North Korean troops — many of them battle-hardened veterans of Mao’s fights against Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists — crossed the thirty-eighth parallel to invade South Korea, initially at the Ongjin Peninsula. They met with little [...]

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Tags: DPRK, missiles, North Korea, nuclear, South Korea, U.S., war, warheads
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Islam Is the Only True Religion of Peace, not Terror

March 26th, 2013

By Dan Miller This is a “guest post” by Sheik Mohamed ali-Baba, a well known Islamic scholar, “humanitarian,” redistributionist and spokesman for al Qaeda. My own comments follow his rant. I, Sheik Mohamed ali-Baba, graced these otherwise perverted and insignificant pages last year with my endorsement, on behalf of Al Qaeda, of President Obama for [...]

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Tags: foreign policy, Iran, Islam, Israel, North Korea, religion, satire, terrorism, war
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Iraq and Vietnam

March 20th, 2013

By Jan Barry Nearly 6 years ago, I shared these thoughts as part of a panel discussion at The New School university in New York City, on May 10, 2007… Much of it still applies as Americans mark the 10th anniversary of invading Iraq. They are two different countries in different parts of the world. [...]

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Tags: critics, foreign policy, Iraq, lessons, strategy, veterans, Vietnam, war
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Winning Hearts and Minds

January 27th, 2013

By Jan Barry Fifty years ago, I turned 20 in Saigon, a very drunk and slap happy soldier in the service of the US Military Assistance Command Vietnam. We were making war, when we weren’t doing Happy Hours in every bar from Soc Trang to Da Nang, under slick counter-insurgency slogans like “Winning Hearts and [...]

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Tags: Agent Orange, anniversary, poetry, PTSD, suicide, veterans, war, WHAM
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Obama’s Peace

January 25th, 2013

By Jan Barry Should President Barack Obama return his Nobel Peace Prize? That’s the sobering question posed in a stunningly serious satire posted on the online humor site TFE. “Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said today that President Obama ‘really ought to consider’ returning his Nobel Peace Prize Medal immediately, including [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan, bin Laden, drones, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, satire, war
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From Waging War to Waging Peace

January 17th, 2013

By Jan Barry Talk by Jan Barry Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, Teaneck, NJ Sunday, January 13, 2013 When I was 21, I made the most crucial decision of my life—whether to return to Vietnam as a soldier or to resign from a military career. In a life focused on nonviolent conflict resolution, I’ve [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan, anti-war, Chappell, Iraq, peace, suicide, veterans, VVAW, war
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A Call to Action

September 19th, 2012

By Jan Barry Veterans For Peace held its 27th national convention last month in Miami, Florida. Among the highlights were a tribute to the organization by former TV talk-show host Phil Donahue and a call by novelist and poet Alice Walker for a new wave of outreach to enlist veterans on the verge of suicide [...]

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Tags: Alice Walker, Donahue, human rights, suicide, veterans, VFP, war
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Military Suicide Watch

September 9th, 2012

By Jan Barry What do you do when even war heroes can’t take it any more? A year after surviving a fierce battle in Afghanistan, Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. He was shocked that it didn’t fire, the highly decorated Marine wrote in a [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan, combat, Dakota Meyer, Iraq, suicide, veterans, war
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