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America Is Making The World Safer One Gun At A Time - 0 views

  • retarded minds
     
    Everyone in the world knows that America is the top exporter of democracy, music, movies, and insipid celebrities, but the one thing that America exports more than all of these things combined is firearms
retarded minds

War On Drugs Or Mexicans? - 0 views

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    In turn of the century America, during the first years of the 1900's, marijuana was pretty much completely legal in the United States. Tons of farmers grew it, and millions of American's imbibed it in medical tinctures, among its other various industrial and recreational uses. However
retarded minds

9/11, Iraq And Afghanistan Have Taught Us Nothing! - 0 views

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    You would think that most citizens and Government officials in the United States would have learned something about why people all over the world hate us through the examples of the 9/11 attacks, the Iraq War, and the war in Afghanistan, but you would be wrong.
tony curzon price

Knowledge Politics Quarterly - 0 views


  • Laura Kyrke-Smith
    • tony curzon price
       
      Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences
      of peace must be constructed (Preamble of the Constitution of the United Nations
      Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, November 1945).
Anthony Barnett

The costs of America's long war Paul Rogers - openDemocracy - 0 views

  • The core budget for 2008 is expected to be $481.4 billion, compared with $441.5 billion for 2006; but the "supplemental" requests to cope with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan push the figures even higher - from a total budget of $557.3 billion in 2007 to $645.6 billion in 2008.
  • injured in combat now exceed 23,000 (at least 10,000 of them seriously so). The effects of non-combat injuries, and of mental and physical ill-health, have required at least 20,000 troops to be evacuated from combat-zones to the United States. Many thousands more come to experience post-traumatic stress disorders.
    • Anthony Barnett
       
      Bloody hell!
  • Anthony Barnett
     
    The $$$ impact of the Iraq and overambitious global reach
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