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Imagine There're No Countries
30 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International

By David Swanson
A serious case has been made repeatedly by unknown scholars and globally celebrated geniuses for well over a century that a likely step toward abolishing war would be instituting some form of global government. Yet the peace movement barely mentions the idea, and its advocates as often as not appear rather naive about Western imperialism; certainly they are not central to or well integrated into the peace movement or even, as far as I can tell, into peace studies academia. (Here's a link to one of the main advocacy groups for world government promoting a U.S. war on ISIS.) All too often the case for world government is even made in this way: Global government would guarantee peace, while its absence guarantees war.

Tags: World Government

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When We're All Musteites
30 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, United States

By David Swanson
We won't necessarily know what a Musteite is, but I'm inclined to think it would help if we did. I'm using the word to mean "having a certain affinity for the politics of A.J. Muste.”

Tags: A.J. Muste

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Call to maintain pressure to hold Israel accountable for Gaza crimes
29 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Palestine, Israel

The Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee is calling on supporters to maintain the pressure to hold Israel to account for its actions in Gaza.

Tags: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, BDS

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Time to change Dublin city motto?
29 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland

Fomer Dublin Mayor Mary Freehill says she believes it is time to change the city's motto 'obedientia civium urbis felicitas'.

Tags: Dublin, city motto

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US Global Power in the 21st Century: Military or Economic Imperialism?
28 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features

By James Petras
Despite vast amounts of imperial data to the contrary, the great majority of writers on imperialism continue to describe and analyze US imperialism strictly in economic terms, as an expansion of "capital accumulation", "accumulation on a world scale”.

Tags: US military imperialism

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Survival or Extinction: Need not Greed
28 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features

By Kevin Mugur Galalae
Survival or Extinction: Part 3—Need not Greed—Summary
Greed harnessed to economic objectives becomes the profit motive, the foundation of capitalist societies. Profit begets investment and investment begets prosperity.

Tags: Survival or Extinction

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