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Deadlier Than Gettysburg

Drew Gilpin Faust The Atlantic
How the cruelty of the Confederacy’s prison camps gave rise to the rules of war

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The View From Poland

E. Ethelbert Miller
Poet and activist E. Ethelbert Miller considers what it's like to be caught in the crosshairs of two superpowers.

Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror

Lawrence S. Wittner Z Network
Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. To facilitate these nuclear war preparations, the major nuclear powers have withdrawn from key nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties

Tidbits- Aug. 7 -Readers Comments: Not Just Texas-Voting Rights, Democracy Under Assault; ICE; GOP Cover-Up-Ultra Rich Power Grab and Child Sex Trafficking; Gaza Is Time To Remember Hiroshima – War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things;

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Readers Comments: Not Just Texas, It's Voting Rights and Democracy Under Assault; ICE Block; GOP Cover-Up: Ultra Rich Power Grab and Child Sex Trafficking; Gaza is Time to Remember Hiroshima - War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things;

The Quiet Violence of Peace Deals

Marjorie Namara Rugunda Africa is a Country
Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.

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In a Time of Peace

Ilya Kaminsky
Ukanian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky examines the way complicity with an authoritarian regime can corrupt a whole society.
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