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Berrigan: Combat For Women — Is This What Equality Looks Like?
Znet Article, February, 05 2013
Frida Berrigan
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It is a tragedy that combat for women is being heralded as a step towards equality
Berrigan: Remembering Guatemala
Znet Article, January, 10 2013
Frida Berrigan
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I was there as part of a delegation visiting the sites of military and paramilitary massacres
Berrigan: Do You Pay To Play Or Do The Time?
Znet Article, November, 21 2011
Frida Berrigan
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Engaging in civil disobedience is part of the karmic and political ‘rent’ I feel the need to pay for being an American
Berrigan: Trapped by Guantanamo
Znet Article, November, 22 2010
Frida Berrigan
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Remember way back when President Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo, restore the United States' moral standing and end the practice of torture?
Berrigan: America's Global Weapons Monopoly
Znet Article, February, 21 2010
Frida Berrigan
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Don't Call It "the Global Arms Trade"
Berrigan: Eight Years of Guantanamo: What's Changed?
Znet Article, January, 13 2010
Frida Berrigan
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The first 20 detainees arrived at Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray eight years ago, on January 11, 2002. Just over seven years later, President Barack Obama-on his second full day after taking office-issued an order to shut the prison within a year.
Berrigan: Afghanistan: War Trumps Elections
Znet Article, August, 27 2009
Frida Berrigan
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The official results of Afghanistan's presidential elections won't be known for weeks. The ballots cast around the country need to be brought to Kabul — some by donkey and helicopter — and counted. Nevertheless, U.S. officials have rushed to c...
Berrigan: Hiroshima and Nagasak
Znet Article, August, 07 2009
Frida Berrigan
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I can't help myself. I still think it's worth bringing up, even for the 64th time. I'm talking, of course, about the atomic obliteration, at the end of a terrible, world-rending war, of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and ...
Berrigan: Forgettable Fire: On Not Remembering Hiroshima
Znet Article, August, 03 2009
Frida Berrigan
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I can't help myself. I still think it's worth bringing up, even for the 64th time. I'm talking, of course, about the atomic obliteration, at the end of a terrible, world-rending war, of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and ...
Berrigan: Cyberscares About Cyberwars Equal Cybermoney
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Frida Berrigan
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Watching the Cybermilitary-Industrial Complex Form
Berrigan: Is the Next Defense Budget a Stimulus Package?
Znet Article, March, 15 2009
Frida Berrigan
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Despite the sort of economic maelstrom not seen in generations, the defense industry, insulated by an enduring conviction that war spending stimulates the economy, remains almost impervious to budget cuts.
Berrigan: Weapons Come Second
Znet Article, November, 26 2008
Frida Berrigan
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Taking on the Pentagon, with its mega-budget and its mega-power, may be the hardest task Obama faces.
Berrigan: No Recession for Arms Sales
Znet Article, September, 22 2008
Frida Berrigan
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The CEO of a weapons manufacturer has plenty of chances to rub elbows with deputy secretaries of defense, officials from Homeland Security, retired military personnel, and the best and brightest of the defense establishment almost any week of the ...
Berrigan: Military Industrial Complex 2.0
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Frida Berrigan
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The role of the military-industrial complex under Bush.
Berrigan: 5 Minutes to Nuclear Midnight
Znet Article, August, 10 2008
Frida Berrigan
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Sixty-three years ago this week, the United States was the first (and last, so far) nation to use nuclear weapons in war, detonating two warheads in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Tens of thousands were killed instantly by the explos...
Berrigan: Entrenched, Embedded, and Here to Stay
Znet Article, May, 27 2008
Frida Berrigan
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A full-fledged cottage industry is already focused on those who eagerly await the end of the Bush administration, offering calendars, magnets, and t-shirts for sale as well as counters and graphics to download onto blogs and websites. But when the...
Berrigan: War Resisters Block IRS HQ, 31 arrested
Znet Article, March, 20 2008
Frida Berrigan
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Thirty-one people were arrested this morning as they staged a nonviolent blockade at the national headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, DC. The protestors had placed yellow police tape saying "WAR CRIME SCENE" across the entr...
Engelhardt: The Commander-in-Chef Cooks Up a Storm
Znet Article, February, 28 2008
Tom Engelhardt
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Two recipes for the disaster that is Iraq.
Berrigan: The Fog of War Crimes
Znet Article, January, 08 2008
Frida Berrigan
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A Marine squad was on a dusty road in Iraq, far from home. Suddenly, a deadly roadside bomb explodes the early morning calm and kills a lance corporal and wounds two other Marines. The mission: tend to the wounded and find those who were responsib...
Berrigan: The New Military Frontier: Africa
Znet Article, September, 22 2007
Frida Berrigan
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The New Military Frontier: Africa
Berrigan: Peace Is Not Presidential: The Candidates On The Pentagon
Znet Article, August, 12 2007
Frida Berrigan
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Peace Is Not Presidential: The Candidates On The Pentagon
Berrigan: The Elephants of Missile Defense
Znet Article, June, 24 2007
Frida Berrigan
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In Albania, nearing the end of his six-nation tour of Europe, President George W. Bush hopped out of his limo to have his head rubbed and his cheeks kissed by an adoring crowd in...
Berrigan: Militarizing the Border
Znet Article, April, 18 2007
Frida Berrigan
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The sun was strong and so was the rhetoric, as President George W. Bush headed to Yuma, Arizona on April 9 to tackle th...
Berrigan: Nuclear Hypocrisy and Iran
Znet Article, March, 06 2007
Frida Berrigan
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The Bush administration is very focused these days on Iran’s nuclear program. This focus has only sharpened in the aftermath of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s recent report that Iran continues to enrich uranium in defianc...
Berrigan: Protesting Guantanamo
Znet Article, January, 28 2007
Frida Berrigan
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On January 11, 2007 more than 100 people in orange jumpsuits trudged slowly from the Supreme Court to the Federal District Court in Washington, DC. Black hoods covered their faces. Another 400 protesters followed “the prisoners†as...
Berrigan: Raptors, Robots, and Rods from God
Znet Article, January, 09 2007
Frida Berrigan
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We are not winning the war on terrorism (and would not be even if we knew what victory looked like) or the war in Iraq. Our track record in Afghanistan, as well as in the allied "war" on drugs, is hardly better. Yet the Pentagon is hard at work, s...
Berrigan: Seeing (Pentagon) Stars
Znet Article, August, 03 2006
Frida Berrigan
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Oh, the stars! We're riveted by their clothes, their suntans, what they do (and don't) eat for breakfast. We're titillated when they appear too fat, disheveled, or lumpy. We're envious when they're expectably sleek, well muscled, and well coiffed....
Berrigan: Who's Arming Israel?
Znet Article, July, 31 2006
Frida Berrigan
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Much has been made in the U.S. media of the Syrian- and Iranian-origin weaponry used by Hezbollah in the escalating violence in Israel and Lebanon. There has been no parallel discussion of the origin of Israel's weaponry, the vast bulk of which is...
Berrigan: Privatizing the Apocalypse
Znet Article, March, 30 2006
Frida Berrigan
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Started as the super-secret "Project Y" in 1943, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has long been the keystone institution of the American nuclear-weapons producing complex. I...
