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		<title>How Would You Send $1.5 Trillion Dollars?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Code Pink]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How would you spend $1.5 trillion dollars? Statement from Code Pink While the working class struggles to make ends meet, this budget propels the U.S. into more endless wars to enrich weapons and tech billionaires. We demand a budget that invests in the people and planet, not death &#38; destruction. The Trump administration proposed the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Art of The Bad Deal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“He&#8217;s all hat and no cattle&#8221; is a quip Jim Hightower uses to describe feckless, blowhard politicians. Google AI says this old Texas colloquialism means someone who “talks a big game, acts showy, or makes grand promises, but lacks the actual substance, wealth, or capability to back it up.” Donald Trump&#8217;s foreign policy, especially with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Will Williams</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; Will Williams of Madison Veterans for Peace #25 has passed. He will be missed&#8230;. &#160; In 2009, Will received WI Network for Peace and Justice&#8217;s Peacemaker of the Year award. Learn more about Will Williams in the PBS documentary by Bill Moyers. THE GOOD SOLDIER follows four veterans, one from World War II, two from Vietnam, and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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	“How have you, your family or your community been impacted by war.” This was the question Veterans for Peace and Northland Grandmothers for Peace asked the public on Memorial Day.* They gathered 175 statements. Most of the responses discussed the loss or suffering of a family member. Some were about war diverting resources from important [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>War Spending in Perspective</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 02:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	We all know federal spending on war and preparation for war – what we euphemistically call “defense” spending – is huge. But most people have no understanding of how big these numbers are, how they compare with other government spending, and what it all means for their lives. People might understand $100,000 because that is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>War Spending in Perspective</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 01:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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	We all know federal spending on war and preparation for war – what we euphemistically call “defense” spending – is huge. But most people have no understanding of how big these numbers are, how they compare with other government spending, and what it all means for their lives. People might understand $100,000 because that is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A “Defense” Spending Surge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 01:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“In America, nothing – and I mean nothing – seems capable of reversing massive military spending and incessant warfare.” William Astore, a retired USAF Lt. Colonel, historian, author and commentator on military issues. Pentagon spending for fiscal year 2026 (October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026) is projected to be $961.6 billion. This is an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Better Way Than War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.&#8221; President Ronald Reagan. We know from long experience that wars do not solve problems. Wars are the problem and only result in death, destruction, debt and suffering. There are better ways to settle conflicts and interact with our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More on political violence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has a lot of damn gall accusing Democrats and liberals of inciting political violence. Since 2015 he has been a primary source of inflammatory, divisive, hate-filled political rhetoric that  encouraged violence by his supporters. He is the only president in our history to incite a mob to attack Congress. &#160; In the past [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deja Vu History or a New Society?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Contemporary times have a feeling of deja vu, especially for a history teacher.  Our new administration has its inspiration in an incompletely understood past.  We can begin with an economic system built on protectionist tariffs which harkens back to the 16th to the 18th centuries in Europe. It was called mercantilism.  The system was simple, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Abolishing Nuclear War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Nuclear weapons do not provide security. They are instruments of mass suffering. Preventing nuclear war is a public health imperative.” Physicians for Social Responsibility We can abolishing nuclear weapons. It is a realistic, achievable goal. It is not a Utopian fantasy. But people must demand the United States change course and join the worldwide effort to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who is “threatening” whom in the Middle East?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For many decades U.S. presidents, foreign policy elites, pundit talking heads, mainstream news media and most politicians of both major parties have accused Iran of being “a threat” to the Middle East and world peace. But is this true? In reality who is “threatening” whom in this region? Hypocrisy is not a good basis for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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