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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>History Does Not Provide a  Road Map To a Better Future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each historical age deals with the same basic issues. They are dealt with different technologies, but the issues themselves would be recognized from the stone age until now. How will individuals and their social/government groups make a living? What kind of family units will exist? How will children be cared for and taught? What kind of spiritual practices will satisfy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nuclear War Scenarios</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(one of two in a series) “The likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe is greater today than during the cold war, and the public is completely unaware of the danger.” Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry This year is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans, if they think about [&#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>Silence is Consent</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[“He was very emaciated. He had no shoes on, his pants were tattered, he had a kind of a rope or string holding his pants up. Filthy. Probably hasn’t bathed in months, probably hasn’t eaten in days&#8230;” “He puts out his hand, and so I beckoned him to come to me. I said, ‘Come here.’ [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a former world history teacher at Wausau West and Newman high schools, I am dismayed by the attacks on this academic discipline in contemporary United States.  As Mark Twain said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”  History is a story of the past and cannot be repeated because change has occurred, but [&#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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		<title>Northland Grandmothers for Peace and Lake Superior Veterans for Peace</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Northland Grandmothers for Peace and Lake Superior Veterans for Peace condemns the unilateral, immoral, and criminal U.S. bombing on the sovereign nation of Iran. June 21, 2025 will be remembered as the day the U.S. once again chose war over diplomacy, unleashing consequences we may come to regret. This unprovoked, deliberate attack on Iran is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Are You Outraged?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you&#8217;re not outraged, you&#8217;re not paying attention.&#8221; Comedian Lily Tomlin We all should be outraged at the blitzkrieg of illegal, unconstitutional, dictatorial and simply stupid actions of the Trump administration. This article is about two of their outrageous actions that are blatantly immoral as well. One is the continuing, shameful support for genocide and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Genocide in Gaza</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryce Luchterhand]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hitler murdered 6 million Jewish people during World War II. The world expressed shock and disbelief when the atrocities committed in the concentration camps were discovered. Jewish people were killed in mass shooting operations, through deliberate privation of food and water, through brutal treatment and the gas chambers. Compare the plight of the Jewish people [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Peace is Possible and Patriotic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“..I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war&#8230;The cost of war in human lives&#8230;I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war&#8230;” Gen. George C. Marshall &#160; We often think of military veterans as aggressive warriors and super-patriots who believe war is necessary to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tariffs and Oligarchy</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/tariffs-and-oligarchy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 04:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is a tariff? It is a tax placed on items imported from another country. Does the other country pay the tax? No, the American importer pays the tax and then passes the increased cost of the product on to the consumer. Who benefits? If tariffs become the major way of collecting taxes it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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