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		<title>Cruelty is Not an American Value</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cruelty is not an American value nor should it be a deliberate policy of our nation. But what the Trump administration is doing in Cuba is simply cruel. As a nation we should be ashamed. Cuba is a small, poor nation that has no capacity to harm the U.S. and represents zero threat to our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sidewalk Rally</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/sidewalk-rally/"><img title="memorial rally" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/memorial-rally-300x225.jpg" alt="Sidewalk Rally" width="300" height="225" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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	Did you happen to drive by on Friday, May 22 and see some of your Dem friends (and Indivisible) at Pine Grove Cemetery? Our very own Julie came up with the way to honor those who lost their lives and those who were injured in Iran. Democrats remember what Memorial Day is about.   Capt. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A WAR CORESPONDENT</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 02:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those of us born in the 1940’s and 50’s well remember the Cuban missile crisis when the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba that were minutes from destroying Washington DC and other major US cities. And we all remember President Kennedy’s speech to the American people telling us that the Soviet Union meant no harm [&#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>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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