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Nonviolent Peaceforce director stepping down…but not out
“I’m often credited as one of the founders, which is sort of like someone being credited with founding soap.”
That’s what Mel Duncan said while reflecting on his role as the founder and executive director of Nonviolent Peaceforce. After launching Nonviolent Peaceforce in a spare bedroom in his Saint Paul home and watching it grow over the past six years into a highly respected peacekeeping organization, Duncan is getting ready to turn over the reins to a new executive director. MORE »
The problem with appeasement
It has become the all-too-common political slur de jour: any indication that one is willing to sit down and talk with an adversary is painted with the slanderous epithet used to describe British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain acquiescing to the diabolical ambitions of Adolph Hitler – appeasement. Technically, “offering concessions in order to secure peace” is the definition but modern abuse of the term to slander another seems to involve even recognizing the humanity of the other. MORE »
Iran
This is from the new Seymour Hirsch article on preparations for a war with Iran. Most of the article is about American preparations for war. But Hisrch also says this:
