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David Swanson, War Is A Crime: 'Believe it or not, November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, support troops, or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan. This day was made a holiday in order to celebrate an armistice that ended what was up until that point, in 1918, one of the worst things our species had thus far done to itself, namely World War I. World War I, then known simply as the world war or the great war, had been marketed as a war to end war. Celebrating its end was also understood as celebrating the end of all wars. A ten-year campaign was launched in 1918 that in 1928 created the Kellogg-Briand Pact, legally banning all wars. That treaty is still on the books, which is why war making is a criminal act and how Nazis came to be prosecuted for it.'

http://www.truth-out.org/fahrenheit-111111/1321022729

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Review: To end all wars

CounterPunch
by Harvey Wasserman

11/13/11

As the numerologists note our arrival at 11/11/11, our attention is better focused on this day as the anniversary of the end of the useless, worthless, horrifying war that turned so much of 20th Century into a twisted, violent mess. And on how we must prevent the same from happening to our shiny new millennium. A superb route to that understanding comes through a modern masterpiece, TO END ALL WARS: A STORY OF LOYALTY AND REBELLION, 1914-8, by Adam Hochschild...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/11/to-end-all-wars/



The shame of Veterans Day

Zero Gov
by Bill Buppert

11/11/11

'Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service' or 'thanks for protecting our freedom.' What! I hear this familiar refrain again and again every November. I am appalled whenever this unthinking salutation is proffered. I am a retired career Army officer and like USMC General Smedley Butler before me, I find these sentiments to be hogwash...

http://zerogov.com/?p=2428


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=veterans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Smedley+Butler
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Swanson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Adam+Hochschild
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Harvey+Wasserman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bill+Buppert
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