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Olive oil, Olive branch: Group using Stillwater as a base for distributing fair-trade goods to benefit Palestinian farmers
By Mark Brouwer
Stillwater Courier
In the near secrecy of a chilly Stillwater warehouse last Friday, a small group of religious adherents from throughout the state met to finish what they considered to [...]

Obama and Jeremiah Wright
by David Hilfiker
The current controversy over Barack Obama’s relationship with his former pastor, Rev Jeremiah Wright, deserves our close attention.  I say this not as an Obama supporter (although I happen to support him) but as a citizen deeply concerned about race in America.  This is an important teachable moment: The issue [...]

Why I Don’t “Support the Troops”: Blasphemy in the Temple of National Security
By Steve Clemens
Jim Steinhagen, a leader of the local chapter of Veterans for Peace told his story about his participation in the Korean War at the recent annual gathering of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers. When he discussed his own personal naivety in [...]

Thoughts on Nuclear Proliferation
By Malini DeSilva
Since I recently finished my third year of medical school and have begun working on a public health degree, health is a topic I think of often. So, when I started to think about what I would talk about tonight, it seemed natural that whatever topic I chose, the health [...]