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If the corporations who own our politicians require job applicants to have a college degree, a college degree should be free. Thirty-nine countries have free college. We deserve, and can afford, the same as Kenya, Iceland, and Panama.

Demand No. 5: Leadership to ban the most frightening weapons.

As the world's most aggressive militaristic nation and its biggest international arms dealer, only the U.S. has the standing and power to stop the arms races we're starting. The U.S. should forswear its currently stated, insane option of launching a nuclear first strike and invite all other nuclear powers to make the same commitment.

It should join the 80% of the world's nations that have pledged not to use landmines. It should ban drone-based weapons in its military, police, and civilian sectors, and demand that other nations do the same.

The world must come together to ban lethal autonomous weapons - the U.S. early lead in this technology gives it leverage to lead the way.

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Ted Rall, a political cartoonist, is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, raised in Kettering, Ohio and graduated from Fairmont West High School in 1981. His first cartoons were published (more...)
 

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