4 Jan, 2020
How Long O Lord?
“Some years ago my daughter and I had the privilege of visiting the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania. Not far...
4 Jan, 2020
Arts in Peace Education
“During a final meeting with students in my undergraduate peace studies course, we discussed the role of arts in helping...
3 Jan, 2020
Killing General Soleimani: Hail Mars! Hail Pluto!
“The United States killed Iranian Quds Forces Commander General Qassam Soleimani. There is no hyperbole or exaggeration too great to...
3 Jan, 2020
It’s time
““Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate...
3 Jan, 2020
Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex
“In the past year, the struggle over immigration rights continued along a broad array of fronts. There were significant setbacks,...
30 Dec, 2019
White nationalism and public health
“George Wallace ran for president in 1968 and garnered a great deal of support from white working class voters, though...
23 Dec, 2019
Americans are ready for a different approach to nuclear weapons
“Although today’s public protests against nuclear weapons can’t compare to the major antinuclear upheavals of past decades, there are clear...
22 Dec, 2019
Thanksgiving in spite of it all
“Why, in the era of the Worst President Ever, with racism and violence erupting with special virulence for the past...
20 Dec, 2019
The Democrats’ Scarlet Letter Strategy
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has evidently decided not to turn over the articles of impeachment to the Senate until Congress...
20 Dec, 2019
Trump as Jim Jones?
“Cults usually are one-man religions. A magnetic, dictatorial, dogmatic, demagogue draws throngs of followers and leads them into lala-land, sometimes...
19 Dec, 2019
When it comes to corporate taxes, it’s always Christmas
“As we all know, the largest US corporations and their chief executives were the main beneficiaries of Trump’s so-called tax...
19 Dec, 2019
Militarism: The delusion lives
“The annual defense budget, passed recently by both the House (377-48) and Senate (82-8), came in at $738 billion for...
17 Dec, 2019
Anger and forgiveness in our polity
“When Russ Feingold and John McCain reached agreement on legislation that helped reform the contamination of special interest money into...
12 Dec, 2019
Beyond changing light bulbs: 21 ways you can stop the climate crisis
“Here’s the good news: The debate is over. Seventy-five percent of US citizens believe climate change is human-caused; more than...
10 Dec, 2019
The Afghanistan Pentagon Papers
“The war in Afghanistan, America’s longest, has cost about 2,300 US lives, over 20,000 wounded, and about $1 trillion. Now,...