9 May, 2018
He can dish it out
“But he can’t take it. We have an Oval Office Autocrat who governs in the persona of a decidedly unfunny...
4 May, 2018
NRA/Trump: Stay the bloody course
“Seriously? Trump, in his annual suck-up to the NRA, says that if we have any gun control we will have...
2 May, 2018
Peace and the nuclear paradox
“Whenever the topic is nuclear weapons, I remain in a state of disbelief that we can talk about them “strategically”...
1 May, 2018
Making Change Nonviolently
“Since Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as president, many Americans have carried out a wide variety of collective nonviolent actions...
1 May, 2018
The Korean Summit and After: What the Experts Say, and Miss
“In the wake of the inter-Korean summit meeting, analysts are having a field day taking apart the Panmunjom Declaration of...
29 Apr, 2018
Difficult Positions: The Death Penalty and Nikolas Cruz
“Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of...
29 Apr, 2018
Tip was right
““All politics is local.” Did former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O’Neill say it first? We...
25 Apr, 2018
Can we unlock the golden door?
“Around 9 a.m., a helicopter began circling overhead. Moments later, as Jonathan Blitzer wrote recently in the New Yorker, a...
25 Apr, 2018
An Unjust Law Is No Law: Pot, Usurpation and Reparations
“In America, we are fortunate to have a “social compact” that protects the people from “government intelligence.” Rather than relying...
24 Apr, 2018
The Cautionary Tale of Donald J. Trump
“In the summer of 2016 I wrote a song titled “Not This Time,” about an unnamed demagogue seeking power in...
20 Apr, 2018
No really, how bad does it have to get?
James Comey was fired by Trump, of course, because he was looking into Trump’s role in conspiring with Putin to...
19 Apr, 2018
Playing war in Syria
“Donald Trump got “presidential” again and fired about $150 million worth of cruise missiles at Syria, accomplishing God knows what…”...
19 Apr, 2018
Teaching Peace in a Time of Hate
I teach at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta Georgia. In recent years we’ve made lots of news (in 2015...
16 Apr, 2018
“The Mob Boss Orders a Hit and a Pardon”
Well, it appears Syria and Russia were on the verge of defeating the USA backed “rebels” and the US Mob...
15 Apr, 2018
Which Nations Are the Happiest?and Why
“America’s oft-quoted Declaration of Independence, when discussing “unalienable rights,” focused on “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Although “happiness”...