7 Oct, 2016
Why Aleppo is the symptom of what is wrong with how we deal with atrocities
““Never again!” is once again brought to our attention as we are facing killing and suffering of civilians on a...
6 Oct, 2016
Rethinking killing civilians
“When challenged about airstrikes that kill civilians—whether from drones or jets with “smart” ordnance—the excuses given…” Tom H. Hastings Published...
3 Oct, 2016
When America Was Great
“Donald Trump has an eye-catching campaign slogan: “Make American great again.” Trump maintains that “America has lost its way” and...
2 Oct, 2016
Pay Attention to Domestic Violence
“October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Dwarfed by the enormous outpouring for breast cancer awareness month, it receives attention largely...
2 Oct, 2016
Trump the pigeon
“As the famous ethologist Konrad Lorenz told us in his classic 1963 book, On Aggression, we humans are closer to...
30 Sep, 2016
The Debate: They Both Bombed It
“There was more than one loser in the big debate, but that’s no surprise. I hardly expected any issues of...
29 Sep, 2016
Presidential Debate Recommendations
“Like many others, I was deeply disturbed by much of what I heard (and saw) during the presidential debate on...
28 Sep, 2016
Manifesting the worst old norms
“A half-century ago I was a 17-year-old who had just been hired to do door-to-door canvassing for the Minneapolis Housing...
28 Sep, 2016
The Long, Long Journey to Female Equality
“With the possibility of America’s first woman president looming, it’s appropriate to consider the monumental struggle for gender equality.” James...
25 Sep, 2016
Where Is That Wasteful Government Spending?
“In early September 2016, Donald Trump announced his plan for a vast expansion of the U.S. military, including 90,000 new...
22 Sep, 2016
A Good Beginning
“It seems that some who have the ears of U.S. elite decision-makers are at least shifting away from wishing to...
22 Sep, 2016
Stop the Killing
“Maybe half a million dead, half a country — 10 million people — displaced from their homes, jettisoned onto the...
19 Sep, 2016
Human Decency Moves Civilization Forward
“Remember a semi-comic Cold War movie, “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”? A deadly Soviet Union nuclear submarine”...
19 Sep, 2016
Your rights and our election
“Rights. We are inundated with a great deal of loose talk about “rights.” What sorts of them? Legal rights. Civil...
15 Sep, 2016
Whose Finger? On What Button?
“Through a combination of denial, lack of empathy, fear-mongering, security jargon and political dysfunction, the question of what to do...