The myth of the good war
The myth of the good war by Robert C. Koehler 987 words Published in: LA Progressive, Augusta Free Press, Black...
The myth of the good war by Robert C. Koehler 987 words Published in: LA Progressive, Augusta Free Press, Black...
War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret U.S. “strike cell” recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit with a reputation...
What’s your story?
We tell stories, which evolve into myths — and myths are what hold us together. They create the collective entity known as the human race.
Mass murder: New victims, same old questions by Robert C. Koehler 873 words Four students dead, six more, plus a teacher,...
“Protecting the border” is essentially the same thing as protecting your own property, right? You’ve got to protect it from invaders, thieves — lawless jerks who want what you have...
“It” amounted to this: It was Wednesday afternoon, I had finished my column early and walked out to my car, parked in the alley behind my house...
A new defense budget looms. Maybe we’re running out of wars to fight, but no matter.
When you’re losing the game, summon the commies! And conservative white America has been losing for quite some time — losing control of the future, that is.
Several million dollars’ worth of fiction exploded the other day, leaving cinematographer Halyna Hutchins...
And climate change begins . . . “Three or four thousand years ago the gods began a migration from the lakes, forests, rivers, and mountains into the sky, becoming the imperial overlords of nature rather than its essence.”...
It’s too easy, right? Too simple — shoving Christopher Columbus off the historical honor roll, pulling down his statues, yanking his “day” away from him and renaming it in honor of the people he murdered...
I use walking sticks when I walk nowadays, kind of like cross-country skiing in late summer, but I had no idea doing so would connect me with a guy named Joe and open a flow of aching love...
What is a gaffe but an inadvertent uttering of an awkward truth? For instance: “This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.”...
Suddenly there’s major concern across the country — from the mainstream media to every last rock-ribbed Republican — for the rights of Afghan women and girls to be able to work, to go to school...
A recent New York Times op-ed was perhaps the strangest, most awkward and tentative defense of the military-industrial complex — excuse me, the experiment in democracy called America...