5 May, 2022
A promise to our kids: We won’t kill you
A promise to our kids: We won’t kill you by Robert C. Koehler 1108 words At a certain point, as...
3 May, 2022
Men’s voices urgently needed to defend reproductive rights
“It’s on us to listen, to speak out, and to take action. Not because women are our mothers, sisters, wives or friends—but because women are people. And all people deserve to control their own bodies.” —Sen. Cory Booker
29 Apr, 2022
No more Earth Days!
We don’t need, indeed can’t tolerate, any more Earth Days during which we salve our consciences and then go back to a world that is grossly and unsustainably over-populated...
28 Apr, 2022
The global suicide budget
“Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” I truly wish these words of Ike, uttered seven decades ago, were no longer quite so relevant. Perhaps what he should have called it was a “cross of irony.”
26 Apr, 2022
Delusional
One adjective often, and correctly, used for Putin’s invasion is “delusional.” Even if he manages to pound Ukraine into scorched rubble, he’ll still be further than when he began from anything resembling victory.
15 Apr, 2022
Tax Day and the fate of the Earth
Once again we are all paying our federal income taxes this month. We do this as “the price of civilization” – to pay for the services we value and rely upon – disaster relief, help during the pandemic, wildfire protection, food security, a host of others and… nuclear weapons?
7 Apr, 2022
Big Oil’s war bonanza
In case you haven’t noticed, a major consequence of the Ukraine war is the bonanza it has provided for the oil and gas industry.
14 Mar, 2022
Redemption and wholeness rather than guilt and shame
A proposed Florida law prohibits any teacher in the state from providing information about the full brutality of our country’s history of black chattel slavery, Jim Crow apartheid that followed along with serial atrocities including the terrorism of lynching, and the legacy of this in contemporary institutionalized racial bias.
24 Feb, 2022
Putin’s War
Shortly after Joe Biden took office, a distinguished political science professor (whom I won’t name) advised the new administration to engage with Russia in order to stop the Chinese threat. He said the US should “prevent China from dominating Asia” by bringing Russia into a “balancing coalition against China.”
5 Feb, 2022
Religious Support for Democratic World Federation
In a world long characterized by war and preparations for it, religious groups have taught a variety of responses, ranging from nonparticipation to defining a just war and how it could be fought morally.
12 Jan, 2022
Candidates, keep it clean! The exhausted majority is asking
On December 31st, as I uncorked champagne with my family, my stomach suddenly clutched with dread. For the first time, I feared the turning of the new year.
14 Dec, 2021
We need a coordinated global response to the pandemic
There is a board-game called Pandemic that has been around for years before Covid 19 circled the globe.
10 Nov, 2021
A Real Day for Veterans
Some 30,000 post 9/11 service members and veterans have been desperate enough to take their own lives.
13 Aug, 2021
War, herbicides and moral disengagement
On August 10, 1961, the United States, several years before it actually sent troops, started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides...
16 Apr, 2021
Ten Reasons to Oppose Militarism & War on Earth Day
Ten Reasons to Oppose Militarism & War on Earth Day by John Miksad 497 words Published in: Like the News,...