31 May, 2017
Strip and flip: Democracy in a cage
“The wound burst open in November. History, suddenly, could no longer be avoided. Reality could no longer be avoided…” Robert...
24 May, 2017
Cancer with political clout
“A suicide bomber inflicts hell at a concert hall in Manchester, England that’s full of children, as though that was...
18 May, 2017
Hostage to the rules of espionage
“Welcome to the last paragraph of a Washington Post story the other day, a loose fragment of news, a homeless...
11 May, 2017
‘Classified’ America
“For a journalist — especially one covering government and politics — the most suspicious, least trustworthy word in the language...
4 May, 2017
Drumming for Planet Earth
“At the climate rally in Chicago last week, people started drumming in the rain…” Robert C. Koehler Published in: Common...
27 Apr, 2017
A public plan for peace
“The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public...
21 Apr, 2017
Beyond redemptive violence
“Sometimes our tame and compliant media upchucks a piece of truth. For instance: “American officials had predicted that the missile…”...
13 Apr, 2017
The mental limits of war
“A Morning Consult poll winks at me from my inbox: 57 percent of Americans support more airstrikes in Syria…” Robert...
5 Apr, 2017
Caligula with orange hair
“So maybe this is how the U.S. demilitarizes, or the American public at least returns to the consciousness of the...
30 Mar, 2017
How many civilians can we kill?
“And so . . . another “precision” bomb strike in America’s war against terror. This was the scene in Mosul...
23 Mar, 2017
The mosque that disappeared
“We committed a quiet little war crime the other day. Forty-plus people are dead, taken out with Hellfire missiles while...
8 Mar, 2017
The moment of the fool
“Obama . . . Trump. Could there be a bigger contrast — in attitude, style, comportment, philosophy? What irony that…”...
22 Feb, 2017
Costa Rica’s Peace Journey
““This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it...
15 Feb, 2017
The Great American Awakening
“Old wounds break open. Deep, encrusted wrongs are suddenly visible. The streets flow with anger and solidarity. The past and...
8 Feb, 2017
The Mass Grave We Call Collateral Damage
““Lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. Boy, you think our country’s so innocent? You think our country’s...