19 Jan, 2022
I decided to honor Martin Luther King Day this year by reading — and trying to absorb, more fully than ever before — the entirety (nearly 7,000 words) of the iconic speech he gave at Riverside Church a year to the day before his assassination...
19 May, 2021
Each Spring our country funds its priorities for the coming year. This annual process gives us the opportunity for renewal as we address our critical needs...
15 Apr, 2021
The officer — the mad man with a badge — probably shouts those words 50 times at the driver, Second Lt. Caron Nazario, at a gas station in Windsor, Va., all the while holding a gun a foot from his face.
4 Mar, 2021
Taking war personally By Robert C. Koehler Published in: Common Dreams, City Watch, LA Progressive, Uncommon Thought, Free Press, The...
“In May 2016, President Barack Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima, the city that suffered...
“”Nuclear weapons present an unacceptable danger to humanity. The only real way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons is...
“Seventy-four years ago today the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima…” Author: Robert F....
“Today marks the 49th anniversary of the first Earth Day. This comes 50 years after the Santa Barbara oil spills...
“April 15 is tax day. Each year, with the onset of spring and the renewal it brings, our nation funds...
“This past week witnessed two significant and connected events. We remembered and celebrated the visionary champion of civil rights, social...
“A national collaborative grassroots coalition to abolish nuclear weapons is rapidly emerging in this country. The effort called “Back from...
“This week marks 73 years since the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, ultimately...
“50 years ago on July 1, 1968 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed. This landmark nuclear arms control treaty...
“Ignoring international partners, world public opinion and action, the U.S took additional steps these past weeks to renounce another international...
“We live in a world where as Benjamin Franklin said in 1789, “Nothing can be said to be certain, except...
