4 Mar, 2021
Taking war personally
Taking war personally By Robert C. Koehler Published in: Common Dreams, City Watch, LA Progressive, Uncommon Thought, Free Press, The...
4 Mar, 2021
2 Mar, 2021
Blood for Oil
Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team...
26 Jun, 2020
Battleground States
“The time for manufacturing of weapons of war has passed as a viable industry for our nation, despite the way...
18 Mar, 2020
Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message
“U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the...
8 Jan, 2020
“The people do not want war!”
“These were the words that did it, that knocked the composure out of me. I was standing at what felt...
26 Oct, 2019
Trident is the crime
“On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine...
20 Oct, 2019
Taking next steps toward nuclear abolition
“My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it...
12 Jul, 2019
Remnants of War
“Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and...
3 Jul, 2019
An honorable course in Iran: End sanctions, resume dialogue
“Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about…” Author:...
27 Mar, 2019
Every War Is a War Against Children
“We, in the United States, have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war even as we...
10 Mar, 2019
Judging U.S. War Crimes
“Chelsea Manning, who bravely exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military, is again imprisoned in a U.S. jail. On International...
8 Mar, 2019
Can We Divest from Weapons Dealers?
“Impoverished people living in numerous countries today would stand a far better chance of survival, and risk far less trauma…”...
13 Feb, 2019
What it Really Takes to Secure Peace in Afghanistan
“Constant military surveillance of Afghans yields almost no real intelligence about the problems they face each day. An unusual group...
25 Jul, 2018
A world designed by playground bullies
“As the week’s news slaps against my consciousness like road slush, some fragments sting more than others. For instance:…” Robert...
22 May, 2018
Scourging Yemen
“On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that...