1 Sep, 2025
A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? Inconceivable
A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? Inconceivable by Mel Gurtov 848 words Four US presidents have been awarded the Nobel...
1 Sep, 2025
8 Aug, 2025
The Stolen Children
The Stolen Children by Wim Laven 810 words Amongst the worst things I have been exposed to as a Doctor...
27 Oct, 2024
An Open Letter to Vice President Kamala Harris on US Middle East Policy
An Open Letter to Vice President Kamala Harris on US Middle East Policy by Mel Gurtov 590 words Dear Madam...
1 Jun, 2024
Voting for the Lesser Evil?
Voting for the Lesser Evil? by Robert C. Koehler 902 words The election paradox looms. Do I calm myself down,...
10 Apr, 2023
From Nationalist Isolation to Global Citizenship
From Nationalist Isolation to Global Citizenship by Lawrence S. Wittner 941 words For many years, a portion of the world...
16 Jul, 2022
White supremacists want ‘their’ country back
One thing I notice as I read the growing warnings that this is the case is the assumption that suddenly the USA has become a divided nation...
17 Aug, 2021
The Afghanistan debacle
Over a nearly 20-year period, the war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost about $2.2 trillion and resulted in more than 240,000 deaths, military and civilian, on all sides...
27 Sep, 2017
The courage to kneel
“Kneel, touch the earth. “Oh say can you see . . . ” The anthem starts. I can feel the...
11 Jul, 2017
Smoking gun?
“With the revelation today (July 11) that Donald Trump, Jr. leaped at the opportunity to find some dirt on Hillary...
16 Nov, 2016
The Trump Team: Loyal and Dangerous
“Personnel appointments provide a useful glimpse into what policy will be. Senior-level appointees are the policy shapers…” Mel Gurtov Published...
30 Oct, 2016
Supremes, the Senate and the Dirty Donalds, Segretti to Trump
“OK, the Republicans said when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away late last winter, we are not going to...
25 Sep, 2016
Where Is That Wasteful Government Spending?
“In early September 2016, Donald Trump announced his plan for a vast expansion of the U.S. military, including 90,000 new...
19 Sep, 2016
Your rights and our election
“Rights. We are inundated with a great deal of loose talk about “rights.” What sorts of them? Legal rights. Civil...
19 Jul, 2016
Imagine
“With our daily news running to atrocity after tragedy, Americans are frightened and angry. Some are resonating with hate talk...
9 Jun, 2016
Many Fingers on the Button
“If we had a nickel for everyone who has muttered some variation on “I worry about Donald Trump’s finger on...