16 Jan, 2023
Collateral Damage and Other Slippery Slopes
Collateral Damage and Other Slippery Slopes by Derek Royden 480 words The beginning of the war on terror at the...
16 Jan, 2023
12 Jan, 2023
George W. Bush’s Putin Problem: or Putin’s Bush Problem?
V. Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine is a war crime. Although the “NATO expansion” and apparent effort to encircle Russia on its western border with new NATO members despite the promise of the Bush I administration not to do so, may be considered on the issue of appropriate punishment, it is no defense to the crime.
30 May, 2022
The war in Ukraine: A national debate is needed
Of late (generational dark humor alert), I have begun to feel as though Professor Peabody and his trusty human Sherman have stuffed me into their WayBack Machine and sent me back to 2003...
29 Mar, 2022
A modest proposal for peace in Ukraine
Maybe, as the human world stands at the brink of possible nuclear annihilation given the antiquated launch on warning system of Russia and its 2,000 “small or tactical nuclear weapons” that Putin may have to “use or lose” depending on the fog of war, it is time to actually consider an “equal protection of the law” approach to resolution.
7 Dec, 2021
Choose the river
This holiday season, in a world that feels increasingly conflicted — where so many cultural battle lines have been drawn it’s impossible not to stumble...
17 Nov, 2021
U.S. killer drone attacks kill innocent civilians
As a people represented by our government, what gives us the right to go into other countries and indiscriminately assassinate people? Do we think that “American exceptionalism”...
16 Sep, 2021
A national rite of passage: Beyond war
A recent New York Times op-ed was perhaps the strangest, most awkward and tentative defense of the military-industrial complex — excuse me, the experiment in democracy called America...
1 Jul, 2021
Transcending war: everyone wins
When will we as a nation admit it? Barbara Lee was right. She was the only member of Congress to vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force back in 2001, following the 9/11 disaster, which allowed George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan.
2 Apr, 2021
Ban the Death Penalty for Those with Serious Mental Illness
The death penalty is an antiquated and barbaric form of punishment. This is why most nations have ended it.
19 Mar, 2021
After 30 Years of War Against Iraq, Americans Must Make Reparations
March 20th, 2021 is the 18th anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq. However, the American war against that country did not begin in 2003.
19 Nov, 2020
Beyond simplistic ‘peace’
Beyond simplistic ‘peace’ by Robert C. Koehler 968 words Published in: City Watch LA, Pagosa Daily Post, The News International,...
29 Jan, 2020
Maneuvering hell for our advantage
“When the mainstream media writes about war, even critically, the image that often comes to mind for me is an...
8 Dec, 2019
Envisioning a united world
“Let’s bomb Iowa! Or maybe Texas or Michigan or Nebraska . . . Oh wait, I got confused for a...
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:...
18 Oct, 2017
A country, and a future, worth serving
“America’s endless war quietly moves across the broken nations of the world. Every so often, U.S. soldiers die, as four...