11 Sep, 2024
Who ‘Won’ the Debate?
Who ‘Won’ the Debate? by Robert C. Koehler 874 words If nothing else, Donald Trump is forcing mainstream America out...
11 Sep, 2024
4 Jan, 2024
Dangerous nostalgia
Dangerous nostalgia by Derek Royden 708 words “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”? –?George Santayana,...
4 Oct, 2023
The Morbid Decline of the Republican Party
The Morbid Decline of the Republican Partyby Alan Kanner824 wordsThe morbid decline of the Republican Party is real. When Dick...
21 Sep, 2023
United States of Amnesia
United States of Amnesia by Derek Royden 607 words Just a little more than 20 years ago, on August 19th,...
11 Apr, 2023
Sanctions as Siege Warfare
Sanctions as Siege Warfare by Derek Royden 765 words In the distant past, the one place that people could escape...
8 Apr, 2023
Rescind AUMF Now
Rescind AUMF Now by Robert Moore 781 words Recently, the US Senate voted on a bipartisan basis to rescind the...
29 Mar, 2023
Murder, and War, Begin with Dehumanization
Murder, and War, Begin with Dehumanization by Robert C. Koehler 832 words “Chief Drake said it was too early to...
23 Mar, 2023
Blowing Out the Candles in Iraq
Blowing Out the Candles in Iraq by Robert C. Koehler 814 words I read the news – invasion of Iraq!...
17 Mar, 2023
20 Years After the Invasion of Iraq, Will the Media’s Complicity be Flushed Down the Memory Hole?
20 Years After the Invasion of Iraq, Will the Media’s Complicity be Flushed Down the Memory Hole? by Jeremy Earp...
16 Jan, 2023
Collateral Damage and Other Slippery Slopes
Collateral Damage and Other Slippery Slopes by Derek Royden 480 words Published in: Bandera Bulletin, Beaumont Enterprise, The Newton Kansan,...
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”...