25 May, 2023
Creating a Cooperative World?
Creating a Cooperative World? by Robert C. Koehler 935 words “Go back to where you came from.” This is basic...
25 May, 2023
1 May, 2023
The Time Has Come to Build a Viable Global System of Collective Security
The Time Has Come to Build a Viable Global System of Collective Security by Sovaida Maani Ewing 878 words One...
7 Sep, 2022
My Mother the refugee
“Frances, do you remember the time we were all lined up against a wall to be shot?” I was in my early 20s and at an afternoon family gathering. As we sat on the patio chatting, my aunt – my mother’s older sister – asked my mother this question.
18 Aug, 2022
With wars to wage, who can afford peace?
Texas and Arizona have begun busing refugees at their border – at a cost of millions – up to a couple liberal Northern cities . . . let’s see how they like it!
16 Jun, 2022
The Case for Stopping the Ukraine-Russia War
The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days. Now is a critical time to reflect on the case for people of good will to urge their leaders to end the war...
22 Nov, 2021
Most Americans look favorably on global governance
Amid all the flag-waving, chants of “USA, USA,” and other nationalist hoopla that characterize mainstream politics in the United States, it’s easy to miss the fact that most Americans favor global governance...
22 Oct, 2021
Democrats: Don’t Compromise on a Path to Citizenship
Congressional Democrats are now considering a watered-down version of immigration reform, a version they might hope to send through the budget reconciliation process as part of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” spending bill...
6 May, 2021
Battling Xenophobia
A little more than a year ago, as the pandemic tightened its lethal grip on the nation, a 43-year-old agricultural worker named Nancy Silva received a letter from her employer.
8 Apr, 2021
Trapped at the border: Their fate is our fate
You’d think that the “border crisis” begins and ends as a problem for Americans. Oh, what to do, what to do?
3 Jan, 2020
Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex
“In the past year, the struggle over immigration rights continued along a broad array of fronts. There were significant setbacks,...
15 Sep, 2019
Altruists of the world unite!
“The biggest joke on the planet may be the phrase “national security.”…” Author: Robert C. Koehler Published in: North Ogden...
26 Jun, 2019
Revisiting morality in the Age of Dishonesty
“If Donald Trump actually follows through on his recently tweeted promise that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “will begin deporting...
27 Feb, 2019
The Squirming Buddha
“The world hemorrhages. Refugees flow from its wounds. Is there a way to be innocent of this?…” Robert C. Koehler...
8 Nov, 2018
Myths on Race and Invasion of the ‘Caravan Horde’
“Now comes the mid-term elections. Perhaps what is most astonishing for me, as both an anthropologist and educator, is the...
28 Sep, 2018
Abolish Immigration Detention
“If you visit a detainee at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center northeast of Los Angeles, you’ll turn off Highway 395...