9 Mar, 2022
The imperialist roots of Putin’s policy
A key factor that explains Vladimir Putin’s military invasion of Ukraine is traditional Russian imperialism.
9 Mar, 2022
8 Mar, 2022
Putin, Manhood, and Mad Coward Disease
It’s Women’s History Month and in an act of unthinkable atrocity, Mad Vlad Putin is indiscriminately killing women and children across Ukraine. Men, too, of course.
8 Mar, 2022
Stumbling into the ‘sacrifice trap’
Our headlines: “Defiant Zelensky reveals his location in Kyiv… asks for no-fly zone”, “Russia threatens Europe’s gas supplies,” "Biden threatens to cut off Russian oil.”
7 Mar, 2022
Saving Ukraine, saving lives, saving ourselves
I teach nonviolence. Students ask, so, okay, and just how could Ukraine possibly resist Putin and a brutal invasion using nothing but nonviolence?
5 Mar, 2022
War in Ukraine is a test for peace and unity
There are many important questions and conversations emerging about the current war in Ukraine. People want to know who is to blame, what is the cause of this mess, and what will be the way out?
4 Mar, 2022
The frailty of peace in the midst of war
The frailty of peace in the midst of war by Robert C. Koehler 857 words Prior to any analysis of...
3 Mar, 2022
Have mercy
"As the Ukrainian people endure horrors that are all the worse for being absurdly unnecessary, it is difficult to avoid pondering the most horrific absurdity of all:..."
25 Feb, 2022
Truckers, tractors, and Ukraine: What do they tell us about democracy?
Amidst pictures of the new war in Ukraine, the U.S. is anticipating photos of truck convoys arriving in the Washington D.C. area, protesting many issues including vaccine mandates.
24 Feb, 2022
Creating peace means changing the world??
Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? Get the bad guy! Russia: bad. If it invades Ukraine, such a “voluntary war of aggression,” according to David Leonhardt of the New York Times, “would be a sign that Putin believed that Pax Americana was over and that the U.S., the European Union and their allies had become too weak to exact painful consequences.”
18 Feb, 2022
Employing Confidence Building Measures in the Ukraine Crisis
Last week a tiny back-page item in the New York Times reported that the president of Ukraine had come to believe that as much as he wants Ukraine to join NATO, it may be just a dream, suggesting a willingness to forego membership.
14 Feb, 2022
Time for a Neutral and Demilitarized Eastern Europe
Europe has been a flash point for war among both great and small powers for centuries. Conflicts beginning there have been known to spill over outside Europe, sometimes encompassing nearly the entire planet. These wars have unleashed untold human suffering and death, destroyed entire societies and produced campaigns of mass killings and genocide...
7 Feb, 2022
What the Cuban Missile Crisis Can Teach Us About Today’s Ukraine Crisis
Commentators on the current Ukraine crisis have sometimes compared it to the Cuban missile crisis. This is a good comparison?and not only because they both involve a dangerous U.S.-Russian confrontation capable of leading to a nuclear war.
7 Feb, 2022
China’s Careful Dance Around the Ukraine Crisis
Reports out of Washington suggest worry over a Russia-China partnership that would facilitate Vladimir Putin’s presumed ambition to absorb Ukraine and undermine the NATO-based European security system. So let’s examine that relationship to assess the US concern.
3 Feb, 2022
Ukraine and the nuclear paradox??
Somewhere out there in the geopolitical wilderness of Eastern Europe, two powerful beasts stalk each other. One of them is good. One of them is evil. The future of all life on this planet is at stake...
1 Feb, 2022
Brief dispatch from Belize
I've been in Belize with my partner so we can spend time with her son and grandchildren who live there. The pandemic had kept everyone apart for a couple of years. ..