28 Apr, 2022
“Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” I truly wish these words of Ike, uttered seven decades ago, were no longer quite so relevant. Perhaps what he should have called it was a “cross of irony.”
4 Apr, 2022
Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies.
17 Aug, 2021
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...
14 Jul, 2021
Once upon a time, American leaders only went to war when, in accordance with the Constitution, Congress declared it.
23 Dec, 2020
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nailed it once again, tweeting her frustration and despair a few days ago..."
2 Oct, 2020
Dear Fellow White Male Boomers, We need your help to end the presidency of tax cheat Donald Trump. Even as he uses every dirty trick he can to become dictator-in-chief, white male baby boomers must help defeat him.
“The war in Afghanistan, America’s longest, has cost about 2,300 US lives, over 20,000 wounded, and about $1 trillion. Now,...
“In the history of the United States and its history of interventionism, the recent attacks on oil tankers in the...
“The frustration I experience with dishonest politics reached a peak with Memorial Day this year…” Author: Wim Laven Published in:...
“When I ask a class of college students how many have heard of M? Lai, only a few if any...
“America’s endless war quietly moves across the broken nations of the world. Every so often, U.S. soldiers die, as four...
“How in heck did Armistice Day become Veterans Day? Established by Congress in 1926 to “perpetuate peace through good will...
“The epic Ken Burns-Lynn Novick series, “The Vietnam War,” ends with the Beatles’ classic “Let It Be” in the background…”...
“OK, I get it. Soldiers suffer, soldiers die in the wars we wage, and the commander in chief has to,...
3 Apr, 2017
“Fifty years ago this April 4, a year to the day before he was murdered, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
