16 Jan, 2025
The Horrific and Wonderful 2024
The Horrific and Wonderful 2024 by Chris Houston 813 words Let’s review. 2024 was an especially violent year. It was...
16 Jan, 2025
21 Oct, 2024
Going Up the Fool’s Gold Escalator
Going Up the Fool’s Gold Escalator by Tom H. Hastings 622 words Labeling From his opening remarks in 2016, straight...
29 May, 2024
Donald Trump and the Uses of Violence
Donald Trump and the Uses of Violence by Andrew Moss 896 words In a wide-ranging interview with a Time Magazine reporter this...
18 Jan, 2024
Choose Respect in This Election Cycle
Choose Respect in This Election Cycle by Rivera Sun 515 words As the primaries heat up and the nation goes...
20 Sep, 2023
Vile
Vile by Tom H. Hastings 578 words “Every day professional librarians sit down with parents to thoughtfully determine what reading...
30 Apr, 2023
Violence and Nonviolence in Sudan: Democracy Under the Knife
Violence and Nonviolence in Sudan: Democracy Under the Knife by Haley Morrow with Tom H. Hastings 823 words The streets...
19 Jan, 2023
Are We on the Verge of Civil War II?
Are We on the Verge of Civil War II? by Robert C. Koehler 978 words Published in: Common Dreams, My...
9 Dec, 2022
The paradox of the New McCarthyism
For Kevin McCarthy to realize his ambition and become the next Speaker of the House he will need to secure the necessary 218 votes. His willingness to say and do (or abandon) whatever is required to increase his political fortune has been demonstrated throughout his career, but it will come with a cost.
9 Nov, 2022
Seeking a vaccine against meanness and hate
When far right Canadian extremist David DePape smashed his hammer into a patio glass door to gain entrance into the San Francisco home Paul Pelosi shares with his wife
30 Oct, 2022
Hammers are for building, not harming
Antifa comes swarming into the street, hurling full soda cans at cops and at windows, believing they alone have the right to "burn it down," ala Pol Pot, start over, Year Zero.
1 Aug, 2022
My weekend with the good guys
You may find this shocking, but a little over a decade ago I spent a weekend learning how to shoot a handgun — under the auspices of the NRA. I wound up earning myself an NRA “personal protection in the home” certificate.
19 Jun, 2022
Embracing the complexity of peace
“Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.” Just imagine! The words are those of Robert Weissman, president of the organization ...
24 Mar, 2022
The deep connections between democracy and nonviolence
In recent weeks, leaders and commentators here and abroad have rightly framed Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine as a struggle between autocracy and democracy.
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?
13 Feb, 2021
‘Whataboutism’ is not a defense
‘Whataboutism’ is not a defense by Wim Laven 749 words Published in: Anchorage Press, LA Progressive, Black News, Westside Gazette,...