22 Apr, 2022
Humanity: Evolving in spite of itself
As wars rage, as cruelty shatters lives across the planet — as nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think it’s time to claim some stunning awareness in this regard.
22 Apr, 2022
9 Apr, 2022
Standing together for the sacred
Standing together for the sacred by Robert C. Koehler 947 words The soul of humanity cries out from the crowded...
10 Feb, 2022
Talk Putin off the ledge
What if we could stop war? What if we could stop Russia from invading Ukraine? Because of one man, Vladimir Putin, and his personal desire to grow an empire, an estimated 50,000 people will die if he invades, tens of millions if it snaps the nuclear tripwire.
8 Feb, 2022
War vs bridges
The worst tragedies are preventable tragedies. We see them in the news: apartment fires due to space heaters, traffic accidents caused by drivers under the influence, or medical errors to name a few.
28 Jan, 2022
Let’s not allow the great powers to destroy the world
The vast destruction wrought by the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945 should have been enough to convince national governments that the game of war was over...
26 Jan, 2022
4 good reasons not to go to war in Ukraine
The last thing any of us need is a war with Russia over the Ukraine. You don’t need to know much about foreign policy to know that.
14 Jan, 2022
Untangling ourselves from the dark side
Guess what? I direct the following insight to, among others, the U.S. Congress, which annually and without comment, with only a few objectors, passes a trillion-dollar (and growing) military budget, by far the largest such budget on Planet Earth...
6 Jan, 2022
The myth of the good war
The myth of the good war by Robert C. Koehler 987 words Love thy enemy? I get a chance to...
3 Jan, 2022
Poisoning ourselves with war
War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret U.S. “strike cell” recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit with a reputation...
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...
13 Oct, 2021
Military suicide: One more reason to abolish war
The Pentagon issued its annual report recently on suicide in the military, and it provides us with very sad news...
2 Sep, 2021
After Afghanistan . . . A Truth Commission?
“Ten members of one family — including seven children — are dead after a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul . .
25 Jul, 2021
Making War Obsolete
Making War Obsolete by John M. Repp 784 words Published in: The Chronicle, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Westside Gazette, City Watch...
16 Jul, 2021
Moral intelligence or nuclear war
One of these days, something will give — the rich, the powerful will suddenly look around cluelessly.
25 Mar, 2021
Waging war… at the supermarket
When a lost soul attempts to reclaim himself in the American way, it becomes, far too often . . . we all know this . . . another mass murder.