23 Jul, 2019
Rotary International as a model for statecraft
“The established paradigm of nation-states formulating their policies on the basis of a limited vision of self-interest is dissolving on...
29 Jun, 2019
The Trump way of war
“Notice how similar are the Trump administration’s interactions with Iran and North Korea? The pattern” Author: Mel Gurtov Published in:...
16 May, 2019
War’s unanswered questions
““Over these last few years, given the wars it has waged and the international treaties it has arbitrarily reneged on,...
9 Apr, 2019
Why refusing to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terror organization keeps us out of war
“A “Twitter-stamp” by Secretary of State Pompeo made it official. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is now designated as a...
27 Mar, 2019
Every War Is a War Against Children
“We, in the United States, have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war even as we...
13 Feb, 2019
The music that’s in all of us
“And suddenly the music burst through the borders. This was in May of 1999, in a city in the Netherlands...
6 Feb, 2019
Understand the disease to cure it
“Two days ago, on February 4, 2019, the bodies of a handsome apparently successful husband and beautiful successful wife—Denise and...
6 Feb, 2019
The ultimate human idiocy
“What’s the ultimate form of human idiocy? I nominate religious suicide bombings, in which fanatics kill themselves to murder “infidels”...
10 Jan, 2019
A green future is one without war
“Donald Trump and his base — the leftover scraps of Jim Crow, the broken shards of racist hatred that once...
2 Jan, 2019
A loose cannon for peace?
“Circle the wagons! Apparently what’s under assault is war itself, or so the Establishment believes, in the wake of the...
1 Jun, 2018
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here
“America does what it wants. This is obvious, except it’s also monstrously unnerving. Let’s at least add some quote marks:...
25 May, 2018
The War Tree
“Picture War, with a capital W, as a giant tree. The branches are the individual wars, some great like WWII...
15 May, 2018
Imagining Alternatives to More War in Syria
“Last month we read of yet another missile attack on Syria paid for by U.S., British, and French taxpayers as...
27 Nov, 2017
Drowning love in our gene pool (Another modest proposal)
“uman history is a history of war. From the killing between tribes living in caves or huts to modern armies...
18 Oct, 2017
A country, and a future, worth serving
“America’s endless war quietly moves across the broken nations of the world. Every so often, U.S. soldiers die, as four...