21 Apr, 2017
Beyond redemptive violence
“Sometimes our tame and compliant media upchucks a piece of truth. For instance: “American officials had predicted that the missile…”...
20 Apr, 2017
Don’t get distracted by a carrier group wandering around Southeast Asia. Get real about preventing war.
“During further escalation of tensions between the United States and North Korea, pundits and other experts are trying to figure...
13 Apr, 2017
The mental limits of war
“A Morning Consult poll winks at me from my inbox: 57 percent of Americans support more airstrikes in Syria…” Robert...
30 Mar, 2017
How many civilians can we kill?
“And so . . . another “precision” bomb strike in America’s war against terror. This was the scene in Mosul...
23 Mar, 2017
The mosque that disappeared
“We committed a quiet little war crime the other day. Forty-plus people are dead, taken out with Hellfire missiles while...
21 Dec, 2016
Pledging Allegiance
“I pledge allegiance to . . . what? The Electoral College, to no one’s serious surprise, voted Donald Trump in...
20 Dec, 2016
Steer Your Way
“Since the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, I’ve given daily thought to the more alarming...
27 Oct, 2016
US Uranium Weapons Have Been Used in Syria
“This month, the Pentagon admitted it has used uranium weapons in attacks inside Syria — violating its public promise last...
23 Oct, 2016
War or Peace?
“The most consequential statement by Secretary Clinton in last night’s debate was her pronouncement that a no-fly zone over Syria...
11 Oct, 2016
Delusions of worthy wars
“Fifteen years ago, on October 19th 2001, Donald Rumsfeld addressed B-2 bomber crews at Whiteman AFB in Missouri, as they...
7 Oct, 2016
The Politics of Fear
“Well, OK, let’s think about these words of Jill Stein for a moment, as the 2016 presidential race enters, oh...
19 Sep, 2016
Human Decency Moves Civilization Forward
“Remember a semi-comic Cold War movie, “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”? A deadly Soviet Union nuclear submarine”...
8 Sep, 2016
War vs. Democracy
“The paradox of democracy is that it depends on the integrity of those who have the most to lose if...
26 Aug, 2016
The Sane Candidate: Which Representatives Will End the Endless Wars?
“”You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake,” said Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected...
22 Aug, 2016
The valley of the Somme in 1916 and now
“I was interested in WW I because my father fought in it and I wanted to learn more about what...