The Way It Looked Fifty Years Ago
“The war is simply an obscenity, a depraved act by weak and miserable men, including all of us, who have allowed it to go on and on with endless fury and destruction — all of…
Category: The War-making State
The Good Old Days before Trump (Peas in a Pod)
In November 2010 Ralph Nader wrote an imaginary letter penned by former president George W. Bush to his successor President Barack Obama. Here’s an excerpt… The Leftists are always trying to have your policies…
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Come you masters of war $8.7 Trillion
Assange by Andrew Wimmer
There are several journalists worth reading in order to understand what is happening with Julian Assange and what is at stake. I’d suggest, too, that you avoid all media coverage, at least until you have…
“Using Hatred to Fight Hatred Is the Surest Way to Create Even More Hatred”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change Immediately before I read this book by Nhat Hanh, I read David Grossman on the advances in psychology to get us to kill, to…
We’ll Always Have Berkeley
Letter/3 (Dissidents/4) —The Book of Mev In August 1995 as Mev and I were getting settled in our new home in St. Louis, we learned that Steve Kelly had been arrested for a Plowshares action…
We’ll Always Have Berkeley
Letter/3 (Dissidents/4) —The Book of Mev In August 1995 as Mev and I were getting settled in our new home in St. Louis, we learned that Steve Kelly had been arrested for a Plowshares action…
Books To Read before We Die
Recently, I gave a bibliophilic friend the new book by James Mustich, 1,000 Books To Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List. It is a delight to peruse the tome, as the author and his…
Facing the Burden of History
Dorothee Sölle, The Arms Race Kills even without War This is a short collection of talks (rallies, radio programs) mostly given to German audiences in the days when West Germany still existed. The context for…
A U.S. American Voice, Laotian Voices
Fred Branfman, Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War (first published in 1972) If our country had decency, at the death of Fred Branfman there would have been coverage, interviews, retrospectives,…