I had been writing about guns for years, often annoying the hell out of people who were otherwise good friends. One of those folks was the late Doug...
Violence is situation normal, not just in the United States but across much of the planet. Often the violence is simply an abstraction, aka, war,...
In 2021, the human race, in order to keep itself safe, invested $2.1 trillion in the ability to make war – to kill one another, even to end life...
Here’s the beginning of a recent, miniscule Reuters story: “The global market for nuclear missiles and bombs should surpass $126 billion within...
Peace, in the deepest sense – in the midst of war – requires a clarity and courage well beyond the boundaries of linear understanding. The...
Women’s rights – in reality, these are a nuisance to many US conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the...
War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret US ‘strike cell’ recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit...
The USA and its allies are waging multiple wars in the Middle East. One of them is public and respectable: No war crimes permitted! But the other...
Suddenly there’s major concern across the country – from the mainstream media to every last rock-ribbed Republican – for the rights of Afghan...
According to Brown University’s Costs of War Project, Tom Engelhardt notes, the United States has so far spent $6.4 trillion on the so-called war...
As a peace journalist, I usually begin by focusing on the media. Consider this recent Washington Post piece regarding the use of nuclear weapons....
An end to war? It's certainly necessary, but is it politically possible?The fate of House Resolution 476, introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee, will give...
Will Joe Biden end the endless wars or won't he?I have serious doubts that he has the will or political acumen to do so. But that's only a fragment...
As the New Year asserts itself – a year that begins in global lockdown and political shock-and-awe – an extraordinary question emerges: Are we...
“One major difference between GOP and Dems is that leverage their right flank to gain policy concessions and generate enthusiasm, while Dems lock...
So here’s an odd, mostly overlooked scrap of recent news: Donald Trump wants to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq before he leaves office, and...
“This was not an attack on history. This is history. It is one of those rare historic moments whose arrival means things can never go back to how...
This is so much bigger than personal accountability. Yes, the four police officers present at the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd in...
What if the vaccine that’s eventually developed is so large in scope it includes the words of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Pope...
If you want expertise, don’t bother reading any further here. I know as much about coronavirus as any stunned disbeliever with a sudden,...
“Excuse me, occasionally it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy.”I don’t think I’ve heard that much honesty from...
It began more than a decade ago, in South America, when Ecuador and then Bolivia gave constitutional recognition to Pachamama – Mother Earth –...
Yes, we have a serious problem at the border – indeed, at every border we create and defend with force of arms and bureaucratic...
“I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the Earth, even though I knew that this was...
There are things that go unquestioned in the national discussion. Because this is a country wrapped in fear and self-importance, the basic,...
Donald Trump and his base – the leftover scraps of Jim Crow, the broken shards of racist hatred that once were the American mainstream and made...
Thousand Oaks, California: a city torn apart by wildfire and gunfire. Both are unnatural disasters.“This is the new abnormal,” Gov Jerry Brown...
“They take advantage of that opportunity and they shoot into a crowd, no matter who they hit.”The news this past weekend emerging from my fair...
Consider the limited thinking that produces a concept such as ‘border security’. The essential assumption here is that the United States of...
Let’s open the classroom doors – all of them. Open up the schools, open up America, looking for the lost souls. “Woo hoo!” he shouted as he...
Repeal and replace? How about the Second Amendment? “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the...
The cries of loss and anguish become public, at last. A million young people seize the truth: “Half of my seventh grade class was affected by gun...
Perhaps the best political news of the Trump era has been the emergence of sanctuary cities – city governments valuing the presence of immigrants...
Incoming! Incoming! Uh . . . pardon me while I interrupt this false alarm to quote Martin Luther King:“Science investigates,” he says in The...
In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, as in the wake of all the high-profile mass shootings that preceded it, the big question looms: Why? John...
Finally it comes down to this: Some people are expendable. In certain parts of the world – where we and our allies are waging war – the...
Old wounds break open. Deep, encrusted wrongs are suddenly visible. The streets flow with anger and solidarity. The past and the future meet. The...
It’s too easy simply to blame Donald Trump for the void that’s suddenly apparent at the center of American government – or will be...
Change is coming, apparently, whether we want it or not. Bernie Sanders and the progressive revolution were neatly, efficiently stiffed by the...
It’s the smallest thing in the world. Does the tennis ball land inside the line or outside? But somehow, as I watched this 60-second YouTube...
As I watched “unity” take hold of the Democratic Party this week, the believer in me wanted to be imbibe it – bottoms up. Michelle...
