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Saturday June 10, 2023
Robert C Koehler

  • July 23, 2022

    Good guys with guns

    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...

  • May 23, 2022

    Racist attacks

    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,...

  • April 30, 2022

    Suicide budget

    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...

  • April 16, 2022

    Nuclear insanity

    Here’s the beginning of a recent, miniscule Reuters story: “The global market for nuclear missiles and bombs should surpass $126 billion within...

  • March 21, 2022

    Transcending certainties

    Peace, in the deepest sense – in the midst of war – requires a clarity and courage well beyond the boundaries of linear understanding. The...

  • February 19, 2022

    The brink of disaster

    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...

  • December 20, 2021

    War is poisoning us

    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...

  • November 22, 2021

    Pity war distills

    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...

  • September 25, 2021

    Afghanistan and beyond

    Suddenly there’s major concern across the country – from the mainstream media to every last rock-ribbed Republican – for the rights of Afghan...

  • September 11, 2021

    Endless war

    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...