The soul of humanity cries out from the crowded streets of Moscow, from steps near the Kremlin, as a man – an artist in the deepest sense –...
Peter Isaacson, writing in Fair Observer, seems to be saying … oh my God, democracy is a cliché, a big sham. I stand up, put my hand on my heart,...
Guess what? I direct the following insight to, among others, the US Congress, which annually and without comment, with only a few objectors, passes...
“What,” Todd Miller asks in his book, Build Bridges, Not Walls , “if we were to allow ourselves to imagine a world without borders? What if we...
Let’s not forget: We are standing at the edge of global change. I believe what’s visible in this fleeting moment is our own evolution.Let’s...
The nation has less than two weeks left to live in its comfort zone of platitudes. This is by far the most ominous election buildup of my lifetime....
Plastics is everywhere … not just in grocery store aisles and department stores and every other commercial outlet you can think of, not to mention...
One thing about a pandemic: It’s inclusive. We cannot survive it, move beyond it, by protecting merely some people. We have to protect everyone.Of...
These are places we would bomb: Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, Congo, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Panama, Iraq,...
I’ve been thinking about the paradoxical courage of nonviolent resistance, nonviolent demand for change and the cessation of “legal” wrongs...
“Over these last few years, given the wars it has waged and the international treaties it has arbitrarily reneged on, the U.S. government...
Mix a little socialism in with the oil and war may be unavoidable. Thus, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, talking about Venezuela: “The president...
Kenneth C Davis wrote in a New York Times op-ed more than a decade ago, pointing out, among much else, Benjamin Franklin’s contempt for the newly...
Back in 2006, a few years after the invasion of Iraq, I wrote: “Bush’s war to promote terror – the perfect self-sustaining fear machine –...
Donald Trump stands cluelessly at the edge of history, exemplifying everything wrong with the past, oh, 10,000 years or so. The necessity for...
