Youtube screenshot. President Trump announced that the US had bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. Then he messaged that “now is the time for peace.” No, it is time for war. No negotiating, just giving Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu precisely what he...
Photograph Source: hellolittlemolly – CC BY 2.0 Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand Bazaar. People all over the world want peace, he said, but governments won’t let them have it. I thought...
Thomas Jefferson, an 1805 portrait by Rembrandt Peale – Public Domain “When in the Course of human events…” You remember those resounding words which are as memorable as “We the People…” The brothers who signed the USA’s founding document might have called it a...
Photograph Source: Anthony Crider – CC BY 2.0 In the 1960s the United States government lied to the American people and took us into a terrible war in Vietnam. The result of that war was that over 58,000 young Americans died and many more came back wounded both in...
Photograph Source: tedeytan – CC BY-SA 2.0 All the old tropes have been resurrected to entice us into another military fiasco. A country that poses no threat to us, or to its neighbors, is on the verge of acquiring a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) that imperils our...
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The Pentecost Sunday service had just concluded. We were on the red stone porch outside the entrance to St. David’s Cathedral in the city of that name in South Wales. The clergy greeted us. The canon of the cathedral asked me if I had all my worldly belongings on my...
June 1 to June 6 Here’s a U.S. senator urging Israel to sink a boat bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza and kill activist Greta Thunberg. This is no idle threat, either. In 2014, Israel attacked the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, killing nine people on board the...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power! —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I. As geopolitical tensions between Israel and Iran have escalated into open warfare, a familiar voice has re-emerged in Western...
On the one hand, I feel the need to say something about the US/Israel-Iran war; On the other hand, I saw it coming and said it right after October 7th, 2023, in “Israel’s Solution to Gaza: War on Iran.” And I’m really tired and depressed to see it happening as was...
Image by Ted Griswold. Donald Trump’s agenda will never win Los Angeles—at least not in the traditional sense, and certainly not through votes or on the ideological terrain. But the campaign of terror being unleashed upon the city is not about a conventional victory....