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A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

Photo by Sunguk Kim The US has a long history of not knowing how to end or peacefully resolve vexing international crises and conflicts with less powerful nations.  A triumphalist attitude in the national character is partly to blame, but in part, at least, it is also...

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

Photograph Source: Defense Dept. photo by Helene C. Stikkel – Public Domain Former CIA director Robert M. Gates was on “Face the Nation” last month and demonstrated that there has never been a better truckler in the federal bureaucracy over the past four decades. ...

America’s Off-Shore Concentration Camps

America’s Off-Shore Concentration Camps

Photograph Source: Casa Presidencial – CC0 Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens,...

A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

Photo by Sunguk Kim The US has a long history of not knowing how to end or peacefully resolve vexing international crises and conflicts with less powerful nations.  A triumphalist attitude in the national character is partly to blame, but in part, at least, it is also...

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

Photograph Source: Defense Dept. photo by Helene C. Stikkel – Public Domain Former CIA director Robert M. Gates was on “Face the Nation” last month and demonstrated that there has never been a better truckler in the federal bureaucracy over the past four decades. ...

America’s Off-Shore Concentration Camps

America’s Off-Shore Concentration Camps

Photograph Source: Casa Presidencial – CC0 Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens,...

The Game is On

“We’re flooded in shit, and we’re still searching for a way to shovel it out,” – James Carville While we are angst full over whether or not we’re in a Constitutional Crisis or not, President Donald J. Trump is just about to declare, unlawfully, a state of Insurrection...

Zionism is as Corrupt as Christian Nationalism

Zionism is as Corrupt as Christian Nationalism

Image by Shalev Cohen. As the political and religious left continues to attack Christian nationalism, as a progressive Christian, I find myself increasingly uneasy. It is not that I believe Christian nationalism exists, or that it is dangerous to a pluralistic society...

The Deadly Bait of Aid in Gaza

The Deadly Bait of Aid in Gaza

Photograph Source: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office – CC BY 2.0 At least 27 Palestinians were killed after Israeli soldiers opened fire near an aid distribution hub in Rafah, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. It was the third such incident...

A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

Photo by Sunguk Kim The US has a long history of not knowing how to end or peacefully resolve vexing international crises and conflicts with less powerful nations.  A triumphalist attitude in the national character is partly to blame, but in part, at least, it is also...