Photograph Source: Anthony Crider – CC BY 2.0 The Neocon logic for needing to defeat Iran and break it into ethnic parts Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United...
Image by Caz Hayek. I was never a huge fan of hardcore punk music. That being said, I have seen dozens if not hundreds of punk shows. From Vancouver, BC’s DOA to Washington, DC’s Bad Brains, I long ago lost count of the number of hours I underwent aural assaults in...
Image by TopSphere Media. Evaggelos Vallianatos paints a bleak yet impassioned portrait of Greece’s demographic collapse, economic subjugation, and geopolitical marginalization. His diagnosis contains many truths. Greece is indeed in a prolonged state of crisis. Its...
Photo by Stéphan Valentin The New York Times gave us an analysis piece on Iran by Roger Cohen, a longtime reporter who covered Iran for the paper more than a decade ago. The gist of the piece, which is headlined “An Islamic Republic with Its Back Against the Wall,” is...
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...