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The Age of Human Arrogance, Part IV
There comes a moment in every age when humanity must confront the mirror it has spent centuries avoiding. That mirror does not flatter us. It reveals a species that has mastered the sciences of destruction while neglecting the simple art of living. It reveals a creature that speaks of peace while perfecting the machinery of […]
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Of Monks and Oligarchs
One of the things I have learned in my more than seven decades of life is that everything has its opposite. For instance, you wouldn’t know up if there was not also a down. You wouldn’t know warmth without cold. Darkness reveals the light. For every peak there is a corresponding valley. In the same […]
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How America Turns War into a National Sacrament
A carpenter does not craft chairs only to hide them under a bed. A tailor does not sew garments just to store them away. So, then—does America manufacture military weapons and war machines only to keep them in the White House’s military depo ? No. They must be sold. And how? Through war. The more […]
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Veterans’ Billboards to Troops: Refuse Illegal Orders to Kill
Rory Fanning at the Great Lakes IL, billboard One of the VFP billboards. See them all here. In response to the serial crimes ordered by the Trump administration in Minneapolis, Gaza and Venezuela, a national veteran’s organization is sponsoring billboards urging active duty and National Guard troops to “follow the law and their conscience” and refuse illegal orders. In […]
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The Children of the World vs. the Conscience of Humanity
On a night when much of the world turns its attention to the image of a child placed in a manger, it becomes necessary to confront a reality that contradicts the season’s sentimentality. While hymns are sung and rituals are performed, countless children lie tonight under rubble, under hunger, and under fear. The children of […]
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A Cry from the Ashes: Who Still Has a Conscience?
The world—eight billion strong—stands at a precipice. In Gaza, a people are being systematically pulverized, displaced, and erased. And the architects of this devastation—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the governments that arm him—continue their campaign with brazen impunity. This is not merely a geopolitical crisis. It is a moral apocalypse. Where are the men and […]
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Malcolm X: Man of Peace
Malcolm was our manhood, our living black manhood. — Ossie Davis Treat me like a man, or kill me. — Malcolm X[1] February 21, 2025 marked sixty years since Malcolm X was gunned down in a hail of bullets at the Audobon Ballroom in New York City as he was starting to give a speech. […]
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Moral Suicide
Western societies are committing moral suicide in Palestine. Collective suicide always is an ugly business to observe – especially when it’s your own country debasing itself. Yet, we seem unfazed. Indeed, we redouble our acts of inhumanity as if reiteration somehow normalizes the perversity of what we have done. The systematic insulating of ourselves from […]
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Biden and Trump Battle over a Rattle
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. — Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass, December 1871 Once you understand that profound poem, you are ready to fathom the great debate between our dumb and dumber candidates for the Highchair in […]
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Active Duty, Veterans, G.I. Rights Group Launch Campaign for Military Personnel
As more members of the military and State Department resign over U.S. funding of the genocide in Gaza, a new campaign was launched this week to allow military personnel to directly contact their congressional representatives. Initiated by active-duty military members, veterans and G.I. rights groups, “Appeal for Redress v2,” is modeled after the 2006 Appeal for […]
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