21 May 2010
The learning curve of peace
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Robert Koehler
“Why are we violent, but not illiterate?”
This question, originally posed by writer Colman McCarthy, was asked at the Midwest Regional Department of Peace conference, which was held last weekend outside Detroit. It cuts to the core...
17 May 2010
Getting smart about stupid communication
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David Swanson
Reducing political discourse to advertising slogans loses almost everything of value. Without lengthy books that develop complex ideas, we'd be so lost we'd never produce a worthwhile bumper sticker. The notion that facts don't matter...
17 May 2010
The age of space-solar energy: Innovation in the public interest
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William Cox
The industrial revolution has been driven for the past two centuries by the burning of hydrocarbons, first by coal in the Age of Steam, and then by oil and natural gas in the Age of Petroleum; however, as the flow of these fossil fuels...
16 May 2010
McChrystal: Beheadings of our allies simply to be expected
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David Swanson
How can we stand to live in a country where this exchange is shown live on tv and nobody comments? REPORTER: [I]n Marja there are reports -- credible reports -- of intimidation and even beheading of local people who work with your forces....
13 May 2010
Obama scraps Iraq withdrawal
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David Swanson
So, we elected a president who promised a withdrawal from Iraq that he, or the generals who tell him what to do, is now further delaying. And, of course, the timetable he's now delaying was already a far cry from what he had promised as a...
13 May 2010
Dark Green
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Robert Koehler
This is what happens sometimes when you play God:

“Birds dropped from the air. The sky rained mud. And, as men from the rig struggled to save themselves from the aftermath of (the) explosion . . . the Gulf of Mexico itself...

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