Tuesday, May 27, 2014

It Is Not the World That Needs Peace

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It is not the world that needs peace; it is people.  When people in the world are at peace within,  the world will be at peace. ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Personal Reflections on Memorial Day

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My great-grandfather Frederick Smith Strong's grave at Arlington National Cemetery. We buried my grandfather, Brigadier General Freder...

Arundhati Roy: Laying Siege To Empire

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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our ar...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Do Your Little Bit of Good Where You Are

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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have  chosen the side of the oppressor.  If an elephant has its foot on the ...

Vincent Harding: Is America Possible? A Letter to My Young Companions on the Journey of Hope

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VINCENT HARDING, IN MEMORIAM — CIVILITY, HISTORY AND HOPE Civil rights veteran Vincent Harding died this week at the age of 82. He ...

Daniel Ellsberg: We Are In a National Crisis

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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. I believe we are in a national crisis, which ju...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Howard Zinn: Truth Has a Power of Its Own

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The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of th...

Howard Zinn: Seeing All Children Everywhere As Our Own

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I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look  if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at...

Father Daniel Berrigan: A Change of Heart

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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US a...