What Would You Say This War Is About, Tom Knapp?

Bakhmut, 2023. State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. More than 40 years after its release, an exchange in the opening scene of Warren Beatty’s Academy Award-winning film Reds floats to the front of my mind...

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Bringing Gaza Home

In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this September, I was arrested with a long time activist friend, Cliff Kindy, for blocking the entrance to a Raytheon Corp. facility.  We both requested jury trials and the dates were set for mid-December and early January. Prosecutors dropped...

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Christmas Here – and in Nagasaki, 1945

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Since this is Timmy/Zimmy week here, and elsewhere, let’s just start with ecumenical Bob’s wildest Christmas song, “Must Be Santa.” Then, in case you missed the return of Darlene...

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Panama and Trump’s Throwback Imperialism

Trump threatened to steal another country’s land again: Trump reiterated his intentions to take back the Panama Canal, after threatening he would in a Truth Social post on Saturday. Trump said that the United States is being “ripped off” at the Panama Canal and has...

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