Impeach Trump — Do it Now
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Western Refugee Policies Are One Endless Evian Conference
Evian is not just a bottled water company. And the town of Évian-les-Baines in France on the south shore of Lake Geneva is not just a location for luxury hotels. It’s also the location where, in July 1938, the first international effort was ever made (or feigned) to alleviate a refugee crisis.
The crisis was the Nazi treatment of Jews. The representatives of 32 nations and 63 organizations (plus some 200 journalists covering
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“Preemptive war could risk millions of casualties. But….”
According to the Washington Post, “Preemptive war could risk millions of casualties. But . . . .”
Is that a statement that should ever be followed by a “but”? I contend that it isn’t. There isn’t something that can outweigh risking millions of casualties. The Washington Post thinks otherwise. Here’s a fuller quote:
“If Mr. Kim is creating the foundations for a biological weapons program, it should serve as one more warning of the escalating threat
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Talk Nation Radio: U.S. Military Promotes New Genetic Extinction Technology
Jonathan R. Latham, PhD is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr. Latham is also the Director of the
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Charlottesville Finally Gets A Peace Monument
Well, we tried a petition, and I tried a TED talk (in fact two of em), and the Daily Progress daily newspaper, and Channel 19 four times: one, two, three, four, and Channel 29 too. No opposition whatsoever has been voiced to the idea of putting up a peace monument in Charlottesville, a town famously full of war monuments, including several for a war that has fallen out of favor.
Finally, the Charlottesville City Council has listened. A peace monument is not only in the works but is already visible
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Christmas Truce
Remember the Christmas Truces. Go forth and do likewise!
A Christmas truce letter is here.
And here’s a script that turns the above letter into a play that can be performed on Christmas by anyone who likes: PDF.
Here’s an account from someone who was there: Bullets and Billets.
Eyewitness account from Frank Richards.
Here’s Belleau Wood lyrics by Joe Henry and Garth Brooks.
Here’s Christmas in the Trenches lyrics by John McCutcheon, and videos below.
Here is a 2-page document
Sun Tzu: The Ass of War
Sun Tzu, whose book, The Art of War, was written some 2,500 years ago during a period of constant war, and popularized in the West some 100 years ago (just in time for industrialized warfare), is the leading example of what’s wrong with digging up ancient platitudes as guides for action today in the areas of war and peace.
“That the impact of your army may be like a grindstone dashed against an egg — this is effected by the science of weak points and strong.”
This “wisdom”
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76 Years of Pearl Harbor Lies
Donald Trump is tweeting about a particular spot in Hawaii. He visited it recently on his way to threaten war in Asia. It’s a big feature this week in lots of U.S. magazines and newspapers. It has a lovely name that sounds like murder and blood because Japanese airplanes engaged in large-scale murder there in 1941: Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor Day today is like Columbus Day 50 years ago. That is to say: most people still believe the hype. The myths are still maintained in their blissful unquestioned
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