Peace and War

If I had a Hellfire
Missile in the morning,
And another in the evening,
Oh that’d be grand!
I’d take out Iraqis,
I’d take out Ukrainians,
I’d take out folks between,
The Atlantic and Pacific,
Oh that’d be grand!

If I had a drone
I’d buzz it in the morning,
I’d buzz it in the evening,
All over your sand,
I’d take out Yemenis,
I’d take out some Syrians
I’d take out folksy folks between,
Argentina and the Arctic
Oh oh oh that’d be grand

If I had a bomb
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Remarks at event for WorldBeyondWar.org in Washington, D.C., on August 9, 2014.

Welcome.  I’m going to say a few words and then introduce each of our other speakers, who will each speak for 10 minutes or less, and then we’ll open it up for discussion with all of us.

World Beyond War is a brand new organization, just beginning to organize volunteers, raise funds, hire staff, and post advertisements online and around the world. I’m the only paid staff thus far, and that’s read more

President Obama may want us to sympathize with patriotic torturers, he may turn on whistleblowers like a flesh-eating zombie, he may have lost all ability to think an authentic thought, but I will say this for him: He knows how to mark the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin fraud like a champion.

It’s back in Iraq, Jack! Yackety yack! Obama says the United States has fired missiles and dropped food in Iraq — enough food to feed 8,000, enough missiles to kill an unknown number (presumably read more

There’s a wide and mysterious chasm between the stated intentions of the Israeli government as depicted by the U.S. media and what the Israeli government has been doing in Gaza, even as recounted in the U.S. media.

With the morgues full, Gazans are packing freezers with their dead children. Meanwhile, the worst images to be found in Israel depict fear, not death and suffering. Why the contrast? If the Israeli intent is defensive, why are 97% of the deaths Gazan, not Israeli? If the targets read more

Among those who cheer when a cease-fire ends and killing resumes are those who want more Palestinians slaughtered as a form of mass punishment for fictional offenses.  Also among those cheering are certain mainstream U.S. newspaper columnists.  In fact, at least one person is clearly in both of the above categories.

My local newspaper in Charlottesville, Va., printed a column on Friday from Thomas Sowell, distributed by Creators Syndicate but actually written for the right-wing Jewish read more

God sent Noah the rainbow sign

No more water, the fire next time

Said Noah to God, you’d better toe the line

We’ll have no more fire in Palestine

Said God, whoa, Noah, you’ve got some spine

I made you from dust, and that makes you mine

Said Noah to God, now don’t you whine

Just keep your vengeance out of Palestine

Pay attention, said Noah, let me redefine

I made you out of fears that I’ve left behind

And I never meant to make you so asinine

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