“The war in Ukraine is a war in general for values: life, democracy, freedom. So this is a war all over the world,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. “Today the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine, we are fighting for the values of Europe and the world… That’s why today the American people,” … Continue reading "The Democracy Versus Autocracy Narrative Has a Ukraine Problem"
Despite the horrific war in Gaza and the unprecedented number of casualties, millions of Palestinians in the Middle East and around the world took a brief respite from their collective pain to watch their national football team make history in Doha. The Palestinian team, also known as Fada’ii – the freedom fighter – scored a … Continue reading "History, Olive Trees, and Football: What Keeps Palestinians Strong"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace ==== Agathias ScholasticusFrom the Greek AnthologyTranslated by W. R. Paton So now that the whole world is full of beloved peace…let us institute a contest of poetic skill and start the music of the singer’s dance. *** Columns … … Continue reading →
If Democrats want to defend the Constitution from Trump, here is where they must start; Trump got all the due process he was entitled to when XIV Amendment was ratified in 1868; Beware the perils of hyper-democracy, a key factor in the 1933 destruction of Germany’s Weimar Republic constitution; Friends of the court brief from [...]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Xenophon: Selections on war and peace ==== XenophonMemorabiliaTranslated by E. C. Marchant (Socrates) “Some elements in man’s nature make for friendship: men need one another, feel pity, work together for their common good, and, conscious of the facts, are … … Continue reading →
I was uptown in New York City on September 11, 2001, but I still remember the distant smoke that you could see over the Hudson River. If you had told me then that, thanks to those four hijacked planes and a tiny group of al-Qaeda operatives, my country would launch a 20-plus-year “Global War on … Continue reading "Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror"
The CBS national newscast on Jan. 20 showed the terrible anguish of a father holding a photograph of a little girl who had been killed a few days short of her first birthday by an Israeli bomb in Gaza. This father and another little daughter had just been pulled out of the rubble, fortunate to … Continue reading "Terrible Tragedies Continue in Unjust War"
Another 50 people, including Americans, were wounded.
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nypost.com, February 2, 2024 Biden speaks of ‘hell’ at the National Prayer Breakfast — his speech certainly was James Bovard Does God start sweating when packs of politicians proceed to piously pray in public? If so, heaven needed extra Kleenex Thursday. That’s the day President Biden spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. It’s one of […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Lucian: Rejecting war’s seductive appeal Lucian: War propaganda and its hyperbole ==== LucianThe CynicTranslated by M.D. MacLeod Gold and silver may I not need, neither I nor any of my friends. For from the desire of these grow up … … Continue reading →
