==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Dio Cassius: Is it not dreadful that we become engaged in war after war? Dio Cassius: Weeping and lamenting the fratricide of war Dio Cassius: When peace was announced the mountains resounded ==== Dio CassiusFrom Roman HistoryTranslated by Earnest Cary … … Continue reading →
The blame game has commenced; America’s Ukraine hawks have met the enemy, and it is us. Informed observers here and abroad acknowledge that the war of attrition between Russia and US- and NATO- funded Ukraine has taken roughly half a million Ukrainian lives, and that, given Russian superiority in manpower and materiel, Kiev would be … Continue reading "Neocons Blame America First"
Recently, The Wall Street Journal joined the flood of American mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, Politico and several others, in preparing the American public for a Russian victory. After nearly two years, over $113 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money spent at horrendous cost in life and limb has put Ukraine in a … Continue reading "Wall Street Journal Sets Standard for Irresponsible Journalism in Ukraine"
Here we go again. The “Joe Biden” thing just started another war in Yemen without a constitutionally compliant declaration by Congress. And it/they did so against a rag-tag tribe of desert insurgents who cannot possibly harm the liberty or security of the American homeland. After all, the most fearsome missile possessed by the Houthi is … Continue reading "To Hell With Fighting the Houthis!"
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Martin Luther King, Jr., hero for peace. It’s sad that the word “hero” is so often modified by or married to “war” in history. He’s a war hero, we say, without giving it too much thought. As if wars are somehow ennobling and sublime. Waging peace is … Continue reading "Peace Hero Martin Luther King Jr."
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Dio Cassius: “How long are we to be waging war?” Dio Cassius: Weeping and lamenting the fratricide of war Dio Cassius: When peace was announced the mountains resounded ==== Dio CassiusRoman HistoryTranslated by Earnest Cary When Pertinax as a … … Continue reading →
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Diodorus Siculus: Alexander’s first encounter with military glory Diodorus Siculus: History is more than the recording of wars ==== Diodorus SiculusThe Library of HistoryTranslated by Russel M. Geer In the Assembly at Athens, while the men of property were … … Continue reading →
Hitler’s lawyer Carl Schmitt defended his master after the bloody purge of dissidents known as the Night of the Long Knives by claiming that the Fuehrer was able to legislate through his actions, i.e. his murders; To defend freedom of navigation in Red Sea against Houthi piracy, vandalism, and international anarchy, Biden orders powerful air [...]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war James Fenimore Cooper: Selections on peace and war ==== James Fenimore CooperSatanstoeor,The Littlepage ManuscriptsA Tale of the Colony “The armies consume everything they can get – soldiers resembling locusts, in this respect.” There is always much of exaggeration in […]
