==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== George Jean NathanIntimate NotebooksLiterary Personalities And finally, this single critical appraisal of boyhood’s belief, with its amendment and its illumination of his attitude toward spurious and futile heroism and warfare: “But with the memory of the funeral there […]
Last week, President Joe Biden (D-Israel) announced he would be nominating longtime Democratic foreign policy fixture Kurt Campbell to become deputy secretary of state, the number two position in the department. Restrainers might be tempted to breathe a sigh of relief that the acting deputy secretary, Victoria Nuland, didn’t get the nod, as many expected. … Continue reading "Kurt Campbell: The Lobbyist As Diplomat"
When you are faced with an existential threat to your very national survival, this is what you do. You mobilize your economy for all-out struggle and impose heavy-duty “War Taxes” to pay for a dramatic build-up of military capabilities. For instance, between 1939 and 1945 Federal government receipts rose nearly seven-fold – from $6 billion … Continue reading "Uncle Sam Doesn’t Have One Thin Dime for Joe Biden’s $106 Billion War Package"
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With 9,000 dead Palestinians, US can no longer tolerate IDF atrocities; Settler fanatics Ben Gvir and Smotrich rule in Jerusalem, but Israel is bound by UN Charter, UN Declaration of Human Rights and Geneva Conventions; US political ground shifting rapidly in favor of Gaza ceasefire as Durbin, Murphy, and Sanders demand bombing halt; Biden reportedly [...]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts C. Virgil Gheorghiu: Selections on war and peace ==== C. Virgil GheorghiuFrom The Twenty-Fifth Hour (1949)Translated by Rita Eldon Johann had done his military services as a frontier guard. That is where he had learned Serbian. He knew his army regulations, and they could not have changed overnight. […]
As Israeli forces began making limited ground incursions into northern Gaza over the weekend, reports proliferated that Israel was readying plans to expel much or all of the enclave’s population into the neighboring Egyptian territory of Sinai. In part, those fears were fueled by a report last week, published in the Israeli outlet Calcalist, of … Continue reading "Mounting Evidence Suggests Israel May Be Ready to ‘Cleanse’ Gaza"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing two troubles on the foreign front that have received a lot of media attention. The first is that his country is actually receiving much less media attention. For the past month, international attention has been drawn away from his war to another. The second is that he is confronting … Continue reading "Volodymyr Zelensky Is in a Sea of Troubles"
When President George W. Bush formulated the concept of an American Devil’s Island in Cuba, he did so heedless of the damage to the Constitution his experiment in torture and confinement without end would bring about. Bush made the case that torture and confinement at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay would allow the … Continue reading "Guantanamo: A Constitutional Debacle"
