As I write this safe and sound in my nice little suburban home, having just signed another online petition calling for an end to the horror in Gaza, I begin to question what I have accomplished in over 40 years of calling for peace and understanding among the peoples of the world.  Who besides me [...]

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This will be remembered as the year of the big story.  The Democratic primary fight pitting the first female candidate with a chance of being nominated by a major party against the first Black candidate; leading, as expected, to one of them winning the White House.  The presidential election culminated in the first Black man [...]

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I have been a Phil Ochs fans for as long as I can remember.  I admit to deriving pleasure from how young people on YouTube are resurrecting his lyric to shine light on the current political malaise.  Phil’s words are as timely today as when they were written.  For that my pleasure is tinged with [...]

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Horrors illustrating the depth of human depravity and villiany seem to be a matter of course as we move into this new millenium.  Even the beacon of democracy and freedom, the United States engages in ‘extraordinary rendition’ and ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’.  Wonderful euphemisms for acceptable torture techniques in the former and sending prisoners somewhere else [...]

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  Remembrance Day is fast approaching.  On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 the guns fell silent across Europe.  The Great War was over.  Later it would be known as the War to End all War and finally after we did it again as just plain World War One.  [...]

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