The Horrific Situation in Gaza
Like many people there are mornings when we are unable to listen to the news taking place in Gaza as it is so deeply distressing that the mind shuts down…
Hugh J Curran
Tariffs, Territorial Ambitions And Other Trump Threats
Among tariffs, territorial ambitions and other threats to America's well-being by Pres. Trump, one of the more severe threats may be his willful ignorance concerning the severity of climate change. Michael Mann, one of America's most highly regarded climatologists, noted that the Trump Administration has…
Proem: Traumas & Scholasticide
We are closed in, and the key is turnedon our uncertainty…We had fed the heart on fantasies,the heart’s grown brutal from the fare,more substance in our enmitiesthan in our love;…
Sanctioning The ICC By The Congress
Voting in favor of sanctioning the International Criminal Court of Justice, (ICC) which had ordered Israel to take steps to prevent genocide in Gaza, was dismaying. Such decisions to sanction the…
Gaza’s Afflictions (a Proem)
May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain. (Oath of Maimonides) Empathy will never be exhausted as gaza schools and hospitalsare torn asunder by…
The Two Truths
Yesterday, I interviewed a refugee Ukrainian family in transition from their homeland looking for a permanent place to settle. They were being visited by evangelical church friends. Since I was…
War Trauma And Forgetting
Our memories are often suppressed by trauma, a word derived from “Traumatiko”, a wound or mental shock. Examples of traumatic events are people being compelled to leave their homes due…
Netanyahu: An Oliver Cromwell For Our Time
“When plunder [and dispossession] becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes…
The Moral Consequences of Gazan War
The moral high ground has been lost by Israel in the Gaza onslaught while it attempts to avenge the Hamas attacks on Oct 7. The leaders of the Knesset seem…
Irish History Resonates In Gaza
“I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn/ Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.”― W. H. Auden, There were elements in Ireland whose anger against Britain…
Gun Violence: What Can Be Said After So Much Grief?
What more can be said with so much grief, after the spate of recent gun violence around the country? Can anything be added that has not already been said. The…
“A cautionary tale” for the Ukraine war
There are some fascinating similarities between the Crimean War of the 1850s and the Ukraine War of 2022. According to Norman Rich, author of “The Crimean War” its main purpose…
The Welshman Who Founded Donetsk, Ukraine
In the 18th century a migration took to the Donbas region of Ukraine which Tsarist Russia named “New Russia” after rich coal resources were discovered. The man who was chosen…
Ireland And The Wabanaki
The first colonial settlers arrived in New England at about the same time as they arrived in Ireland. These settler-colonialists (planters) expropriated a half-million acres of arable land under the…
The Big Lie And Endless Grievances
In the U.S. the strident arguments put forward that “voter fraud” has taken place in the recent election continues to resonate with a segment of the population. What do the…
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