That’s Why We Shouldn’t Be Killing Anyone
"The world is charged with the grandeur of God." -- Gerard Manley Hopkins Everyone... everyone seemed to be "bleared, smeared with toil." I made an attempt to interact at the…
"The world is charged with the grandeur of God." -- Gerard Manley Hopkins Everyone... everyone seemed to be "bleared, smeared with toil." I made an attempt to interact at the…
"What do you think might happen if one worked around the clock in a given community -- selflessly -- and managed to increase positive test scores in a school by…
“Combating... criminal threats are priorities for all Americans — Republicans and Democrats.” -- Governor Jerry Brown of California, as he sent national guardsmen to the Mexican border... trying to give…
My knowledgeable colleague has written about the deadly blows that Bechtel delivers to the residents of California and elsewhere courtesy of Stanford University previously, but I believe the latest scandal connected…
The US Department of Defense is one of the world’s worst polluters. Its footprint dwarfs that of any corporation: 4,127 installations spread across 19 million acres of American soil. The…
"...the self no longer coincides with [a] single dominant voice: That voice... is not complete but limited, merely one voice among many. That we are all made up of many…
"Let's take Africa as an example. Whereas there's no question that it's admirable, important and the spiritually-correct thing to help immiserated people to self-educate and act responsibly respecting the relationship…
The more ancient the abuse, the more sacred it is." -- Voltaire I'm not a fan of Voltaire's, but I quote him here to underscore that longstanding practices don't justify…
"You can't reduce violence in the U.S. without being proactive about violence abroad. Not just the continuing catastrophes we bring down on others, but the violence that others inflict…
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -- Act I, Scene v, Hamlet I remember very clearly how when Sylvie and…
"When someone stops me on the street and hands me a flyer, it's like they're saying, 'Hey, you throw this away for me.' Well, I feel the same way…
"What if someone offered you a job which paid a million bucks, but you knew it would kill a million people? How about if it meant the end to a…
“Each chapter I read made me more and more angry.” – Dr. Helen Caldicott, international leader of anti-nuclear and environmental movements, making reference to a book recommended below The new Cold…
At the turn of the new millennium, a new phenomenon has emerged: conservatives who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture began to embrace human rights…
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