Articles by: Robert Koehler

Ukraine Needs Diplomacy, Not Depleted Uranium

Ukraine Needs Diplomacy, Not Depleted Uranium

DU stays in the environment, and has been linked to huge rises in cancer and birth defects in the conflict zones. Freedom’s just another word for… blowing up your children? Giving them cancer? Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest shred of news that has left me stunned and terror-stricken is this, as[Read More…]

by 07/09/2023 Comments are Disabled World
Facing Climate Change As One World

Facing Climate Change As One World

“. . . we need to do everything we can to keep (global) warming as low as possible.” When it comes to climate change, one two-letter word has me totally perplexed: “we.” There’s an implication of global unity — a transcendent “we,” marching as to war (so to speak) — facing humanity’s greatest crisis, undoing the exploitative, Earth-destroying aspects of our social[Read More…]

by 21/07/2023 Comments are Disabled Climate Change
Before the Bombs Drop, the Platitudes Fall

Before the Bombs Drop, the Platitudes Fall

Planet Earth is in desperate need of an honest discussion about the elimination of nuclear weapons and, God help us, ultimately transcending war. What is democracy but platitudes and dog whistles? The national direction is quietly predetermined — it’s not up for debate. The president’s role is to sell it to the public; you might say he’s the public-relations director[Read More…]

by 06/01/2023 Comments are Disabled World
The Many Ways War Is Poisoning Us

The Many Ways War Is Poisoning Us

When we wage war, we dehumanize – then kill – a specific segment of humanity. In the process, we “fray” our own humanity. War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret U.S. “strike cell” recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit with a reputation for ignoring the rules of engagement and killing[Read More…]

by 19/12/2021 Comments are Disabled World
A World Without Money

A World Without Money

And climate change begins . . . “Three or four thousand years ago the gods began a migration from the lakes, forests, rivers, and mountains into the sky, becoming the imperial overlords of nature rather than its essence.” So writes Charles Eisenstein in Sacred Economics, defining a transition in human existence that has finally begun to haunt us — haunting some of us[Read More…]

by 06/11/2021 1 comment Counter Solutions
Re-Inhabiting Planet Earth

Re-Inhabiting Planet Earth

“I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the Earth, even though I knew that this was not possible.” These words of Manhattan Project physicist Emilio Segre, quoted by Richard Rhodes in his book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, refer to the Trinity blast on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo,[Read More…]

by 08/03/2019 Comments are Disabled Counter Solutions
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