Just in the last few days Israel has reportedly dropped cluster munitions and white phosphorus on southern Lebanon, bombed Gaza, and fired missiles on Damascus, because Israel is a nation whose existence depends on unceasing military violence.In order for Israel to continue existing as the
Perhaps the most significant of the many weak points in human cognition is our persistent tendency to overlook the absences of things. To notice what's there but not what isn't there.We notice problems, but seldom notice the absence of problems. We notice when things are
The outrage over the Iowa caucus scandal has continued to burn white hot as more and more establishment manipulations against the Bernie Sanders campaign come into view.At the beginning of a CNN town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg last night, immediately following the
Beneath all our evolutionary conditioning, beneath all our cultural mind viruses and power-serving, power-promulgated belief systems, beneath the chaos and confusion of life in an insane society, there is a deep stillness.We all know deep down in our guts that that stillness is there, and
American activist Angela Davis once said, "In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” Our responsibility to truth and justice isn't fulfilled by merely witnessing the perverse tendency in western society toward white supremacy without participating in it,
Humanity was treated to an important lecture on peace at a recent event for the NIR School of the Heart by none other than Ellen Degeneres BFF and world-renowned peace expert George W Bush.“I don’t think the Iranians believe a peaceful Middle East is in
Daniel McAdams, the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, was banned from Twitter last week. Officially, it was because he used the word "retarded" to describe the odious establishment propagandist Sean Hannity after noting the hilarious fact that the Fox
We each have a miniature John Bolton living rent-free inside our heads, ruining our peace and promoting world domination at every opportunity.Hear me out.The most common objection I hear when I advocate non-interventionist foreign policy can essentially be boiled down to something like, "But- but-
Whenever I criticize the foreign policy of the current US administration, I always get some pushback from Trump supporters who insist that this president is doing more good than harm by "fighting the Deep State" and, even more commonly, by "keeping us out of wars".This
When Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard announced her candidacy for the presidency on CNN last month, I had a feeling I'd be writing about her a fair bit. Not because I particularly want her to be president, but because I knew her candidacy would cause the