Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam
Martin Luther King "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York The sermon which I am preaching this morning in a sense is not the usual kind of sermon, but it is a sermon and an important subject, nevertheless, because...
An Inauguration Day Surprise?
Is the Obama administration out to provoke a military conflict with Russia in the days before Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office? In July of 2014, the US announced the start of “Operation Atlantic Resolve” in response to the vote by Crimea – which took place...
Mainstream Media’s Russian Bogeymen
In the middle of a major domestic crisis over the U.S. charge that Russia had interfered with the US election, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) triggered a brief national media hysteria by creating and spreading a bogus story of Russian hacking into US power...
ISIS Attacks Checkpoints in Diyala Province; 184 Killed in Iraq
ISIS Burns Family to Death, Including Infant; 57 Killed in Iraq
The Two-State Solution Still the Only Game in Town
The Arab taxi driver who brought me to Ramallah had no trouble with the Israeli border posts. He just evaded them. Saves a lot of trouble. I was invited by Mahmood Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority (as well as of the PLO and the Fatah...
Can Trump Tame the Pentagon?
Will Donald Trump keep his campaign promise to end America’s wasteful wars overseas? Since he’s stated he knows more than America’s generals, will he rein them in? Will he bring major reforms to the military-industrial complex, or will he be nothing but talk and...
The Foolish Optimism of Hoping for Chelsea Manning’s Freedom
This column will soon be out of date. There are only a few days of Barack Obama's presidential pardon powers left. He will either offer clemency to whistleblower Chelsea Manning, thereby ending her sentence three decades sooner than officially mandated, or he will...


