War Is A Crime

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A Duck-and-Cover World? Welcome to the Ukraine Moment By Tom Engelhardt

Face it, we’re living in a world that, while anything but exceptional, is increasingly the exception to every rule.  Only the other day, 93-year-old Noam Chomsky had something to say about that. Mind you, he’s seen a bit of our world since, in 1939, he wrote his first article for his elementary school newspaper on the fall of the Spanish city of Barcelona amid a “grim read more

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You could say metaphorically that the poor in America have long lived under pandemic conditions. In the last two-plus years, however, that metaphorical reality became all too literal, as indicated in a recent pandemic report read more

By Just World Educational, April 19, 2022

The worst problem is a phony one. That is to say, numerous parties are using the cause of prosecuting Vladimir Putin for “war crimes” as yet another excuse to avoid ending the war — the need for “justice” for war victims as grounds for creating more war victims. This is from The New Republic:

“Inna Sovsun, a Ukrainian parliamentarian from the pro-European Golos Party, believes that the need for justice trumps negotiations to end the war. ‘My understanding is that if we get a deal, read more

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At some level, it seems so obvious. At the very least, there should be a steep price to pay for invading another country and fighting a war of aggression there. The question that Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch read more

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This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about world citizenship. Our guest, Arthur Kanegis, is President of Future WAVE, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to shifting our culture of violence to a culture of peace. He is the Director/Producer of “The World Is My Country” read more

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Back in September 2008, Senator Joe Biden offered a bit of wisdom while running for vice president on Barack Obama’s ticket. In a speech criticizing the Republican presidential campaign of senatorial colleague John McCain, he claimed to be quoting his own father when he said: “Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.”

Almost 14 years later, how apt his father read more

An old silent pond
A frog jumps into the pond—
Thud! Dried up last year.

After killing a spider,
how noble I feel
in the TV glow!

I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
Twitter deletes me

Useless, useless,
the heavy rain
On Arkansas coast

In the moonlight,
The color and scent of the wisteria
Seems so Norwegian

Plum flower temple:
Voices rise
From fallout shelters

Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
Has comments beneath

The wren
Earns his living
Unlike bad Russians

Over-ripe sushi
The read more