Review of “The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory,” edited by Mark Pavlick and Caroline Luft

This apocalyptic hell is real and now; the soothing tranquility on the TV news is imaginary

We tend to forget that right up through the presidency of George W. Bush wars were thought of as temporary things that had endings

We all need to be part of the urgent all-hands-on-deck-immediately efforts to prevent both worsening of environmental collapse and nuclear and all war.

Life sentences are costly in every sense, and counterproductive. They skew the whole prison system toward inhumane sentences

A look at The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment

If you won’t address the training of murderers, and you won’t ban guns, and you won’t stop destroying the earth’s climate, what’s left is madness

The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media

Most of U.S. political discourse seems to me perverted by the stubborn universal refusal to incorporate basic acknowledged facts into general understanding

What limits are to be placed on the barbarism?