The Second Amendment was written in a society where guns — individually, in small groups, and in regulated militias — were used primarily and routinely to commit genocide and to maintain slavery
The Old Ones Won’t Do It
Nazi rallies in the news in recent years have most prominently been held here in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, and in Ukraine. I…
Remarks at No Foreign Bases Conference, Baltimore, MD, January 13, 2018
3% of U.S. military spending could end starvation on earth
If a corporation or an empire or an athlete or a Hollywood action film were a person, it might be Donald Trump
Peace activism requires prolonged struggle and the opposite of looting and pillaging
Donald Trump is tweeting about a particular spot in Hawaii. He visited it recently on his way to threaten war in Asia.…
I work for peace because we sometimes win and sometimes lose but have a responsibility to try, try, try, and because trying is far more enjoyable and fulfilling than anything else
If everyone showed enough grasp of reality to turn the day after Thanksgiving into a day of mass nonviolent action for survival, rather than a day of extreme materialism, I’d have no objection to Thanksgiving
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