I had people tell me I was a Musteite when I had at best the vaguest notion of who A.J. Muste had been. I could tell it was a compliment, and from the context I took it to mean that I was someone who wanted to end war

The U.S. peace movement is currently drenched in nationalism, uses “we” to mean the U.S. military, and thinks of “global citizen” as a bit of silly childishness. That needs to change. And fast

We’ve been so strategic over the past decade that everybody in the United States knows the war on Iraq cost U.S. lives and money, but most have only the vaguest idea of how it destroyed Iraq

Finally, somebody commenting on the state of Iraq thinks George W. Bush got something right

Turning left in order to go where needed makes a nice metaphor for what our whole culture must do if it is to cease destroying the earth’s climate

When 9-11 victims were used as a justification to kill hundreds of times the number of people killed on 9-11, some of the victims’ relatives pushed back. Now James Foley is pushing back from the grave

Start by recognizing where ISIS came from

In the 1920s and 1930s, anybody who was anybody tried to figure out how to rid the world of war. Collectively, I’d say they got three-quarters of the way to an answer

A petition titled “Call For Independent Inquiry of the Airplane Crash in Ukraine and its Catastrophic Aftermath”

Peace and justice organizations in St. Louis, Mo. and across the country are calling for collective action this Saturday, August 16, 2014