$It’s now apparently become fashionable to acknowledge, but minimize, what Nixon did
The joy and inspiration created by the public resistance to that threat were intense
War is the biggest U.S. investment, and contemporary war is almost always a one-sided slaughter of civilians
We are at a crossroads, faced with a climate crisis that threatens to end our world as we know it
Among those who cheer when a cease-fire ends and killing resumes are those who want more Palestinians slaughtered as a form of mass punishment for fictional offenses
We are often encouraged to picture vicious cruelty and irrational evil in certain foreign groups of humans. But usually this perspective is intended to help us avoid seeing cruelty in those who are supposedly like ourselves
Remarks at Veterans For Peace Convention, Asheville, NC, July 27, 2014.
What if a campaign to abolish war were to learn a few tricks from the campaign to abolish breast cancer?
I want to celebrate those who resist and oppose war, not those who engage in it
It’s hard to know whether to be pleased each time the place I live, Charlottesville, Va., is named the happiest city in the United States
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