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“I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man –…
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Koehler has been the recipient of multiple awards for writing and journalism from organizations including the National Newspaper Association, Suburban Newspapers of America, and the Chicago Headline Club.
Colonialism is hardly a thing of the past – it’s alive and vibrant as ever . . . from the Middle East…
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.”…
The Democratic National Convention was happening here in Chicago — my city — and I sat frozen at my desk, staring at…
I stroke the unknown . . . Bear with me as I finish my short walk. I was ambling through my neighborhood…
The corporate media report on elections — especially the biggie coming up — as though they were sporting events. If you win,…
As hard as I try, in the privacy of my own being, not to get caught up in the scathing absurdities of…
After twelve years — including five years of solitary confinement at Belmarsh Prison in London — Julian Assange is free. God bless…
If we can end, let us say… slavery—the legal “ownership” of other human beings—can’t we also end other great social wrongs? Can’t…
Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance…