What if . . . a collective human voice could be heard, crying out across the borders as the pandemic surges, as the fires rage, as the planet’s life-sustaining climate collapses: “We are one”?

An end to war? It’s certainly necessary, but is it politically possible?

What if the media, in its coverage of violent conflict, refused to “obey orders” and wrote about war in a context far larger than military and political leaders would ever acknowledge, let alone condone?

So a major component of the latest manifestation of racism is that white people are its victims

Joe Biden’s 2022 defense budget proposal, for instance, is $754 billion, up $14 billion from Trump’s last defense budget

Is it asking too much that the media bring values, at least as deep as the U.N. Charter, to its reporting, when it comes to matters of war and peace?

Bombs and missiles are one thing, but the United States and its allies have learned how to soften their effect with public relations

Racism remains embedded in its social infrastructure. Much of the country is “protected” by an occupying army

We not only wage war, we celebrate it. We sing about it. It’s no wonder that so many lost souls trying to reclaim their lives embrace this myth and project their troubles beyond themselves, onto others, then find a gun

Deb Haaland brings a different set of values, and a different understanding of Planet Earth, into the game