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The Threshold We Are Being Asked to Accept

21.10.2026 20

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

Trump Crosses New Thresholds of American Shame

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14.10.2026 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Peace Requires Leaders Who Understand the Limits of Power

Donald Trump has built one of the most remarkable political careers in modern American history. For decades, he has cultivated an image of personal...

11.08.2026 10

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

A Cry for Moral Courage in a Wounded World

Every major spiritual and moral tradition carries a similar invitation: Treat others as you wish to be treated. Love your neighbor. Protect the...

04.08.2026 20

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

The World Cup Reminded Us What America Can Be

The most powerful moments of the World Cup did not happen only inside stadiums. They happened in restaurants, city streets, neighborhood bars,...

23.07.2026 20

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

What History Teaches About Justice After War

How do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to...

02.07.2026 10

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

Introducing Trauma-Informed Diplomacy

We are trained to see war as a failure of diplomacy. It is often a failure of perception long before diplomacy begins. We usually arrive at violence...

12.05.2026 30

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

Seeing Jesus in the Machinery of Violence

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23.04.2026 30

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

A War Against Children Cannot be a Christian War

There are moments when political language begins to sound like something older than politics. A prayer inside the Pentagon recently asked God to bless...

09.04.2026 20

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

César Chávez and the Price of Hero Worship

For more than a decade, troubling claims about César Chávez’s sexual abuse were already documented. Miriam Pawel’s 2014 biography, The Crusades...

26.03.2026 50

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

No Life Is a Line Item: Gas Prices, Bombs, and Children in Iran

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25.03.2026 50

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Suicide Prevention as Social Change: From Crisis to Global Impact

A six-circle framework for saving lives, strengthening communities, and shaping a healthier world How Suicide Prevention Can Become a Practice of...

26.02.2026 40

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

Provoke and Deny: The Obama Cartoon and Decades of Racialized Governance

11.02.2026 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Arresting the Witness: Don Lemon, the DOJ, and the Chilling of Press Freedom

04.02.2026 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Trump Is Just the Latest Strongman to Think He Can Control Venezuela

11.01.2026 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Zohran Mamdani and the Long Muslim Thread in the American Story

02.01.2026 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

What's at Stake When the President Uses the R-Word

27.12.2025 50

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

The Caribbean Strikes and the Moral Collapse of American Power

09.12.2025 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

When Obedience Becomes Complicity: From Mỹ Lai to Today’s Military Conscience

03.12.2025 30

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Charlotte’s Web, Redeployed: A Children’s Tale in the Hands of Power

20.11.2025 50

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

How Cheney's Destructive War on Terror Became Trump's Authoritarian War on Truth

05.11.2025 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Loyalty Over Law: Trump’s Ultimatum to the Military

02.10.2025 30

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

The White House Wages War at Home

26.09.2025 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Reclaiming God from Empire: Nonviolence in an Age of Religious Nationalism

27.08.2025 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Fear Can’t Hold Forever: How the Machinery of Tyranny Destroys Itself

13.08.2025 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Why We’re Not Allowed to See Gaza

09.08.2025 40

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne