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Seeing Jesus in the Machinery of Violence

Seeing Jesus in the Machinery of Violence

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23.04.2026 8

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 6

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 20

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

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

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25.03.2026 10

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 20

CounterPunch

George Cassidy Payne

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

11.02.2026 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

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

04.02.2026 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

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

11.01.2026 20

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Zohran Mamdani and the Long Muslim Thread in the American Story

02.01.2026 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

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

27.12.2025 20

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

The Caribbean Strikes and the Moral Collapse of American Power

09.12.2025 20

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

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

03.12.2025 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

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

20.11.2025 30

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

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

05.11.2025 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Loyalty Over Law: Trump’s Ultimatum to the Military

02.10.2025 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

The White House Wages War at Home

26.09.2025 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

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

27.08.2025 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

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

13.08.2025 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

Why We’re Not Allowed to See Gaza

09.08.2025 20

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

The Disappearing Face of Authority

23.07.2025 20

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

The Fire This Time: Capitalism and the Limits of Survival

17.07.2025 20

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

In the Fight Against Trump and Vance for Free Speech and the Truth, Be Like Mary Lupien

14.03.2025 20

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne

We Must Defend the Sacred Promise of Birthright Citizenship

30.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

George Cassidy Payne