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Robert C. Koehler

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In Trump’s America, Free Speech Really Isn’t Free

In Trump’s America, Free Speech Really Isn’t Free
23.03.2025 30

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Can the Voices of A-Bomb Victims Drown out the Military-Industrial Complex?

16.03.2025 4

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It’s Time to Transcend War, the Meteor of Our Own Making

02.03.2025 10

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What We Can Learn From Leonard Peltier: ‘I Rise Only When I Help You Rise’

20.02.2025 10

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Welcome to Gtitmo! The Freest Place on Earth! (From Human Rights Law)

14.02.2025 6

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Could the US Military’s Recruitment Problem Be a Good Thing?

09.02.2025 9

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How Years of GOP Voter Suppression Helped Trump Win in 2024

01.02.2025 20

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By Dehumanizing Others, Trump Makes Sure We Remain Our Own Worst Enemies

24.01.2025 4

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Will Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Bring Us Closer to Mutually Assured Destruction?

18.01.2025 10

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'I Left You for God, Daddy': Frozen Infants in Gaza and What Terrorism Really Means

10.01.2025 4

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New Year, Same Old Wars

War is humanity’s cancer. Its seeming inevitability is ensconced in the global military budget. Can we ever stop waging it?

03.01.2025 3

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Climbing the Mountain of My Emerging Life

Life isn’t preset. It’s an endless flow of God-knows-what, and it’s up to me—it’s up to all of us—to assign meaning, as best we can, to...

29.12.2024 4

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The ‘Kids for Cash’ Scandal Is About Much More Than Biden's Ignominious Pardon

It’s about the system itself: structured on the value and, indeed, the necessity, of punishment, of “war” on all that is evil, from a kid...

21.12.2024 6

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‘Musicians Without Borders’ Is Playing Human Rights Into Reality

This is the deeper meaning of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: our right to have access to our own creative spirit. To put it another...

15.12.2024 30

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Walls of Fear Create a World of War

How do we connect with one another, especially those we fear?

08.12.2024 5

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Can We Disarm Our Binary Politics and Look for Shared Solutions?

How do we transcend our collective awareness beyond the artificial borders we’ve created?

24.11.2024 4

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We Must Create a Political Home for Americans Who Love the Whole Planet

Trump has offered his base a spiritual sanctuary, a home allegedly secure from perceived (and invented) enemies. Instead of creating a different...

17.11.2024 3

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We the People Must Stand Up to the Trump Agenda and Reclaim the Democratic Party

The Dems managed to lose to a dancing goofball and outright racist. They lost to the guy whose own former aides have called a loser, a liar, and,...

08.11.2024 2

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Can Nuclear Survivors Guide Us all to Peace?

Peace may still be confined to the social margins, but peace proponents, especially those who have transformed their own victimhood into agency,...

21.10.2024 30

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Colonialism Does Not Hide Its Hostility Toward a Better World

It’s a world in which only some lives matter, which winds up meaning that no lives matter. It’s the definition of hell and it’s the militarized...

12.10.2024 5

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Assassination Attempt No. 2 in a Land That Worships the God of Violence

Hold a gun in your hand and suddenly you have the agency of the commander-in-chief. What could happen next is not hard to imagine. Indeed, as we...

19.09.2024 2

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The Trump-Harris Debate: Racist Lies Vs. Military Clichés

Much as “Who won?” seems to be the media focal point, my question is: Did anybody win? Did the whole country lose?

12.09.2024 20

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What Does It Really Mean to Say Israel Has the Right to Defend Itself?

If Israel wants to be safe and secure, step one—Kamala, I’m certain you know this!—is to value Palestinians as fully human, talk to them, and...

07.09.2024 10

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Love and the Blue Pearl in the Time of Harris and Trump

We cannot continue to evolve if we don’t know who we are, and that includes knowing who we are politically. We are not the clichés of state. We are...

01.09.2024 3

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The DNC Hides the Reality of Genocide Behind a Curtain of Faith and Patriotism

The message I hear is this: Democrats are as patriotic as Republicans! Democrats are as religious as Republicans! We can put on a good show too!

23.08.2024 20

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A Death in Gaza and a Spiritual Explosion

40,000 (or more) Palestinians have been killed so far; this is one of them.

18.08.2024 5

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On War and Peace, Can Harris and Walz Promise More Than Lesser-Evilism?

As the Democratic ticket prepares to face off against Trump and Vance, the question that assaults me the most deeply is not so much whether they...

08.08.2024 10

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Project 2025, Poison Gas, and Endless Wars for Profit

Militarism is more than the flow of blood. It’s also the flow of money.

03.08.2024 4

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In the US, Violence Has Always Been the Answer

From guns to militarism, the national religion is the religion of us vs. them.

21.07.2024 7

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The Pesky Noose of Cynicism

I invite you to join me as I reach for a larger context in which to put this flickering moment.

12.07.2024 2

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