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![]() Robert C. KoehlerCommon Dreams |
War is humanity’s cancer. Its seeming inevitability is ensconced in the global military budget. Can we ever stop waging it?
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...
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...
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...
How do we connect with one another, especially those we fear?
How do we transcend our collective awareness beyond the artificial borders we’ve created?
Trump has offered his base a spiritual sanctuary, a home allegedly secure from perceived (and invented) enemies. Instead of creating a different...
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,...
Peace may still be confined to the social margins, but peace proponents, especially those who have transformed their own victimhood into agency,...
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...
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...
Much as “Who won?” seems to be the media focal point, my question is: Did anybody win? Did the whole country lose?
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...
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...
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!
40,000 (or more) Palestinians have been killed so far; this is one of them.
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...
Militarism is more than the flow of blood. It’s also the flow of money.
From guns to militarism, the national religion is the religion of us vs. them.
I invite you to join me as I reach for a larger context in which to put this flickering moment.