Silent Genocide
By Robert C. Koehler image above: An example of the damage done by depleted uranium shells on armour plating. WN: Below is another form of blowback we keep hearing about, but it is consistently denied by militaries . . . What do you think? An excerpt: It’s time to listen for a moment not to […]
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
talk by Jim Forest An excerpt: In the dawn of time, back in the fifties, my favorite comic strip concerned an assortment of animals living in Florida’s Okefenokee Swamp. The artist, a whimsical man named Walt Kelly – Wikipedia, referred to them as “nature’s schreechers.” … You may wonder why Jim Forest – Wikipedia, who […]
Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste
Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul Sun 3 Oct 2021 image above: The burnt-out remains of cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles at the CIA secret base. Photograph: Emma Graham-Harrison/The Observer WN: Sick beyond description! An excerpt: [su_dropcap]T[/su_dropcap]he cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles that the CIA used to run its shadow war in Afghanistan had been lined up and incinerated beyond […]
Devotional – M2/W2 Staff-Board Retreat, June 12, 1999
WN: In 1998, I became Executive Director of M2/W2, a Restorative Justice/Prison Visitation program. I held that position until retirement in 2014. The first several years were good. Relationships between Board and myself fared well. In my last four years with the agency, with the arrival of a new Board member, whose express purpose I […]
The Mumbai Bombs, July 2006
July 12, 2006 Dear Editor: Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter MacKay predictably was the pot that called the kettle black in (otherwise legitimately) condemning the bombing horror in Mumbai this week. Last July Prime Minister Tony Blair likewise as hypocritically called the London bombings “barbaric attacks.” On September 1, 1939, President Roosevelt similarly wrote […]
The Impact of Christ on Female/Male Relationships
This study still has pertinence today. There are two versions, which titles below explain. The second was presented on the University of British Columbia campus to a secular/Christian audience. An excerpt from the first: Introduction A few years ago, a man phoned me and asked if I had some time for a talk. I replied […]