Uncategorized Attendees came from 18 different nations. 08 Apr 2024 Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018 At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 29 Mar 2024 Easter Song and Reflections on the Resurrection ***NOTE: Please check out the footnotes for additional, more detailed commentary. Also, there are poetry and songs in the final… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 12 Apr 2023 Was America Great When It Burned Native American Babies? (Audio and Transcript) – Truthdig Posted initially on Aug 5, 2016 Interview by Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer “Benjamin Madley((See many of his writings… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 15 Feb 2023 Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du… Editor No Comments
15 Feb 2023 Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 29 May 2021 Opinion: It’s ‘The Code’ of the NHL, and it has no cure for stupid Opinion by Ken Dryden May 27, 2021 photo above: Toronto center John Tavares is taken from the ice on a… Editor No Comments
23 May 2021 I Was a Catholic Zionist: A Biblical Challenge to Tribalism and Idolatry WN: This review is from THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM Review: "I Was a Catholic Zionist"--An Eloquent Exploration of Judaism's… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 29 Apr 2021 Empire Politician: The new president’s paper trail reveals a man who has often betrayed his own bedrock principles. Jeremy Scahill April 28… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 30 Mar 2021 I’ve been a priest for 50 years and still struggle with the problem of evil John J. Strynkowski March 28, 2021 photo above: Photo by Markus Schumacher on Unsplash WN: The reflection highlighted below is… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 10 Feb 2021 On the Relative Vileness of George W. Bush and Donald Trump, Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene February 10, 2021 by Gary Leupp photo above: via The Huffington Post WN: One can imagine with the above photo… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 16 Dec 2020 Jesus Was a Victim of Empire. Acknowledging This Should Transform Christianity. Jesus Was a Victim of Empire. Acknowledging This Should Transform Christianity. By Christine Mungai, Truthout Part of the Series: Religion's… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 31 May 2020 Cornel West Says ‘Neo-Fascist Gangster’ Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as ‘Failed Social Experiment’ WN: Please see in light of the title this outstanding article by Canadian Wade Davis: The Unraveling of America. 1.… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 28 Oct 2019 Donald Trump: An American Tragedy for the U.S. and the Entire World By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research, October 24, 2019 “If this [U.S.] government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 12 Oct 2019 Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 17 Mar 2019 Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism March 15, 2019 by Ben Debney drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair WN:… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 15 Mar 2019 Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Published March 14, 2019 photo above:… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized Michael Cohen, left, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) 27 Feb 2019 TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL D. COHEN COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND REFORM U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 27, 2019 photo above: CNN Politics WN: I've spent a 40-year career working with prisoners and ex-prisoners. Many were clearly cons.… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 28 Dec 2018 What’s Behind U.S. Troop Withdrawals Announced for Syria and Afghanistan? By Sara Flounders Global Research, December 27, 2018 WN: What is indisputable is the U.S. remains singularly guided in the… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 10 Sep 2018 Reinforcing US Status as ‘Bully and Hegemon,’ Bolton to Threaten ICC Over Probes into America’s War Crimes Human rights advocates decried the Trump administration's attack on the International Criminal Court as "another low point" in its effort… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 21 Feb 2018 Billy Graham and the Gospel of Fear February 21, 2018 byCecil Bothwell Photo above by Richard Bromley | CC BY 2.0 [NOTE: For a differing view with… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 08 Feb 2018 Kipling, the ‘White Man’s Burden,’ and U.S. Imperialism by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney (Nov 01, 2003) photo above: The Moro Massacre (March 9, 1906): Phillipines… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 16 Jul 2017 The Demolition of U.S. Global Power Donald Trump’s Road to Debacle in the Greater Middle East Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Trumping the Empire Posted by Alfred McCoy at… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 09 Jul 2017 Tomgram: Engelhardt, Aiding and Abetting the Tweeter-in-Chief The Insult Wars in Washington How They Blind Us to Our Troubles By Tom Engelhardt Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:15pm, July 9,… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 16 May 2017 The Complete Censored ESCWA Report: “Israel Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid” By Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley Global Research, March 19, 2017 The brutal decades-long dispossession of the Palestinian people is a towering injustice… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 26 Oct 2016 PAULIST FATHERS STATEMENT ON MORAL ISSUES IN THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION photo above: St. Mary's of the Lake, Lake George, N.Y. - Paulist Fathers, www.paulist.org Though this is not a ringing… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 15 Sep 2016 Empire’s Religion: Arundhati Roy Confronts the Tyranny of the Free Market Published on Thursday, September 15, 2016 by Common Dreams by Jake Johnson photo above: 'Whether she is writing of Kashmir… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 06 Sep 2016 America and the Plague of ‘Moral Idiocy’ Tuesday, September 06, 2016 by Consortium News When it comes to applying rules of international law and ethics, the U.S.… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 30 Aug 2016 Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism September 26, 2014 by CHARLES R. LARSON WN: There is someone of my acquaintance who rails against the US Black… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 29 Mar 2015 Is War the Real [U.S.] National Pastime? These are excerpts from an interview with Eugene Jarecki, director of the documentary: "Why We Fight". For consideration: "Pax Americana:… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 06 Mar 2015 Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism? WN: This paper highlighted below answers in the negative the question posed in the title. It was written by Pamela… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 18 Jul 2022 Focus On: Mapping Militarism 2020 by David Swanson May 6, 2020 WN: The article highlighted below represents a brilliant and multiplex presentation of the worldwide… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 11 May 2024 Re-issuing: How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God by Brendan O'Connor August 8, 2017 WN: I decided to republish this article of seven years ago. The supreme haughty… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 15 Feb 2023 Extensive Commentary On: What white Christian support for Trump reveals about systemic racism By Robert P. Jones | November 12, 2020 WN: Beyond tragic the pullquote to the right, this means four-fifths of American… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 09 May 2022 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… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 06 Mar 2022 Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking WN: The host was the affable lawyer Gerry Palmer, quite well-known in Abbotsford for his work with numerous non-profit organizations,… Editor No Comments
19 Jul 2021 Front Page Augustine recounts this story of Empire: The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 12 Jul 2021 An American Kingdom By Stephanie McCrummen July 11, 2021 photo above: Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth. (Dylan Hollingsworth for The Washington Post)… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 30 Jun 2021 The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americans The Editors June 30, 2021 photo above: A young woman takes part in a rally in Toronto June 6, 2021,… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 12 May 2021 Why Canada’s special forces ‘shadow army’ is still fighting ISIS By Adnan R. Khan May 11, 2021 photo above: Spec Ops Magazine WN: In short, Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR),… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 07 May 2021 Alfred McCoy, How Washington Lost the Ultimate Drug War May 6, 2021 By Alfred McCoy photo above: Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report | Common Dreams News… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 07 May 2021 Joe Biden’s War Powers: Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill April 28 2021 Recording: Go to website and listen to Joe Biden's War Powers 2021-04-28·36 min. Transcript… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 24 Apr 2021 Tribes Want Medals Awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre Rescinded Mark Walker April 23, 2021 photo above: Kristina Barker for The New York Times WN: This kind of story can… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 26 Mar 2021 Restorative Justice: Peacemaking Not Warmaking; Transformative Justice: Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform by Wayne Northey for The Kenarchy Journal, Volume 2. image above: cccu.org PLEASE NOTE: Below are excerpts of my paper… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 26 Feb 2021 Technology of Death: March 26, 2020 by Ramzy Baroud photo above: Sgt. Paul L. Anstine III, U.S. Marine Corps – Public Domain WN:… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 13 Feb 2021 On Some Bad House Manager Language February 12, 2021 by Paul Street photo above: Backbone Campaign – CC BY 2. WN: The highlighted article is a… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 10 Feb 2021 Reckoning with the Toxicity of Christian Nationalism By Bill Berkowitz February 8, 2021 WN: The article highlighted below is very disturbing for followers of the one Mark… Editor No Comments
01 Nov 2020 Book Review of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jean Bethke Elshtain, New York: Basic Books,… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 28 Oct 2020 The Man Card WN: Please see this new and powerful video--free until November 3! It tells America's story of the past half century… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized BAYONNE, NJ - MAY 3: A wind blown American flag at the Tear Drop 9/11 Memorial flies over the skyline of New York City as the sun sets on May 3, 2020 in Bayonne, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) 16 Aug 2020 The Unraveling of America by Wade Davis August 6, 2020 Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 08 Aug 2020 Life Under the Bomb Means a Life of Resistance Published on Thursday, August 06, 2020 by Common Dreams by Rev. John Dear photo above: "Our message over the years… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 23 Jul 2020 Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act July 22, 2020 Bats With Napalm… Editor No Comments
23 Jul 2020 Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act July 22, 2020 Bats With Napalm… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 11 Jun 2020 An Open Letter To Joe Biden Dear Mr. Biden. If I might be so bold, I wonder about connecting some dots at this incredible kairos moment… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 01 Oct 2019 Beyond Impeachment: Remove This Regime from Below October 1, 2019 by Paul Street photo above: White House – Public Domain WN: This is a powerful broadside against… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 16 Feb 2019 Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Natasha Lennard February 9 2019, 6:00 a.m.… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 15 Sep 2018 Obama’s Imperial Presidency September 14, 2018 by Carl Boggs photo above: The U.S. Army | CC BY 2.0 WN: It is astounding that… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 30 Aug 2018 Millennial Evangelicals Diverge from Their Parents’ Beliefs The separation of families at the border, climate change, and various progressive causes have galvanized young Christians. By Eliza Griswold… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 28 Aug 2018 The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean August 24, 2018 Slavery… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 21 Aug 2018 Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Will China Be the Next Global Hegemon? Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump “America First” Versus China’s Strategy of the Four Continents By… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 13 Aug 2018 How Does This All End? How Do We Come Back Together? August 1, 2018 by Tim Suttle 8 Comments WN: In the article highlighted below, we are told -- again by… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 02 Aug 2018 Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’ Commits the church to working toward its abolition worldwide((There is clearly moral ambiguity on this issue. I greatly appreciate this… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 01 Jul 2018 Trump is now dangerous – that makes his mental health a matter of public interest Bandy Lee This world authority in psychiatry, consulted by US politicians, argues that the president’s mental fitness deserves scrutiny Sun… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 24 Feb 2018 The Last Real Evangelical: Evangelist Billy Graham Feb 23, 2018 photo above: Evangelist Billy Graham speaks in Dallas at the 1974 Southern Baptist Convention. (AP) by Mel… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 10 Nov 2017 Pope Denounces ‘Mentality of Fear’ Caused by Nuclear Regimes, Urges Disarmament Published on Friday, November 10, 2017 by Common Dreams At a seminar at the Vatican, Pope Francis praised the U.N.'s… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 10 Sep 2017 The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion Or Buck Rogers in the 21st Century By Alfred W. McCoy [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized Buy the book 26 Aug 2017 Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother By Alfred W. McCoy [This piece has been adapted and expanded from… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 19 Aug 2017 Why Trump Could Be Gone Before 2020 AUGUST 18, 2017 by PAUL STREET excerpts: Increasingly, though, one really must wonder if the arch-authoritarian racist idiot Donald Trump will… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 07 Jul 2017 Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Two Impulsive Leaders Fan the Global Flames Posted by Dilip Hiro at 6:51am, July 6, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. image above: Winning entry of this year's International Trumpism… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 06 Jul 2017 The Unacknowledged Logic of North Korea’s Missile Tests We may not like it, but nuclear weapons may be all that stands in the way of another US-conducted “regime… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 03 Jul 2017 Worried About Those Global Cyber Attacks? They Were Started by Washington Worried About Those Global Cyber Attacks? They Were Started by Washington The notorious US spy agencies invented this monster, first… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 03 Jun 2017 Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas JUNE 2, 2017 by PAUL STREET WN: The review below of… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 30 May 2017 America’s Iran Hysteria The Irrationality of Iran Vilification By Danny Sjursen Posted by Danny Sjursen at 7:46am, May 30, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. WN: It… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 14 Apr 2017 VOW – Statement on Syria Justin Trudeau has shown his true colours in his complete flip-flop on what The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 09 Apr 2017 The Banality of War WN: Below is the first footnote of an essay for a possible chapter in an upcoming book slated for fall… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 05 Apr 2017 Fifty Years On: MLK’s Concerns Still Plague Us, Including Militarism Tuesday, 04 April 2017 photo above: Racism, extreme materialism and militarism are still inextricably linked, and still prevent our society's… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 28 Feb 2017 Constantine in Canada – Ron Dart – with Vancouver letter re: Franklin Graham February 27, 2017 Constantine in Canada: The Conservative Evangelicals Ron S. Dart WN: Years ago, I wrote an editorial in The… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 19 Feb 2017 Why Do So Many Americans Fear Muslims? Decades of Denial About America’s Role in the World. Jon Schwarz February 18 2017, 6:11 a.m. photo above: During a memorial service in Baghdad, Iraqis gather around a bomb hole… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 11 Nov 2016 The Republic Repeals Itself By Andrew Sullivan WN: The article linked below is one of despair. There is no doubt this is a sentiment… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 05 Nov 2016 My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right – The Huffington Post By Luke O'Brien Illustrations By Mariano Pascual November 3, 2016 I went to a white nationalist ethnostate in Indiana. I… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 13 Oct 2016 An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, October 13, 2016 WN: A friend reminded me, in response to that below, that none of us in the first world is… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 08 Sep 2016 North Korea accused of ‘maniacal recklessness’ after new nuclear test US Geological Survey records 5.3 seismic event at ground level near nuclear test site Friday 9 September 2016 Martin Farrer… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 05 Sep 2016 The Revenge of Roger’s Angels How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media. September 2, 2016 7:30 a.m.By Gabriel… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 23 Aug 2016 US War Crimes or “Normalized Deviance” Tuesday, 23 August 2016 09:22 By Nicolas J.S. Davies, Consortium News | Op-Ed photo above: 1986 launch of the doomed… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 26 Jul 2016 There’s No Business Like the Arms Business photo above: A mural near the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. ( Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 29 Mar 2015 The London Bombs, July 2005 By Wayne Northey July 9, 2005 Dear Editor: Prime Minister Tony Blair hypocritically called the London bombings “barbaric attacks.” On… Editor No Comments
Uncategorized 29 Mar 2015 Mr. Harper, But Emperor Bush Has Nothing on At All!!! By Wayne Northey Stephen Harper is a scary man. He is at best sycophant, at worst dupe, of the confidence… Editor No Comments
26 Jan 2015 The Executed God The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Mark Lewis Taylor, Fortress Press, 2001, 208 pp. excerpts: “Is it a… Editor No Comments
30 Jan 2014 Restorative Justice SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages NOTE: Some of what follows is excerpted from… MasterEditor No Comments