It’s not going to happen here in the United States – peace – not in this coming year, not in my lifetime. I have to face the fact that no matter how many well-meaning cards I receive embossed with “peace,” I still have a President, much lauded, for delivering one of the more forceful war-arguments [...]

truthout.org Howard Zinn: Nobel Prize for promises? Oct. 10, 2009 I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize. But then I [...]

I find myself suddenly moving beyond myself. I suspect/hope this is a relief to some. It seems important (at least to me) to stay personal and as real as possible as to what it is to be human wandering around LA (and environs) at the start of this (still new) millennium. I think that’s part [...]

By Robert Scheer Every once in a while, a statistic just jumps out at you in a way that makes everything else you hear on a subject seem beside the point, if not downright absurd. That was my reaction to the recent statement of the president’s national security adviser, former Marine Gen. James Jones, concerning [...]