Change Chuck’s Mind! Tell him why we need to support a nuclear deal with Iran.
On Wednesday, August 12th about 20 people from several different local peace and justice groups stood in a silent vigil at the I Love NY Food Festival in Empire State Plaza during the time when NY...
View ArticleThis is what Democracy looks like. Albany rally – and sit-in at the Federal...
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 about 70 people gathered outside the Leo O’Brien Federal Building in Albany NY as part of a nationwide series of vigils and rallies that happened at different times of...
View ArticleYemen: Time for an Arms Embargo
There is finally some good news on Yemen: Members of both houses of Congress are calling on President Obama to increase efforts for a negotiated settlement to the fighting. They are concerned about US...
View ArticleWhat I Hope Obama Said
When President Obama visited Saudi Arabia this week, there was only minimal public mention of the war in Yemen, where sadly the US has been fueling, literally, the Saudi-led military campaign. But my...
View ArticleOlympics: Pathway to De-escalating Korean Crisis?
Three cheers for the peace-making potential of the Olympics! After a nerve-wracking fall of nuclear threats from both Washington and Pyongyang, North Korea’s president Kim Jung-un took advantage of the...
View ArticleUS and Saudi Arabia: Hope for Yemenis?
It’s upsetting that it takes the Saudi murder of journalist Khashoggi to motivate opinion leaders to begin a push for the US to end its equally death-creating involvement in the Yemen war. This war...
View ArticleAnother Trump-Kim Summit?
Another US-North Korea summit seems in the works. President Trump reportedly sent a personal letter to North Korean President Kim Jong-un last weekend, and the lead North Korean negotiator, Kim...
View ArticleDo You Ever Stop Eating?
Do you ever stop eating…..just because you had three meals yesterday? Doubt it. And thus with my usual reluctance to write about what is among the most current in the news, I will bring up the United...
View ArticlePositive Holiday News! Combating Global Violence Intelligently
Here’s something I am celebrating this holiday: an unusual and to me exciting initiative coming from our too-often deadlocked US Congress! Legislation, with bi-partisan sponsors in both houses, which...
View ArticleUse Our Tax Dollars??
If you could choose where your tax dollars go, what would you choose? Affordable health care? Good schools? Affordable college? Job retraining? Affordable day care? Taming climate change by greening...
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