Faith and War
A friend of mine, who is Chair of the Economics Department, invited me to speak to the students and faculty at the University of Dallas (where the Veterans for Peace convention was that I spoke at the...
View ArticleNever Again
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: My own country, I cannot be silent. — Martin Luther King, Jr. Yesterday was the day that our nation “celebrates” Veteran’s Day. For most people it...
View ArticleThe Family That Slays Together
There were two reports on CNN this morning that I found especially relevant to the human condition in the USA today. The first item was a very sad story. Many years ago a couple in Florida lost a son...
View ArticleA Blueprint for Impeachment: The Constitution Still in Crisis
This pattern of immunity for presidents must stop. Impeaching George Bush for lying to get us into war will not only protect us from him, but also send an unmistakable message to future presidents:...
View ArticleCome Together, Right Now!
It is absolutely flabbergasting to me that our world will be soon commemorating the 5th year since George Bush announced that the US had commenced “Shock and Awe” against Iraq. Millions of people...
View ArticleNIEs: Waste of Time?
BushCo and the Fox “News” generation have a long history of ignoring National Intelligence Estimates (NIE). I would say that they ignore the NIEs at their own peril, but BushCo has suffered nothing for...
View ArticleIs George Army Strong?
While leafing through a women’s fitness (Body, Mind, and Spirit) magazine, I came across an Army recruitment ad that had the headline “Are you Army Strong?” Above the headline is a picture of young...
View ArticleAnd the Oscar Goes To . . .
. . . Hillary Clinton! For phoniest display of belated emotion in a Presidential campaign! Hillary’s recent emotion at the tanking of her multi-million dollar; mass pandering campaign reminded me of a...
View ArticleStains
Today on the 6th anniversary of the opening of a black stain on the soul of America, Guantanamo Bay prison. I was going to write about the necessity of the base being closed and the prisoners charged,...
View ArticleThe “I” Word
Once, when my children were young, one of them rushed into me and said: “Mama, so-and-so, said the ‘K’ word.” I don’t remember which one of my children was the tattler, or which one was the tattlee,...
View ArticleAccountability Now!
The U.S. House of Representatives under the so-called leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-SF) is failing We the People at an alarming rate. She has not only taken impeachment off of the table for her...
View ArticleMilitary Tribunals and You!
I have just returned from five days in Egypt. To me, visiting foreign countries is so enlightening as an American who grew up as parochial and nationalistic as the next. However, since my son was...
View ArticleOpen-Armed Policy
Last year, on the 5th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo torture camp in Cuba, I had the singular privilege of being able to travel there. Travel to Cuba by Americans is, of course banned,...
View ArticleWomen’s Issues
Once, shortly before the 2004 presidential elections, I was having lunch with a friend from my old life: my life pre-April 4th when Casey was killed in Iraq. She informed me that she was going to vote...
View ArticleThe Cindy Sheehan Doctrine
One early morning, exactly five weeks after Casey was killed, I was awakened by a disturbing dream. Casey’s father, Patrick and I had traveled to Santa Barbara for Mother’s Day that year to visit the...
View ArticleThe Cold, Cold Steel of Handcuffs
With the unbelievable 5th anniversary of “shock and awe” looming before us like a dark cancer that is out of control, the Buffoon in Chief, George W. Bush, once again tormented the nation with another...
View ArticleSanto, Santo, Santo
I was sitting on my couch writing about the horrors of war on this the 40th anniversary of the My Lai massacre and the approaching 5th anniversary of George’s crime against humanity, the abominable...
View ArticlePolitical Expediency
I want to take a moment to note yesterday’s heartbreaking news that, five years after the start of this war, there have been 4,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq. Tens of thousands of our brave men and...
View ArticleCorrupt Systems
[Pelosi], too, is frustrated with the ongoing war in Iraq but believes that impeachment would be divisive and distract Congress from improving the lives of working families. — spokesperson for Nancy...
View ArticleEndless Wars for Endless Profits
Before my son, Casey, was killed in Iraq on April 04, 2004, I was a mother of four, worried about all my children—but especially the one who was going to be deployed to Iraq—sometimes working as many...
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