With the recent tragic deaths of three U.S. military personnel in Jordan, due to an attack by an alleged Iranian supported militia, U.S. politicians are pounding their chest while calling for an attack on Iran. By the time you read
Anti-war essays on this Page are often met with the patronizing response that violence is human nature: to think otherwise, while nice, is both naive and dangerous. Yet examples abound which indicate otherwise. Jesus, MLK. Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, are
The war in Ukraine has fallen from corporate press headlines. When the Gazan slaughter ends, and if the conflict does not spread beyond its current breadth, the war in Ukraine will likely again occupy center stage within the journalistic realm.
(edited: 12/21/23) It is difficult to say who is the more pro-war political party in the U.S. today. For years it seemed it was the Republican Party while the Democrats only reluctantly went along. Gradually that changed, probably in reaction
Continue reading…DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, & WAR: “The Times They Are A Changn’ “
As a young teenager in the late 60’s–witness to the Vietnam war protests, draft evasion, and so- forth, the unfavorable view established of the military during that time has stuck with me to this day. It is not the soldier
So here we go, to where most of us prefer not to go. Hamas’s violent attack on Israel, itself the perpetrator of daily violence against the integrity of the Palestinian people, leads us to the edge of spreading global conflict.
The disturbing thing about the current anti-war effort, to the extent it exists, is most of it seems motivated by the cost to the Federal budget. It is shocking that the outcry to the war in Ukraine is not due
(Originally published during September of 2023) The world is on the verge of a choice. It is deciding upon a continuation of the neo-liberal bourgeois democratic framework, running wild with free markets, libertarian moral values, increasing poverty, inequality, and environmental
(Originally published on June 30, 2023) The Western world is fond to claim it wears the mantle of enlightened democracy while it seeks to spread, or impose, its gospel of free markets and voting rights, on other nations. Democracy, as
An anti-war theme currently dominates this website. This theme exists side-by-side with the Sites original purpose as a photographic portrayal of decades of urban industrial decline. War, however, specifically the potential for nuclear war, is the most pressing issue which
Continue reading…peaceframes: abandonment, war, and connected things