U.S. Militarism
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
Author: Michael McCormick
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Here We Go: Gaza, Ukraine, Armenia . . .
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.
Anti-War, But Why?
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
The Rise Authoritarianism
(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
The Tyranny of Capital
(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
peaceframes: abandonment, war, and connected things
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
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The Authority of the Narrative
The problem for nations is that they operate within pre-existing narratives which may or may not have much relation to the truth. The narrative tells a story which is smaller and easier to understand than the truth–which can be quite
Ideology & War
When we go to war, we should be clear, we fight for an ideology: a system of thought which emphasizes the competitive side of life, not as a human shortfall, but as a virtue, something to be worshiped, to be
Please Say it Ain’t So!
Victoria Nuland, current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, is viewed as among the top three candidates being considered to replace the retiring Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. Nuland is aggressive in the international arena. She was the
Ukraine: What’s Next?
Let’s go through the trajectory of the U.S.-NATO-Ukraine v. Russia war. The U.S.-NATO arrangement with Ukraine went from the provision of defensive weapons to Ukraine, to missiles, to heavy tanks, to longer range missiles, to training Ukrainian pilots on F-16s,