Archive for War
In our current social climate, it can be difficult to express dismay about atrocities and war crimes perpetrated by one organization or government without coming across as a partisan of an opposing one. For example, expressing dismay about Hamas killing people can easily come across as Islamophobic, or anti-Palestinian, or settler-colonialist; and expressing dismay about […]
On PBS News Hour yesterday, Jonathan Capehart said the following to justify the US sending cluster munitions to Ukraine: This is war. And President Zelenskyy […] is […] forced to fight a Russian president who's been ruthless, bombing civilian targets from almost minute one, with Zelenskyy pleading with the United States and the West, please […]
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
Another news video segment showing soldiers returning home to their kids, this one from Christmas 2007. The narration is kinda...
A month ago, my brother posted about his meeting a Samoan soldier returning home to try to help out after...
Happened across this article a couple weeks ago: "The Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World? Tsutomu Yamaguchi, double A-bomb...
cummings on patriotism, pacifism, and strength of character.
I think most Americans are unaware of the existing limitations on freedom of speech. I used to think that freedom...