Mark Twain’s War Prayer (Videos)

Mark Twain wrote a scathing antiwar poem/story called “The War Prayer,” which he feared to have published during his lifetime. Decades after his death, this work was published. I first ran into “The War Prayer” when a young woman sold me a copy at an antiwar demonstration during the Vietnam war. I was struck by [...]

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Memorial Day Landmark and the Cost of War

According to The National Priorities Project, The United States passed a landmark on May 30, 2010. On that day, the United States will have spent 1 trillion dollars on the Iraq and Afghan wars, and on June 7, 2010, the Afghan war will become the longest war the United States has waged. Moreover, the cost [...]

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Obama’s State Of The Union Address, If I Were Obama’s Speech Writer:

  For those blog readers outside the United States, the State Of The Union Address is a speech the American president customarily gives at the beginning of each year, usually in January but sometimes in February, to a joint session of congress and, via broadcast, to the USA population. It lays out what the president [...]

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The Great Dictator’s Antiwar Speech (Video)

In 1940, shortly before the United States went to war against Hitler’s Germany, the famed and highly-acclaimed comic actor and director Charlie Chaplin made a wonderful movie called “The Great Dictator.” You can get The Great Dictator for home viewing, and it is a worthwhile purchase. This movie plays up the classic doppelganger gag. The [...]

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Martin Luther King Day, January 18, 2010

Martin Luther King died in 1968, a year of incredible upheaval throughout the world. I was a young married man with a beautiful young daughter. We lived in San Diego, California, and I was a private music teacher. It was a completely different world then. People in my town thought it was funny to call [...]

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Afghan Folly, Bring The Troops Home Now!

It appears that this well-documented RawStory.com article gives us another graphic lesson about the folly of imperial adventures with its description of a recent suicide bombing. The article describes how the CIA recruited an Afghani to act as an “informant,” (which is polite-speak for spy). CIA personnel escorted said Afghani would-be informant into a CIA [...]

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Christmas Eve, 2009 and New Years wishes, 2010

  I offer each of you personally this lovely Christmas card, now nearly 140 years after it was first created in the year 1870, as I start to write this essay on Christmas eve, year 2009. Best holiday wishes to all my friends and visitors, you who are my brothers and sisters, who come here [...]

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Michael Moore on Afghanistan

Hello Brothers and Sisters, This is a follow-up on President Obama’s speech in which he tries to explain just why he is sending more troops to Afghanistan. He failed in giving a coherent and bulletproof explanation, although he expressed himself in beautiful language The night before his speech, I wrote a post called Bring The [...]

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Bring The Troops Home Now!

It is Monday night, November 30, 2009, as this is being written, and President Obama has apparently committed to sending tens of thousands more troops to  Afghanistan. This is a terribly flawed decision, and absolutely no good can come of it. Instead of sending more troops, the United States should just bring all the troops [...]

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The Real Reason For The War in Iraq.

This is a rather extensive update of a piece I wrote in December, 2006, nearly 3 years ago, and originally published elsewhere Most American politicians and many pundits now concede they were wrong to support Bush’s invasion of Iraq, stating that the administration lied to them about its justification. Politicians who voted to support the [...]

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