david (Une version française suit en dessous) The is an old expression that “the chickens have come home to roost.” The wars that the American Empire waged abroad have come to the continental USA. For more than a century the US has waged war, overtly or covertly throughout Latin America. And in recent decades throughout the … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) The Biennale of Luanda, as described in this month’s CPNN bulletin, is a process unique in the world. Nowhere else on earth can you imagine a process that involves all of the countries of a continent in collaboration with the United Nations working together with a coordinating state to … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) (for a version with the illustrations, click here.) A little over a year ago, I wrote in this blog that we are at a turning point in human history, that the American Empire is crashing and that there is a serious risk of a new American Civil War. The … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) Here is the text that I provided to first national forum of the AFCDRP (Association of Mayors for Peace, France) that took place October 13 in Montpelier. First of all, I would like to thank Loréna Schlicht who invited me here and who has done a tremendous work to … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) To some extent one must applaud the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists that have dared to defy government pressure. It is correct that the free flow of information is essential for peace, as we have maintained in this blog. In fact, it has become … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) The loss of the war of the war launched by the Americans in Afghanistan is the latest in a long list beginning with the loss of Germany and Japan in World War II and extending through the failure of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam. It is no … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) Two years ago in this blog, I wrote the following: “There has been so much advance in both democracy and antiwar consciousness over the past few centuries that the state has found it increasingly difficult to get popular support for its wars, overt and covert, and its threats of … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) In last month’s blog, we presented a utopian vision for Jerusalam as a turning point in the transition to a culture of peace. It was taken from my novella, “I have seen the promised land.” Looking further into the novella, we find a second turning point in the transition, … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) We have over five years remaining before the events I imagined as follows in my novella, “I have seen the promised land.” More than ever, I think that this is an essential turning point in the road we need to follow to achieve the transition from the culture of … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) The Israeli government has bombed the headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera in Gaza, trying to limit messages from the Palestinian people to describe their suffering. But the messenger refuses to be killed. Here are some of the messages I have received from people in Palestine. * * … Read more