Sunday, March 29, 2015
Friday, March 27, 2015
Pax Americana?
Soldiers, soldiers everywhere, and war rages.
N.B.: The date of this map. Today, there are even fewer areas in white.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Saturday, March 14, 2015
ISIS and Christian (Double) Standards
It is remarkable how Christians--both the devout and merely nominal--appear determined to see ISIS as an expression of "pure Islam" while Hitler's Christianity (to name but one example among many that could be drawn from the history of Christian peoples) is regarded as a self-evident aberration.
Cologne Cathedral, 1937.
The photo below--worth a thousand words--is of the Rev. Jim Jones's chair, stationed beneath a plaque on which appears a famous line about history authored by the Spanish American philosopher and poet George Santayana. The dead bodies of members of Jones's congregation are visible in the foreground.
Sometimes it seems that, if it weren't for double standards, many among us would have no standards at all.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Monday, March 9, 2015
We Like To Tell Ourselves That The Iranians Hate Freedom...
But the truth is stranger than that. The truth is: we hate peace. With a warfare economy like ours, peace is just bad for business.
In Desperate Bid to Sabotage Nuclear Talks, GOP Directly Threatens Iranian Leaders
In Desperate Bid to Sabotage Nuclear Talks, GOP Directly Threatens Iranian Leaders
