The Future of Afghan Women
Suddenly there’s major concern across the country — from the mainstream media to every last rock-ribbed Republican — for the rights of Afghan women and girls to be able to [...]
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09, 2021
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10, 2020
The Parallel Realities & Universes of Peace & War
Here’s a piece of paradoxical news that puts even the looming U.S. presidential election in perspective: Nuclear weapons are now (or soon will be) . . . illegal. Armageddon is [...]
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09, 2020
Why Nature Needs to Win
“When the U.S. Constitution was ratified, women, indigenous peoples, and slaves were treated as property, without rights.” This isn’t over yet. In the same vein of exploitative ignorance, we’re still [...]
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09, 2020
Foreboding Impact of Climate Change
Climate change: It feels like the approaching End Times. But it’s the secular version thereof, which means that humanity is responsible for both its cause and — if possible — [...]
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09, 2020
The Very Serious Impact of Plastics
“Plastics!” Yeah, it’s everywhere … not just in grocery store aisles and department stores and every other commercial outlet you can think of, not to mention your own cupboards and [...]
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11, 2019
Peace Always in Progress
Veterans For Peace, an organization that speaks truth to war like nobody else, is attempting to reclaim Armistice Day, the Nov. 11 holiday that was flipped on its head 65 years ago [...]
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08, 2019
We are All Indigenous, We are All Interconnected
All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand something [...]
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10, 2018
Science Gets More Dire & Politics Turns the Other Way
Our environment is in trouble. The science gets ever more dire. The politics runs the other way. We’ve claimed hold of the planet, but cluelessly, like the sorcerer’s apprentice. Welcomed [...]
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10, 2018
The Homeless Angel in Chicago
Homeless people affect all of our lives even if we're not always aware of it. One day, I walked into a CVS pharmacy in my neighborhood to buy a birthday [...]