September 10, 2010, 4:30 pm 60 comments in the last 30 days.
9/11 Reflections Part 1: The Elephant and the Mosquito.

What happens when a mosquito bites an elephant? The answer to this question lies at the intersection between myth and reality. The Big Lies, Grand Illusions, and Great Myths of our age are stories of the elephant and the mosquito.

June 3, 2023, 6:13 pm 22 comments in the last 30 days.
Disconnecting War from Its Consequences.

Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. Sanity lost in the House, 420-1. It lost in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s lone vote for sanity remains a tiny light of courageous hope flickering in a chaotic world.

December 13, 2022, 3:11 pm 7 comments in the last 30 days.
6 Crucial Business Travel Tips.

Business travel is an essential business aspect. Traveling for business allows you to network with other industry professionals while meeting new people and connecting with prospective customers.

May 4, 2013, 11:13 am 3 comments in the last 30 days.
Sheriff's Department Takes Family's Home and Contents Using a Fake Eviction.

U.S. Navy veteran Ted Visner and his wife, Kathy Smith of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, have been living a nightmare for two and a half years.

October 29, 2012, 11:47 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
1497 and So On: A History of White People in Canada OR... The Caucasian Healing Fund.

In the beginning, John Cabot stumbled across Canada and he wasn't even an Englishman but he called himself one, which tells you something. Unable to hitch a ride with Columbus, the Italian seaman headed west in an English sloop and found himself stuck in a shoal of cod a hundred miles wide.

February 20, 2010, 11:11 am 1 comments in the last 30 days.
List of Ships with Agent Orange Exposure Confirmed.

The VA this week outlined which ships are now considered to have been exposed to Agent Orange during Viet Nam. A number of offshore “blue water” naval vessels conducted operations on the inland “brown water” rivers and delta areas of Vietnam.

December 26, 2012, 8:13 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
O Little Town in Occupied Territory.

What people might not know is that the city of Bethlehem today is not in Israel but in Palestine, and that it is a bustling city with 28,000 people. One third of them are Palestinian Christians. 

When Christians today sing “O little town of Bethlehem” they seldom think of the real city with the real people.

June 5, 2011, 9:27 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Report Reveals Toxic Pollution at Numerous US Bases in Korea.

Analysis of an environmental contamination report obtained by the Hankyoreh of 22 U.S. military bases returned to South Korea showed the discovery of high concentrations of materials. These include phenol, a toxic material that can cause organ damage, and benzene, a carcinogen, at some of the bases.

February 3, 2021, 12:37 am 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Rumination on the Trump Deplorables.

Were we better off January 20 than we were four years ago? The answer is a definite “NO.” I am still trying, however, without much success, to understand why 74+ million Americans voted to re-elect Trump when for four years he has embarrassed himself and this nation with his ignorance, ineptness, and lack of human decency. During the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables.” Who are these deplorables?

January 7, 2019, 7:24 pm 1 comments in the last 30 days.
Salem Women's March 2019 is Coming Up.

Thousands of women from Salem, Eugene and surrounding areas will rally and march in Salem, along with thousands of women in cities across the country and the globe on Saturday, January 19, 2019 as part of the third annual Women's March. “The Women’s March is not just a March, it is a movement and it has shown its power the change political outcomes and the direction our society is going,” said Debbie Miller, President of the organizing Board for this year’s Women’s March in Salem.