War

"For us, we took it as our sign, which symbolizes for us the struggle for peace, democracy and freedom. A community … united against the killing.”

One day, in one life, when the attractions of the sensory world have lost their charm, when we begin to see the truth of the Buddha’s words – that desire is cause of all suffering; when television, video games, sex, drugs and alcohol fail to fill the inner emptiness; when we sit in a pub with a friend and ask aloud, what the point of it all is.

And all the men and women merely soldiers.

Rejecting reckless calls to military action: Now that’s a “presidential” act worth bringing back.

Of course, the last time our nation actually declared war was WW2. Who cares so long as it sells?

A pathological president who can pardon convicted criminals or start a nuclear war poses a clear and present danger to the nation and the world.

New reports show an escalation in civilian casualties from U.S. operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia — and a pattern of U.S. denial about the scale of the problem.

I can’t remember who recently said it, but the point has been made that we often call people heroes because it’s easier to sacrifice them when they’re given this honorific and simply move on.

After spending trillions of dollars and killing millions of people, the abysmal record of U.S. war-making since World War II remains a tragic litany of failure and defeat, even on its own terms.

Continuing the war through economic means should be called what it is: a crime against humanity.