(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 22, 2025
The Horrific Situation in Gaza There will be a moral consequence to this horrific war which is not a war but a massacre of men, women and children and the destruction of hospitals and schools of higher learning.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 14, 2025
Tariffs, Territorial Ambitions & Other Trump Threats This article views some of the conflicts that President Trump has gotten himself involved with, including climate change, tariffs, Greenland, Canada, Panama, Gaza. One of the questions underlying the article is whether his motives have some validity and whether his forays into peace might have results that are beneficial for all concerned.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 15, 2025
Traumas Makes for Suffering This article is also a Proem about Gaza. It includes commentary and quotes from prophets and poets. What has taken place can only be explained by upside down thinking, an inversion of reality by a leadership lacking in ethical or moral concerns. Scholasticide is the deliberate destruction of places of learning. These are traumas that are doubly painful for children in Gaza.

SHARE        Sunday, January 19, 2025
Maine Congressman Votes to sanction the ICC A Maine congressman votes to sanction the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC), a decision that does not reflect the views of many people in the State. This vote indicates a lack of understanding of the extremist nature of the present leadership in Israel.

SHARE        Saturday, December 21, 2024
Gaza Afflictions (a proem) The pain and suffering taking place in Gaza is a moral issue of great consequence. There will eventually, need to be a reckoning and an atonement.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 18, 2024
The Two Truths This article is concerned with questions relating to evangelical beliefs contrasted with analogies found in the myth of Plato's Cave. I relate this to questions that students are concerned with in a class dealing with current world conflicts.

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 5, 2024
War, Trauma and Forgetting The article relates primarily to Israel and Gaza war while discussing trauma and war and the resulting tendency to avoid or deny suffering. It includes an extensive quote from the Buddhist Monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, concerning victims who suffer in war as well as the veterans who cause the suffering. This Buddhist interpretation is related to Gazan suffering and those who are the present cause of Gaza's suffering.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 16, 2023
Irish History Resonates in Gaza The article makes some comparisons between Irish history as it relates to England and Palestine history as it relates to Israel. The article uses quotes from Israeli historians and Israel peace groups to make the point that dispossession of indigenous land causes considerable traumas and eventually those traumas have to be resolved.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 8, 2022
What Can Be Said After So Much Grief The article deals with gun violence by contrasting the 19th century "Gospel of Wealth" which viewed individual prosperity as a reflection God's benevolence vs the "Social Gospel" which preached that all of society must benefit from material advancement in order to redress moral wrongs. Government must play a role in regulating inequities, especially concerning gun proliferation and gun violence.

(29 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 23, 2022
"A Cautionary Tale" For The Ukraine War This is an article concerning wars involving Russia. It discusses the fact that the results were contrary to the original intentions. The Crimean War was a great loss of manpower and prestige for Russia. For Europe it helped fragment alliances. Much like Russia and Ukraine, the present debacle is besmirching the reputation of a great country, now suffering from the narrow and very limited decisions of their leader, Putn.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 21, 2022
The Welshman Who Founded Donetsk, Ukraine This article concerns the Donetsk region (and city ) of the Ukraine and the surprising fact that it was founded by a Welshman in 1869 who, at the invitation of Tsar Alexander and his brother, came with 8 ships to set up a steel making plant in a region that was named after him (Yuzovka). His name was John Hughes, and he had been a successful industrialist in England...

SHARE        Saturday, August 14, 2021
Ireland and the Wabanaki This article is meant to show similarities between English settler-colonialism and the vast land confiscations in Ireland while in America this took place by "right of conquest" using the legal fiction of the "Doctrine of Discovery" in order to gain sovereign rights over the land. The Wabanaki want to re-assert sovereignty over traditional territory, so have promoted legislation for this purpose.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 17, 2021
In Honor of St Patrick at Lough Derg This article honors St. Patrick whose legends were attached to Lough Derg, a retreat island in Donegal, Ireland which has existed for 1500 years. It is a place for penitence and decision making re: immigration or life changing events.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 22, 2021
Big Lies and Grievances This article presents a brief overview of "white supremacy" and the adoption of "white" as a way of controlling the working class by using race as a method of divisiveness. This divisive strategy began in the 17th century and reached its most virulent form in the early 20th century.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Reflections on Eugenics & White Supremacy This article deals with the Eugenics Movement and "White supremacy" both of which are intimately linked since eugenics was supported by an intellectual elite in the U.S. Britain and Germany. This like-minded elite had come to believe that Northern Europeans (Nordics aka Aryans) were gifted with higher levels of achievement