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20 January 2009
The moral dead zone
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Robert Koehler
“Mr. Ban said too many people had died and there had been too much civilian suffering.”

That almost bears repeating, but I won’t because I don’t believe it. Too many? In the moral dead zone of the human heart, perennially...
14 January 2009
In Memoriam: Art Strauss
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Harvey Wasserman, Bob Fitrakis
The Free Press community mourns the recent loss of our good friend, Art Strauss.

Art Strauss was a magnificent human being who made this community--- and the world---a better place.

He was warm, funny, smart,...
07 January 2009
Be the peace
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Robert Koehler
"Surely, they say, there must, there has to be another way of doing this."

OK, let's start here, with this flicker of anguish, this quick stab of despair and disbelief that war is a rational means to an end. These words, from...
01 January 2009
The future of civilization
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Robert Koehler
The tight, absurd parameters of “peace,” as they are drawn by the military model we continue to believe in, make real peace —neither bitter nor temporary — impossible even to imagine. God save us, for instance, from New York Times...
30 December 2008
A hundred eyes for an eye
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Norman Solomon
Israelis and Arabs "feel that only force can assure justice," I. F. Stone noted soon after the Six Day War in 1967. And he wrote: "A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. The Others are always either less than human,...
28 December 2008
Did Bush Sr. kill Kennedy and frame Nixon?
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David Swanson
Russ Baker's new book presents an account of the U.S. government that is both remarkably new and extensively documented. According to this account, George H. W. Bush, the father of the current president, devoted his career to secret...

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