By Michael Drohan Daniel Ellsberg, the author of The Doomsday Machine:Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, is best known for his release of the Pentagon Papers in 1972, which revealed many of […]
BOOK REVIEW: Speak Peace in a World of Conflict by Marshall B. Rosenberg
By Kathleen Gerace My first ventures into peacemaking were the demonstrations against the wars in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Marching along with thousands of others was exhilarating. I felt empowered. But I […]
How the Innocent Haunt the U.S. Justice System
By Neil Cosgrove Americans are fond of saying that those accused of a crime are “innocent until proven guilty,” and reassure themselves that trials before “a jury of one’s peers” make conviction […]
Class Cluelessness in America
By Jim McCarville Joan Williams book, White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, has a lot to teach about the consequences of a “professional privilege” that disadvantages what she calls the […]
Sacred Texts with Violence as Sub-text and Struggle for Nonviolence
By Michael Drohan (Photo caption: Dr. Carol Zinn. Photo credit: The Catholic Leader) Review of Book Is Religion Killing Us?: Violence in the Bible and the Quran by Jack Nelson Pallmeyer, 2003. […]
Hoover vs. Baldwin: The FBI File
June 22, 2017 – By Neil Cosgrove During the 1950s and ‘60s FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was something of a folk hero for millions of Americans, a crime-fighting protector of the […]
On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
June 6, 2017 – By Bette McDevitt Timothy Snyder, who wrote this primer of 130 pages, a guide for these times, is a history scholar. His areas of expertise are Nazi Germany […]
The Tail Wagging the Dog
May 3, 2017 By Michael Drohan Review of Book: Makers and Takers:The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana Foroohar, Crown Business, NY, 2016. Economic inequality is a […]
Attica: A Constant Reminder of a Shameful History
May 9, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove On September 9, 1971 hundreds of inmates at the Attica prison in upstate New York began an unplanned, initially chaotic, take-over of a portion of the […]
IF I WERE STRAIGHT, A Poem by Tallon Kennedy
If I were straight I wouldn’t have the “oh, he’s gay?—that’s so fine!—I love gay people!” comments when I go to people’s apartments, I wouldn’t have to “come out” at some point […]
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