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A Humanist’s War Memory: “Spinach Music”Arriving in France on Thanksgiving Day, 1944, my outfit was scheduled to join the 9th Army in Holland for an assault crossing of the Roer River (Operation Grenade). Having arrived just in time for the German Ardennes Offensive—the Battle of [Read More...] |
 | Making Friends in High PlacesThree American peace activists meet their young Afghani counterparts.
Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
Tagged Afghan Peace, Afghan Youth, afghanistan, AYPV, Bamiyan, humanism, humanitarianism, kabul, pacifism, Pashtun, peace initiatives, poverty, violence, war Leave a comment |
 | SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT: War is A Lie“There has probably never been a war that hasn’t been explained as an absolutely necessary, inevitable, and unavoidable last resort.”
Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
Tagged anthropology, books, global peace index, hunter-gatherer, pacifism, peace, violence, war, war is a lie, warfare, warrior Leave a comment |
 | What I Know for Sure: The Future Is Up to UsAt eighty, the 2010 Humanist Heroine (with Annie Laurie Gaylor) says she’s more opinionated than ever |
 | A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate WeaponA Fiery Peace in a Cold War is the biography of a man, Bernard A. Schriever, who has profoundly affected the United States and the rest of the world since the early 1950s (he was the “Father of the Air [Read More...]
Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
Tagged air force, atomic bomb, books, cold war, i.c.b.m., ICBM, mad, military, NORAD, nuclear, soviet, soviet union, soviets, thermonuclear, war Leave a comment |
 | The Letter from DeathFOREWORD by Howard Zinn Lillian Moats gives us, in The Letter from Death, a brilliant and strikingly original work of the imagination, drawing both on biblical scholarship and contemporary military doctrine, infused with wit and irony, grounded in a profound [Read More...]
Published in the January / February 2010 Humanist
Tagged afterlife, bible, biblical, books, death, hell, immortality, pacifism, peace, war, zinn Leave a comment |
Who’s Your Guide?On September 2, 2006, Agustin Aguayo–an army specialist who had gone AWOL the day before while his unit was gearing up for deployment to Iraq–emerged from hiding to engage in an unlikely activity. “I’m about to turn myself over to [Read More...] |
Fighting for Iraq: A Case for LiberationAS WE APPROACH FIVE YEARS since the liberation of Iraq, it still appears too soon to tell if it’s been a success or not. From a humanitarian intervention point of view, the tragedy of death and destruction brought on by [Read More...] |
America the Beautiful’s Germ Warfare RashIn his bellicose Cincinnati, Ohio, speech of October 7, 2002, President George W. Bush warned that Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten America with “horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons.” While Iraq’s possession of these [Read More...] |
Grace and Goodwill: The Ballad of Eric-Uncle and Rev. JeyPhotos by James A. Mitchell and VeAhavta Corp. In his September/October 2006 Humanist article, “Soldier Girl? Not every Tamil Teen Wants to be a Tiger,” James A. Mitchell examined the life of a young girl trained to fight for the [Read More...] |
