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War, Herbicides and Moral Disengagement By Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders, 11 Aug 21 And the least secret agent of all . . . Agent Orange! On August 10, 1961, the United States, several years before it actually sent troops, started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides. The purpose: to deprive our declared… ....
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY-Ever since its founding, the United States has been attempting to build a society around those wounds, on the belief that hyped-up language “all men are created equal,” and so forth can paper over deep wrongs. If you put the ideal in writing, you can ignore its absence in real life. The quote above is from Deborah Scott, writing for a publication of St. Joseph’s Parish in Wilmington, Del. She goes on to note that, except for Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa, the United States reigns supreme when it comes to legislation and traditions that have undergirded systemic and racially divisive policies and practices designed to subjugate a particular group of people. It bears repeating that this has been the case for over 400 years. ....
Written by Tom Walker on March 14, 2021 This Wednesday, March 17 at 9am, we’ll visit with Bob Koehler. Bob contributes to his own website PeaceVoice. PeaceVoice is “dedicated to changing U.S. national conversation about the possibilities of peace and justice and the inadvisability of war and injustice. We believe that nonviolent conflict transformation from destructive to constructive peace and justice by peaceable means can help shape public discourse and thus, ultimately, public policy.” Our second guest will be Pam Horowitz. Pam is the widow of the great civil rights leader Julian Bond. We’ll talk about his book “There was no better teacher of the civil rights movement than Julian Bond. There is no better book for learning the civil rights movement than ....