The Choice: Negotiate or Fight
I’ve been thinking about how the rest of the world must view in some amazement plans by Republicans and their allies to spend $20 million in the next 2 months in an effort to torpedo the negotiations...
View ArticleCrisis?
Yes, almost all of you have seen or heard some type of report about the refugees now clamoring to get into countries such as Germany from many places in Asia and Africa. Some even have the hope that...
View ArticleTrue Stories of Children in War: September 17 and Paper Hearts
Wherever they live, children are all too often the innocent victims of war. Millions of children perished during World War II, on all sides of the conflict, from Jewish and Roma children killed in the...
View Article“End Endless War” at home and abroad. #Enough! Photos by Mabel Leon.
On Monday, September 21, 2015, Grannies for Peace and some of our allies in the Capital District peace and justice community held a vigil on Central Avenue and Wolf Road, in Colonie NY. We chose this...
View ArticleA Refugee Solution: Humanitarian Visas Plus Planes
I’m just back from 5 weeks in Europe where the issue of the day is how to respond to the human crisis unfolding in the Middle East – the displacement of literally millions from war zones where bombing...
View ArticleAlternatives to endless war when dealing with terrorism. Is there a better...
This is a very challenging article to write because there is so much to say! I’m going to limit it to the current context involving the attacks by ISIS in Paris, Beirut, Baghdad and on the Russian...
View ArticleA Journey into the Past with Dayshaun’s Gift
Zetta Elliott’s City Kids series, which debuted in 2014 with The Phoenix on Barkley Street, features African-American characters who experience magic in their daily lives. In the first book of the...
View ArticleWords as Weapons
Yeah, I know, this is not an original idea. However, there is a certain term commonly in use in modern current affairs that seems to have exceptional power…and not so much for the good. I am talking...
View ArticleFrantic or Frenzied
I seem to have a tough time choosing a topic for this week’s post. There is so much being said just now about the primary campaign…especially with respect to the Republican candidates and so much...
View ArticleWhy Welcome Refugees?
Each night we see TV images of families risking everything to flee for their lives from the carnage-filled war zones of Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan. The danger of their journeys, their...
View ArticleTimely update on AUMF, just in this morning!
Just this morning after writing the second half of Wednesday’s article on never ending war that concerned the need for Congress to debate President Obama’s request for an authorization to fight a war...
View ArticleLet’s get serious: National and world issues for the Presidential Campaign
First let’s get the (trumpeting) elephant out of the room concerning the hate speech and racism, sexism, violent response to protesters, encouragement of birther sentiments by those in his audience,...
View ArticleLiving History
Yes, of course, I have already been alive for significant historical events…..such as the death of FDR, the election of Harry Truman over Thomas Dewey, Vietnam War, the murders of three great American...
View ArticleThe Candidates Descend: Some Questions!
Why did we brave the Monday blizzard to hand out leaflets at the Sanders rally and to bring our new WARS MAKE REFUGEES banner to the Clinton event in Cohoes? And why did we come with banner, signs and...
View ArticleEarth Day & Tax Day: How Related?
Next week we celebrate Earth Day on April 22 and, in the Capital District, at the exciting Earth Day Expo in Washington Park on Sunday, April 17. This year’s weather havoc has driven home that the...
View ArticleFlower Power! Photos of Grannies for Peace at the Albany Tulip Fest on...
Here are some photos about the way Grannies for Peace and our allies delivered our messages at the Albany Tulip Fest in Washington Park on Saturday afternoon. If you want to read more about why we...
View ArticleCrossroads of a Painful Past
Living in New York City, I’ve become familiar with some of the out-of-the-way museums. Among them is the Weeksville Heritage Center in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. There, wood frame houses...
View ArticleWhen Evil Wins: Playing for the Devil’s Fire
When I first started writing fiction for teens in the 1980s, I came maddeningly close to selling a manuscript to a major publisher. But, alas, the editor sent it back after multiple revisions with...
View ArticleOh, Great Land, When Will We be Worthy of It?
Yes, it is a strange year. But some things are ever the same. Americans as a whole still do not recognize the value and facts regarding much of the world outside our borders. I am alternately terribly...
View ArticleMosul: Disaster in the Making
The escalating military campaign to push the Islamic State out of Mosul, with major US involvement, threatens a humanitarian disaster, the destruction of a city of over 1 million people, and escalation...
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