Sustainability| More...
 

War

SOLDIER TO POET: An Exchange

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Exchange, Conversation, Soldier, Carol Muske-Dukes, Poet, Lt. Colonel Edward Ledford, West Point, Literature, Marines, Afghanistan, War, Hamlet, Aeneid, Poetry, Politics News
Carol Muske-Dukes

We cannot get away from the romanticism of war -- indeed, we romanticize it every day, even as we curse the notion. And this war is epic, to be sure. Think back to the first act in this play.

Read Post

Holy Wars, Just Wars, and No Wars

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.17.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Movement, Holy Wars, Pacifism, Barack Obama, War, World News
Deepak Chopra

There are three principles governing President Obama's foreign policy outlook: holy wars are always unjust, just wars exist, and peace is an ultimate goal.

Read Post

The Reality of PTSD

Craig Barnes | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam, Ptsd, War, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health, Politics News
Craig Barnes

After winning his third Silver Star, my friend Burt disintegrated. War and destruction had taken the innards out of the man. Are these "childish evasions"?

Read Post

Determining a "Just War" in 2009, 1906, and 412 AD

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Obama Peace Prize, History, St. Augustine, Rome, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech, War, Politics News
Lapham's Quarterly

In December of 1906, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he made these remarks to Congress in that same month.

Read Post

Tony Blair: Would Have Invaded Iraq Without WMD

The Guardian | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq WMD, Saddam Hussein, Wmd, Tony Blair, War, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq War, Iraq, Parliament, World News

Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to p...

Read Whole Story

Obama's Just War and Deaf Ears

Sunil Adam | Posted 12.15.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Terrorism, War, Just War, Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Christianity, Hegel, World News
Sunil Adam

The "just war" theory essentially seeks to reconcile Jesus Christ's turn-the-other-cheek principle with the secular need of nations to wage war.

Read Post

Keep Your Eyes on the Peace Prize

Randall Amster | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Nobel Peace Prize, Gandhi, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, Peace, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech, Barack Obama, War, Politics News, World News
Randall Amster

Almost 45 years ago to the day, Martin Luther King gave his Nobel acceptance speech, and flatly contradicted Obama's reasoning and conclusion that war is a necessary practice.

Read Post

Mr. President, War Is Not Peace

Norman Solomon | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kabul, Nobel Address, President Obama, War, Oslo, Stanley McChrystal, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Jody Williams, Politics News
Norman Solomon

From President Obama, we hear that peace is the ultimate goal. But "peace" is a fixture on a strategic horizon that keeps moving as the military keeps marching.

Read Post

ReThink Review: Brothers -- the War Drama Curse Continues

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, Natalie Portman, Movie Review, Jim Sheridan, Afghanistan, Jake Gyllenhaal, War, Rethink Reviews, Iraq, Jonathan Kim, Tobey Maguire, Brothers, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

So far, Hollywood's attempts at making movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been failures, usually critically but always financially.

Read Post

Afghanistan: A Broken Promise to Military Families

Richard Allen Smith | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stop-Loss, Dwell Time, Robert Gates, War, Deployments, Iraq, Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Richard Allen Smith

For the last several years, our Armed Forces have been plagued by a lack of what is known as dwell time -- the amount of time Soldiers have at home with their families between deployments.

Read Post

Time for Strategic Stamina

Will Marshall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Democrats, Michael Moore, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Af-Pak, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, War, Cold War, Democrats, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Will Marshall

President Obama now has a difficult sales job to perform. In essence, his message will be: we need to get in deeper to get out of Afghanistan sooner. He's right.

Read Post

Obama's War: The Next Best Steps in Afghanistan?

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Gen. Stanley McCrystal, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, President Barack Obama, Afghan War, US Aid, War, West Point, State Department, Afganistan, U.S. Military, Gen-Stanley-Mccrystal, Afghan Taliban, Us Troops Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

Both military and civilian leaders need to revisit their management and cooperation efforts, and better define their "jobs" if any progress is to be made.

Read Post

The Hollow Politics of Escalation

Norman Solomon | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Timetables, Escalation, War, Benchmarks, New York Times, Afghanistan, I. F. Stone, David Obey, Jack Reed, Politics News
Norman Solomon

An underlying conceit of the new spin about benchmarks and timetables for Afghanistan is the notion that pivotal events there can be choreographed from Washington.

Read Post

Afghanistan Nightmare: the Only Light in this Dark Tunnel

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Lies, Nightmare, Martin Luther King, A Dream, War, Mccain, Obama, Afghanistan, Poetry, Politics News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

The dream of Obama is now dead. He has turned out to be, as I had begun to fear a few months back, really just like the others that came before him.

Read Post

Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: My Lai, Evelyn Theiss, Citizen Journalism, War Wire, War, Ron Haeberle, Civilian Casualties, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seymour Hersh, Veterans, War Crimes, Soldiers, Army, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Ohio, Ronald Haeberle, Media News, U.S. Army, William Calley, Citizen Journalists, Media News
David Quigg

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

Read Post

Build, Don't Destroy in Afghanistan: An Open Letter to President Obama

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Strike, President Obama, Civil, International, Indigenous, Washington, Pakistan, War, United Nations, Campaign, Muslim Countries, Collateral Damage, Surge, Prayer, America, Muslim, Conflict, Un, Terror, Technology, Security, Development, History, Afghan Government, Democracy, Fear, Terrorist, Ngos, Unmanned Drones, Religious Leaders, Engagement, Death, Foreign Policy, Moral Values, Occupier, Extremists, Moral Issues, Deaths, Women, Escalation, Faith Community, Economic Support, Taliban, Military, Afghanistan, General Assembly, Terrorism, Humanitarian Assistance, D.C., Casualties, Faith-Based, World News
Jim Wallis

Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.

Read Post

Let Peace On Earth Begin With Me And You

Joann Davis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Holidays, God, Courage, Relationships, Peace on Earth, Hatred, Authenticity, Prayer, Diplomacy, Forgiveness, Peace, The Giving Life, War, Living News
Joann Davis

But in our spectator society, where it's easier to watch reality tv than live our own authentic and vibrant life, small, personal acts are sometimes overlooked and minimized.

Read Post

Billie Jean in Baghdad

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, Michael Jackson, This Is It, Michael Jackson Death, Middle East, Iraq Violence, Iraq War, War in Iraq, War, Iraqi, Refugee, Iraq, Syria, Michael Jackson Movie, Teenagers, Entertainment News
Kathryn Schulz

For every five people who have read Lolita in Tehran, roughly a billion have tried, in the privacy of their own rooms, to master the moonwalk.

Read Post

The New Surge: Overcoming Poverty in America

Douglas Forbes | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Child Poverty, Department of Defense, Homelessness, US Poverty, War, Family Promise, The Heritage Foundation, Doug Forbes, Impact News
Douglas Forbes

The population of New York, Florida and Washington D.C. combined represents the number of Americans who must currently choose between food or gas, between a doctor's visit or an electric bill... between life and death.

Read Post

To Give Is To Gain: Bobby Sager's Philosophy Of Philanthropy

Michael Macher | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Darfur, Sting, Philanthropy, Afganistan, Charity, Developing Countries, The Power of the Invisible Sun, Children, The Giving Life, War, Donna Karan, Bobby Sager, Travel, Development, Rwanfa, Triumph, Living News
Michael Macher

Bobby Sager is on a mission to change our understanding of what it means to give. Rather than teach an ethics of guilt, he shows how we might use philanthropy as a strategy for leading a fuller life.

Read Post

When Militarism 'Invades' Medicine...Doctatorship Happens

Dana Ullman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Homeopathic, Military, Physicians, Military Industrial Complex, Weapons of Mass Destruction, War, Side Effects, Natural Medicine, Militarism, Collateral Damage, Medicine, Homeopathy, Health, Living News
Dana Ullman

Our medical thinking has become totally militaristic. It is not just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to attack illness, combat disease, kill infective agents, and create a war on cancer.

Read Post

War Dead and Differential Grief

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq, Grief, War, War Wire, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

This year we have lost a total of 429 soldiers, an average of 1.2 per day, every day of the year, or the equivalent of a Ford Hood every 11 days. We should all ponder that.

Read Post

The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News
David A. Love

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

Read Post

Fighting a War With Someone Else's Children

Dan Agin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Congress, Obama, Afghanistan, War, Politics News
Dan Agin

Fighting any war without the public sacrifice of a universal draft is an unjust misery for military personnel and their families. If war is necessary, if you want war, risk yourself or your children and grandchildren in combat.

Read Post

Navy SEAL Photos In New Book, "SEAL: The Unspoken Sacrifice" (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Stephanie Freid-Perenchio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Slideshow, Navy Seals, Seals, War, Veterans Day, New Books, Books, Military Families, Photography, War Photos, Photos, Books News
Stephanie Freid-Perenchio

After the events of 9/11, I realized that the world of Navy SEALs was still shrouded in secrecy. I wanted to explore and shed light upon this culture that most people had never seen nor fully understood.

Read Post