Reclaiming Jesus — A smart 3-page article
This smart 3-page article provided some of the content for our October 2019 TV program: reclaiming_jesus This short follow-up item is relevant too: Call to Prayer, Fasting and Action
Peace (See Foreign Policy and specific nations and regions — and ALSO see Military Spending and Nuclear Weapons)
The Heresy of Christian Nationalism
See the short article at this link: The Heresy of Christian Nationalism
Our militarized society fails to appreciate Conscientious Objectors.
Every year several holidays celebrate war and militarism: Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Veterans Day are national holidays. In many, many ways militarism is honored and celebrated, but peace and people with religious and conscientious objections to war are ignored, if not vilified. On September 4, 2019, the Port of Olympia announced that it will celebrate military troops on Sept. 6 with sirens and flashing lights. I’m still waiting for nearly 50 years for any local governments to celebrate Conscientious Objectors – the many people in the U.S. and elsewhere whose consciences or religious faiths prevent us from […]
Short article: The currently dominant worldview is hurting our society in many ways.
Our society is suffering in many, many ways. The problems are all around us — and they are interconnected. They are rooted in a worldview that has been dominating the U.S. (and some other nations) increasingly in recent decades. I wrote a long article about this. Here is a very short article that summarizes a few of the main points. I published it in a recent issue of Works in Progress (www.olywip.org): This currently dominant worldview is hurting us.
SUN SEPT 29 in Seattle: People’s Town Hall on Nuclear Weapons
You can catch a bus from Lacey’s Panorama community to this Seattle event opposing nuclear weapons. Contact Joanne Dufour at (206) 550-1841 jdufourhc@msn.com for info about the bus and to reserve your seat. Here is information about the event: https://www.wpsr.org/wpsr-events/2019/9/29/peoples-town-hall-on-nuclear-weapons Tickets for the event (but not the bus): https://townhallseattle.org/event/peoples-town-hall-on-nuclear-weapons/ To reserve your space on the bus, contact Joanne Dufour at (206) 550-1841 jdufourhc@msn.com For more opportunities to work toward abolishing nuclear weapons, please join with the Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Contact Glen Anderson, OCANW’s chair at (360) 491-9093 or glenanderson@integra.net. See much information at the Nuclear Weapons part […]
WED SEPT 25 webinar to help you organize locally to prevent nuclear war — Sponsored by Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists (www.ucsusa.org) is a very knowledgeable and credible organization that works on some important issues, including nuclear weapons. They are offering a webinar on WED SEPT 25, 2019, to help us become more effective in organizing locally to prevent nuclear war. If you are interested, please sign up through this reputable organization. Here is a sign-up link: https://secure.ucsusa.org/onlineactions/rWzCCQIzukWifzX7UghFjg2?emci=45196c27-cfc9-e911-bcd0-281878391efb&emdi=b51c447e-3ecf-e911-bcd0-281878391efb&ceid=1677746&contactdata=BphVcbR26wicHdM8%2bZZ38hJsgJ%2bAfHQfFu%2fnoWZoZNIhDZIyDsCD9w63EXxeECImJVg6DNWICgVehwZ0NBhmf58LJ7hKC%2bV8k9wVlmkrorEPi3CPRAaQB12Z%2fEFWe27PdA%2fDNu2PpqmdoCS4iNJrgQ%3d%3d Their e-mail announcing this opportunity says this: The Trump administration is currently moving forward with plans to spend more than $1 trillion to replace the entire US nuclear arsenal and build new more “usable” nuclear weapons. All while […]
Candidates Must Commit to Immediate US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
This article’s lead paragraph reports this: On July 30, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan reported that the Afghan government and international military forces, primarily the United States, caused most of the civilian deaths in Afghanistan during the first six months of 2019. That’s more killings than those perpetrated in the same time period by the Taliban and ISIS combined. https://truthout.org/articles/candidates-must-commit-to-immediate-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=84b92979-bb4e-43d9-975d-6146d244cab9
Expert exposes Trump’s suppression of truth: “The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security”
The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security Politics intruded on science and intelligence. That’s why I quit my job as an analyst for the State Department. By Rod Schoonover, who was a senior analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the State Department. July 30, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/opinion/trump-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
U.S. tests missile that the INF Treaty would have prevented, but Trump canceled the INF Treaty.
On August 18, 2019, the U.S. tested a ground-launched cruise missile that the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty had prohibited since the Reagan-Gorbachev era, but Trump’s cancellation of the INF Treaty went into effect earlier this month, so now the U.S. and Russia are fighting a new Cold War. See the article I linked below. It has this headline: “Nuclear Weapons Arms Race Is Here”: Russians, Anti-Nuke Experts Denounce US Missile Test The article begins with these short paragraphs: A spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “such tests only proved that from the very start, the Americans were […]
Let’s Boldly Create the Future We Really Want
I wrote this essay to encourage people to create a very good future for all of us” CLICK THIS LINK: Let’s Boldly Create the Future We Really Want
The U.S. Deserves Its Own Nuremberg Trials
This smart, insightful article deserves to be read widely and acted upon: https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/The-U-S-Deserves-Its-Own-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Afghanistan-War_Donald-Rumsfeld_George-W-Bush_International-190325-349.html
Militarism is the U.S.’s national religion!
A retired Air Force officer who was raised Catholic wrote this powerful article. It deserves to be read widely. Here it is: https://truthout.org/articles/military-might-is-our-national-religion/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f6a2f5ca-73b0-41a9-bf35-b85dcd8f0210
Korea: Recent information, insights and recommendations
Diplomacy with North Korea should include reuniting families separated in the early 1950s. See this article: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/455595-reuniting-families-is-a-critical-step-in-diplomacy-with Urge Congress to finally END the Korean War, which has never been officially ended. Most Americans — and probably most members of Congress — do not know that THE KOREAN WAR WAS NEVER OFFICIALLY ENDED. A truce was proclaimed about 70 years ago, but the war is OFFICIALLY still underway. NOW WE MUST FORMALLY AND EXPLICITLY END THE WAR! The Korean Peninsula needs stable peace. On June 30, 2019, Trump visited North Korea, which was a positive step, but nobody trusts Trump […]
Urge Congress to pass “No First Use” legislation to prohibit starting a nuclear war — and other bills opposing nuclear weapons!
SUPPORT the “No First Use” bills: The U.S. Constitution explicitly states that only Congress can declare war, but since 1945 presidents have claimed the de facto power to start the most horribly destructive war possible without any congressional approval, and Congress has allowed that unconstitutional power to persist. We must restore the Constitution – especially now during the Trump era. • S.200 and H.R. 669 are companion bills. • S. 272 and H.R. 921 are companion bills. Senator Markey and Rep. Lieu introduced Senate and House legislation (S. 200 and H.R. 669) that would limit Trump’s (or any subsequent president’s) […]
Presidential candidates MUST pledge “No First Use” of nuclear weapons! But CNN’s debate journalist BIASED his question about this.
Most Americans want a “No First Use” protection against starting a nuclear war. But during an early August 2019 presidential debate, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked about it in an extremely biased and deceptive way by referring to “No First Use” as “tying the President’s hands.” Actually, “No First Use” is REQUIRED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, which explicitly says ONLY CONGRESS has the authority to declare war. However, since 1945 a de facto loophole has existed in which a president has grabbed the power to start the biggest war of all — a NUCLEAR WAR — without getting Congress to declare […]