Our National Budget Shows US Values

I’d have felt better about paying my taxes this week if I liked where most of them were going! The leaders of the Poor People’s Campaign, Rev Dr William Barber II and Rev Dr Liz Theoharis, joined by Lindsay Koshgarian of The National Priorities Project summed up my...

Fireworks – or Bombs – Overhead?

When we watch the fireworks exploding overhead this fourth of July, let’s all think for a minute what it would be like to be civilians trapped under life-threatening explosions in the sky. Not pleasant, but perhaps imagining this will help us understand what Iraqis...

Why Surround the White House?

Why am I going to Washington, DC next Saturday? Why do I want to join with others in the People’s Climate March  to surround the White House? Why do I want to tell Trump to pay attention to the fires in Florida, the floods in California, and — far from our shores —...

Mosul: 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 of the Sunni-Shiite conflicts which strengthen Islamic State...