No more wars. It seems that the more we say it the more it seems inevitable and it's consequences exponentially more horrific. Is Europe in a death grip that has dulled their minds to history and what happened in their land twice within thirty years? Has humanity become soul-less and callous to what is happening in Israel? Seems like everyday we hear of an IDF soldier shooting a baby in the head. We shrug and say "another dead baby" . We have been watching the ethnic cleansing and genocide for decades. Why don't we fight a real war to end that? Do we even know whether the Palestinians have finally been allowed to feed from food trucks? Or are they all in prisons being tortured and sexually abused now? Have they removed the thousands of bodies from the concrete rubble or will they just build on top of them and start new rubble in Lebanon? Are we distracted that what they're doing in Lebanon is the same or that Iran has stood it's ground? The wave of killing and war seems to constantly float around all of the middle east. Everyday new threats and more demands for death and destruction.
Does humanity have no way to change what appears to be it's inevitable destiny of destruction and death? Will we survive the last war or will it be the last because there is no else to kill or die?
Yes, Greg, but being "Stoned" is a helluva way to end your life Cirrhosis is a terrible way to exit the planet I've seen some while on the Fire Dept., and it's not pretty. Any Fool can Drink himself to death. Go out fighting!! "Its AA, or its A-men"...
My last job was in a treatment program for prison inmates believed to be addicts. I became a firm believer in the 12 Step programs. Very stiff resistance from the inmates! But hey, "The program works if you're WILLING to work the program." Two of my very best friends happen to be recovering alcoholics!
Yup! When your sick & tired of being sick & tired. Maybe it was the spiritual side that didn't work for the Inmates, but you don't need it. I knew a gentleman that had "Yoda" as his higher power!! lols Me personally its the "Universe." 20 Yrs. C. & S. here from the gutter of rock bottom to an attitude of gratitude. Yes the Big Book it works.
I think it's a matter of resignation to the fact that we, the common citizenry, really cannot stop this madness!! Personally I have no illusions about there being hope for REAL CHANGE in this country (USA; I can't speak for any Europeans). Yesterday, in NY State Primary Elections, several so-called Social Democrats won slots on the ballot for November. Yippy-skippy!! What is a "Social Democrat"? Just another blowhard who will wimp out when the kaka hits the fan!! As we await the final collapse of our country, I pity future generations. What a wreck of a world they are going to inherit!
Personally I do not consider myself a cynic. But I live in a society awash in the cynicism of those running the Big Show. Recognizing that "We're all freaking doomed" does NOT mean we have to surrender to the status quo. Resistance to the End is what's required. Never surrender your own humanity and capacity to understand the world around you and to practice compassion.
The U.S. marks 250 years this July 4th since the Declaration of Independence. The numbers vary, depending on the source, but somewhere between 210 and 225 of those years the country has been engaged in conflicts or war (sometimes simultaneously). The U.S. has never been the peace-loving nation we've been conditioned and socialized to believe it is.
But we're not unique. Even a quick search on Google suggests that in the last 3500 years, only about 8% of the time have there been periods of reduced to no conflicts.
Maybe it's the limbic system of the human brain, but metaphorically violence appears to be deep in our bones.
Pogo had it right: We have met the enemy and he is us.
And I guess the best any of us can do is work on ourselves and resist the siren calls of leaders of any stripe who urge wars of conquest, revenge, or "spreading democracy."
“ “In his book Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire, the political scientist David Michael Smith calculates that the US has been responsible or shared responsibility for the death of 54 million people between 1945 and 2020. Add in domestic social killing and move the time back to the founding of the American Empire in 1776 and the body count climbs to 300 million. In his 2013 book America’s Deadliest Export, William Blum reported that the United States after World War II: worked to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments; interfered in elections held by 30 sovereign nations; tried to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders; bombed more than 30 nations; and tried to suppress nationalist, leftist, and populist movements in at least 20 nations. (These numbers need to be updated for the last three years of the Obama administration and the Trump and Biden presidencies to include, among other things, US funding and protection of Israel’s 2023-20?? genocide in Gaza, Trump’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s sovereign elected president, and Trump’s reckless and failing fiasco of a war on Iran.) The United States is the only country to have attacked human beings (unnecessarily) with nuclear weapons (twice) and has brought the world remarkably close to nuclear annihilation on multiple occasions. It is the clear leader in the global march to societal collapse if not human extinction via climate collapse, ecocide (broadly understood), nuclear proliferation, pandemicide, and artificial intelligence” - Glen Brown
I fear the socialization is so complete that if these numbers were openly discussed on channels as diverse as CNN to FOX, the typical response would be, "well, they had it coming. USA, USA, USA"
As a bona fide (not "democratic"!) Socialist, I firmly believe that the human race went off the rails with the rise of Class Society. I could rant on and on about this, but I'll spare Bill's readers.
Hello TomR... It seems that Homo Sapiens still need to Evolve... Allegedly Humans are derived from Warlike Chimpanzees, and not from Peaceful Bonobos... I suspect for the MAGAs, the Reptilian Brain is Dominant... For DJT, it definitely is
Hello Apache-- not the "Orange Orangutan"/ Wild Man of Borneo?! :/ :o) I believe the answer is in History, and I believe that the Human Race will someday be extinct due to our Local Star the "Sun" in its later stages going "Red Giant" consuming the Earth even Mars will not be safe, (Sorry Elon) and by then due to the massive distances to journey to another habitable Star System the Ship would have to have some kind of future Ion Drive still w/ these distances the Crew would have to be multi- generational. Maybe even thousands of years. If we can pull this off (doubtful) we will seed the Universe. And..., as they say "There went the Neighborhood" lols.
Wow, James Madison must have been psychic!! That quote perfectly describes Trump's "head," as it is filled with an Ego that if released from his cranium would expand at the speed of light to fill the entire Universe!! Of course Donald Dearest did not initiate this problem, he is just its most repulsive temporary actor in the role. As to "democracy"--the better description is civil or civic rights--there is a larger enemy of that concept. Larger than the War Machine, yes. It is called THEOCRACY. And that is exactly what the most dangerous crackpots in our society today are seeking!!!
My comment in The Washington Post on Today's article, 'Rocked by the Iran war, the UAE sours on Trump: ‘We got played’ Across the Persian Gulf region, the president was viewed as a pro-business ally, but his decision to wage war on Iran and his erratic conduct have tarnished his image.
More than anyone working at this Washington Post, or any other reader, it's more interesting for me to see this Today because of this X I sent to The President of the UAE after I saw him grovelling before Trump at the G7
@MohamedBinZayed June 16
Your Excellency, the world is watching the UAE’s role in this war.
The $1 billion your nation paid for a seat at Trump’s "Board of Peace" was not a guarantee of stability. It was a transaction—and the peace you were promised was never delivered.
The Israeli-US war with Iran was planned without your knowledge.
Now your nation hosts US military bases that are legitimate targets of Iranian retaliation.
You are bearing the brunt of a war you did not start and could not stop.
I sent an X December 10, 2025 to @Pontifexm@realDonaldTrumpm@netanyahu @_FriedrichMerz @MarkJCarney, this being an excerpt--when a nation’s power operates as piracy with a flag—enforcing its unilateral will as global law—it does not merely break treaties. It breaks the civic covenant at home.
The lesson learned abroad becomes the survival logic at home. You are building a world on the principle that might makes right. Your own people are now learning that lesson.
What will you build when they have learned it completely?...
Those focused only on Money and Things, cannot see what the Invisible God of Abraham is doing in this material World that can be seen.
They do not see this WAR Theocratic Israel, joined with Theocratic US Christian Nationalism started against Theocratic Iran, is the Beginning of Armageddon, the great Day of the Battle of Almighty God in the Revelation of Jesus Christ 16:13-16 commensurate with the rise of the Hidden Mahdi
Ray, I agree with your political analysis, but can't take seriously your reliance on Biblical prophecy. Yes, the Arab Gulf States paid a price for kneeling to the sword-dancing (!! remember that Trump spectacle?) "Leader of 'the Free World'"!
Gregory, maybe you can't accept what I see, but Muslims take their Religion very seriously. The President pays people to screen his X account. Just mentioning the "Hidden Mahdi" would resonate in their Religion seeing the World as it is Today.
The Washington Post report Today is 8 Days after my X to the UAE President.
The record does speak for itself. I can't boast of anything.
God is much greater than I, restoring my Sight Day by Day, to see the Spiritual Signs and Wonders of the Invisible Hand of God at work in me, and in this Material World.
It is a Fact of my Life I reached an exceptionally high level of visibility as a complete unknown Canadian, at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City.
Calling me out of the compressed delirious crowd of Republicans looking up to the Secret Service restricted balcony having the Presidential Podium set up, the President himself expected to be standing there any minute.
From the start of the Convention I walked softly carrying my big stick looking for any Senator, Representative or Delegate identified by name tag, talking in small groups within the thousands in the Lobby of the Crown Center Hotel.
I was called out of that sardine packed Lobby for questioning by a Secret Service Agent.
It took a while to get out of that compressed crowd, and going up the stairs to the balcony beyond all the Security checkpoints, The Hotel Manager says, "Ray! This man is from the Secret Service and he wants to ask you a few questions."
Thinking he was going to question me in some anteroom, it was a completely unexpected surprise and wonder when the SS Agent led me to stand right at the President's Podium and questioned me Face to Face in view of the Republicans in the Lobby below.
Having shoulder length hair & beard, wearing my trademark #13 jersey in Revolutionary 1976, it was a Revolutionary Image for anyone with that image standing at the President's Podium!
If that wasn't astounding enough, what a surprise when the SS Agent eventually asked me, "Are you Jesus Christ?"
Having no illusions about then and now emphatically answered, "NO!"
FYI, Ray, I have read every word of the Judeo-Christian bible, AND every word of the Koran. [Note that I don't refer to either of these tomes as "holy."] And you are correct on this, Islam encourages its followers to defend their faith most vigorously. That fact never made an impression on the US Ruling Class, which continues to believe that the application of sufficient brute force will make the entire world bow to its demands. We are governed by the insane, and they've never been more dangerous. In the long run, it matters not whether they CLAIM to believe they are doing "God"'s will. Just look at their Supreme Leader! If Donald J. Trump isn't privately an ATHEIST, then I'm the one who's way off the rails!!
The real enemy of the real enemy is apathy, i.e. mistaking endless, repetitive moaning and whining and pining for real action. There is a path to ending America’s obsession with war but it requires doing something other than writing brilliant, articulate articles . . . https://warismakinguspoor.com/a-nation-at-peace/
We’re victims of a hypnotic media stupor. Corpses are center stage. The thunder of exploding bombs is the soundtrack. The curtains are a continuous water sculpture of hemorrhaging blood. And now a word from our sponsor . . . Lockheed Martin, for a safer, happier America!
"while still recognizing the world can be a dangerous place"
Is it really, or if so, because of whom? Recall Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, NYC, "Beyond Vietnam" speech: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government." Since then add complicity with Israel. Absent those two and the world would probably get along fairly well.
Is war the penultimate manifestation of capitalism?
Hello... Anybody keeping track of Climate Change?... Seen the Pictures out of Paris?... Man Proposes, The Creator Disposes... Homo Sapiens may be a Evolutionary Dead End...
Apache: Climate Change & Global Warming. We just got done getting 4" of Rain my rain gauge here in Tiverton R.I./ Fall River, Ma. (We also had a Blizzard 4' ft. of snow this past Winter)-- just like Jolly Old Englands WX used to be for the World Cup, and they are having Europe, England, Austria where my Daughter & Son- In- Law are now at is a Heat Wave 90+ plus Degrees!!!
NOWADAYS INSTEAD OF DECLARING WAR AGAINST OUR ENEMIES WE MERGE THEM WITH OUR MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS
Our treasonous congress is salivating to merge the 2027 1.5 trillion NDAA military authorization with a country that has stolen our nuclear and intelligence secrets and sold them to the Soviet Union and China an has for the last seven decades conducted a brutal genocidal murder campaign against innocent men, women and especially children in Palestine and now Lebanon. :
‘‘The legislation specifies Israel-U.S. coordination with America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Missile Defense Agency, including the Golden Dome initiative, the United States Space Command, directed energy programs, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and other critical technologies that will shape the future distribution of power.”
Congress Is Preparing To Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary
Treacherous ( AND TREASONOUS) provisions in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) mandate that the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Commerce Department, and the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies cooperate with their Israeli counterparts for the purpose of consolidating U.S. and Israeli military activities in order to align efforts and avoid duplication.
I think when you wrote <<Intelligence “community.”>> it should have read "Intelligence" community.
Dr. Thomas W. Dodman, a professor at Columbia University, says "We think of wars beginning and ending. But we should think that war is the default template, and there are beginnings and ends to peace. Wars live on because of their lingering effects. Often the reasons for the next conflict were not fully resolved in the last one." Why not "Give Peace a Chance"? - John Lennon
A CRY FOR LIFE
No more wars. It seems that the more we say it the more it seems inevitable and it's consequences exponentially more horrific. Is Europe in a death grip that has dulled their minds to history and what happened in their land twice within thirty years? Has humanity become soul-less and callous to what is happening in Israel? Seems like everyday we hear of an IDF soldier shooting a baby in the head. We shrug and say "another dead baby" . We have been watching the ethnic cleansing and genocide for decades. Why don't we fight a real war to end that? Do we even know whether the Palestinians have finally been allowed to feed from food trucks? Or are they all in prisons being tortured and sexually abused now? Have they removed the thousands of bodies from the concrete rubble or will they just build on top of them and start new rubble in Lebanon? Are we distracted that what they're doing in Lebanon is the same or that Iran has stood it's ground? The wave of killing and war seems to constantly float around all of the middle east. Everyday new threats and more demands for death and destruction.
Does humanity have no way to change what appears to be it's inevitable destiny of destruction and death? Will we survive the last war or will it be the last because there is no else to kill or die?
Yes, we become inured to death and destruction so quickly. We deaden ourselves to death.
Perhaps living life has become unbearable.
Many thousands have been hoodwinked into believing that being stoned all the time is a way out of the madness. :-(
Yes, Greg, but being "Stoned" is a helluva way to end your life Cirrhosis is a terrible way to exit the planet I've seen some while on the Fire Dept., and it's not pretty. Any Fool can Drink himself to death. Go out fighting!! "Its AA, or its A-men"...
My last job was in a treatment program for prison inmates believed to be addicts. I became a firm believer in the 12 Step programs. Very stiff resistance from the inmates! But hey, "The program works if you're WILLING to work the program." Two of my very best friends happen to be recovering alcoholics!
Yup! When your sick & tired of being sick & tired. Maybe it was the spiritual side that didn't work for the Inmates, but you don't need it. I knew a gentleman that had "Yoda" as his higher power!! lols Me personally its the "Universe." 20 Yrs. C. & S. here from the gutter of rock bottom to an attitude of gratitude. Yes the Big Book it works.
I think it's a matter of resignation to the fact that we, the common citizenry, really cannot stop this madness!! Personally I have no illusions about there being hope for REAL CHANGE in this country (USA; I can't speak for any Europeans). Yesterday, in NY State Primary Elections, several so-called Social Democrats won slots on the ballot for November. Yippy-skippy!! What is a "Social Democrat"? Just another blowhard who will wimp out when the kaka hits the fan!! As we await the final collapse of our country, I pity future generations. What a wreck of a world they are going to inherit!
I can’t keep up with you, Bill! The article I’ve written for Friday is now out of date! I’ll post it anyway, but you’re first, and as always, awesome.
Too much time on my hands. :-)
Seriously, the more people saying this, the better!
I don't hold out a lot of hope (so sorry).
We know what happens to wise leaders like Abraham Lincoln.
Even JFK (who wasn't always wise, but I think was killed for his efforts to be).
It's hard for me to reconcile myself to such cynicism, but I feel myself going that direction.
Personally I do not consider myself a cynic. But I live in a society awash in the cynicism of those running the Big Show. Recognizing that "We're all freaking doomed" does NOT mean we have to surrender to the status quo. Resistance to the End is what's required. Never surrender your own humanity and capacity to understand the world around you and to practice compassion.
Thanks for the advice/encouragement.
I hope I can do that. I certainly have been and will continue to try.
The U.S. marks 250 years this July 4th since the Declaration of Independence. The numbers vary, depending on the source, but somewhere between 210 and 225 of those years the country has been engaged in conflicts or war (sometimes simultaneously). The U.S. has never been the peace-loving nation we've been conditioned and socialized to believe it is.
But we're not unique. Even a quick search on Google suggests that in the last 3500 years, only about 8% of the time have there been periods of reduced to no conflicts.
Maybe it's the limbic system of the human brain, but metaphorically violence appears to be deep in our bones.
Pogo had it right: We have met the enemy and he is us.
And I guess the best any of us can do is work on ourselves and resist the siren calls of leaders of any stripe who urge wars of conquest, revenge, or "spreading democracy."
“ “In his book Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire, the political scientist David Michael Smith calculates that the US has been responsible or shared responsibility for the death of 54 million people between 1945 and 2020. Add in domestic social killing and move the time back to the founding of the American Empire in 1776 and the body count climbs to 300 million. In his 2013 book America’s Deadliest Export, William Blum reported that the United States after World War II: worked to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments; interfered in elections held by 30 sovereign nations; tried to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders; bombed more than 30 nations; and tried to suppress nationalist, leftist, and populist movements in at least 20 nations. (These numbers need to be updated for the last three years of the Obama administration and the Trump and Biden presidencies to include, among other things, US funding and protection of Israel’s 2023-20?? genocide in Gaza, Trump’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s sovereign elected president, and Trump’s reckless and failing fiasco of a war on Iran.) The United States is the only country to have attacked human beings (unnecessarily) with nuclear weapons (twice) and has brought the world remarkably close to nuclear annihilation on multiple occasions. It is the clear leader in the global march to societal collapse if not human extinction via climate collapse, ecocide (broadly understood), nuclear proliferation, pandemicide, and artificial intelligence” - Glen Brown
I fear the socialization is so complete that if these numbers were openly discussed on channels as diverse as CNN to FOX, the typical response would be, "well, they had it coming. USA, USA, USA"
Totally agree, but as with force the vote, I’d still like the fool response to be on the record so that it would be available for consistent ridicule.
Absolutely. I wish every vote by Congress critters would be by roll call - no 'sense of the Senate'; no voice votes.
As a bona fide (not "democratic"!) Socialist, I firmly believe that the human race went off the rails with the rise of Class Society. I could rant on and on about this, but I'll spare Bill's readers.
Which is the issue that can never be discussed in US politics.
Hey, aren't we all "middle class"?
Just kidding ...
Hello TomR... It seems that Homo Sapiens still need to Evolve... Allegedly Humans are derived from Warlike Chimpanzees, and not from Peaceful Bonobos... I suspect for the MAGAs, the Reptilian Brain is Dominant... For DJT, it definitely is
Hello Apache-- not the "Orange Orangutan"/ Wild Man of Borneo?! :/ :o) I believe the answer is in History, and I believe that the Human Race will someday be extinct due to our Local Star the "Sun" in its later stages going "Red Giant" consuming the Earth even Mars will not be safe, (Sorry Elon) and by then due to the massive distances to journey to another habitable Star System the Ship would have to have some kind of future Ion Drive still w/ these distances the Crew would have to be multi- generational. Maybe even thousands of years. If we can pull this off (doubtful) we will seed the Universe. And..., as they say "There went the Neighborhood" lols.
Wow, James Madison must have been psychic!! That quote perfectly describes Trump's "head," as it is filled with an Ego that if released from his cranium would expand at the speed of light to fill the entire Universe!! Of course Donald Dearest did not initiate this problem, he is just its most repulsive temporary actor in the role. As to "democracy"--the better description is civil or civic rights--there is a larger enemy of that concept. Larger than the War Machine, yes. It is called THEOCRACY. And that is exactly what the most dangerous crackpots in our society today are seeking!!!
My comment in The Washington Post on Today's article, 'Rocked by the Iran war, the UAE sours on Trump: ‘We got played’ Across the Persian Gulf region, the president was viewed as a pro-business ally, but his decision to wage war on Iran and his erratic conduct have tarnished his image.
More than anyone working at this Washington Post, or any other reader, it's more interesting for me to see this Today because of this X I sent to The President of the UAE after I saw him grovelling before Trump at the G7
@MohamedBinZayed June 16
Your Excellency, the world is watching the UAE’s role in this war.
The $1 billion your nation paid for a seat at Trump’s "Board of Peace" was not a guarantee of stability. It was a transaction—and the peace you were promised was never delivered.
The Israeli-US war with Iran was planned without your knowledge.
Now your nation hosts US military bases that are legitimate targets of Iranian retaliation.
You are bearing the brunt of a war you did not start and could not stop.
I sent an X December 10, 2025 to @Pontifexm@realDonaldTrumpm@netanyahu @_FriedrichMerz @MarkJCarney, this being an excerpt--when a nation’s power operates as piracy with a flag—enforcing its unilateral will as global law—it does not merely break treaties. It breaks the civic covenant at home.
The lesson learned abroad becomes the survival logic at home. You are building a world on the principle that might makes right. Your own people are now learning that lesson.
What will you build when they have learned it completely?...
Those focused only on Money and Things, cannot see what the Invisible God of Abraham is doing in this material World that can be seen.
They do not see this WAR Theocratic Israel, joined with Theocratic US Christian Nationalism started against Theocratic Iran, is the Beginning of Armageddon, the great Day of the Battle of Almighty God in the Revelation of Jesus Christ 16:13-16 commensurate with the rise of the Hidden Mahdi
Ray, I agree with your political analysis, but can't take seriously your reliance on Biblical prophecy. Yes, the Arab Gulf States paid a price for kneeling to the sword-dancing (!! remember that Trump spectacle?) "Leader of 'the Free World'"!
Gregory, maybe you can't accept what I see, but Muslims take their Religion very seriously. The President pays people to screen his X account. Just mentioning the "Hidden Mahdi" would resonate in their Religion seeing the World as it is Today.
The Washington Post report Today is 8 Days after my X to the UAE President.
The record does speak for itself. I can't boast of anything.
God is much greater than I, restoring my Sight Day by Day, to see the Spiritual Signs and Wonders of the Invisible Hand of God at work in me, and in this Material World.
It is a Fact of my Life I reached an exceptionally high level of visibility as a complete unknown Canadian, at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City.
Calling me out of the compressed delirious crowd of Republicans looking up to the Secret Service restricted balcony having the Presidential Podium set up, the President himself expected to be standing there any minute.
From the start of the Convention I walked softly carrying my big stick looking for any Senator, Representative or Delegate identified by name tag, talking in small groups within the thousands in the Lobby of the Crown Center Hotel.
I was called out of that sardine packed Lobby for questioning by a Secret Service Agent.
It took a while to get out of that compressed crowd, and going up the stairs to the balcony beyond all the Security checkpoints, The Hotel Manager says, "Ray! This man is from the Secret Service and he wants to ask you a few questions."
Thinking he was going to question me in some anteroom, it was a completely unexpected surprise and wonder when the SS Agent led me to stand right at the President's Podium and questioned me Face to Face in view of the Republicans in the Lobby below.
Having shoulder length hair & beard, wearing my trademark #13 jersey in Revolutionary 1976, it was a Revolutionary Image for anyone with that image standing at the President's Podium!
If that wasn't astounding enough, what a surprise when the SS Agent eventually asked me, "Are you Jesus Christ?"
Having no illusions about then and now emphatically answered, "NO!"
https://rayjc.com/2026/02/13/the-invisible-hand-work-in-progress-the-handwriting-on-the-wall-50-years-later/
FYI, Ray, I have read every word of the Judeo-Christian bible, AND every word of the Koran. [Note that I don't refer to either of these tomes as "holy."] And you are correct on this, Islam encourages its followers to defend their faith most vigorously. That fact never made an impression on the US Ruling Class, which continues to believe that the application of sufficient brute force will make the entire world bow to its demands. We are governed by the insane, and they've never been more dangerous. In the long run, it matters not whether they CLAIM to believe they are doing "God"'s will. Just look at their Supreme Leader! If Donald J. Trump isn't privately an ATHEIST, then I'm the one who's way off the rails!!
The real enemy of the real enemy is apathy, i.e. mistaking endless, repetitive moaning and whining and pining for real action. There is a path to ending America’s obsession with war but it requires doing something other than writing brilliant, articulate articles . . . https://warismakinguspoor.com/a-nation-at-peace/
Fucking A John...True peace is never achieved by War...Eleanor Roosevelt said "No one won the last war, and no one will win the next one."
We’re victims of a hypnotic media stupor. Corpses are center stage. The thunder of exploding bombs is the soundtrack. The curtains are a continuous water sculpture of hemorrhaging blood. And now a word from our sponsor . . . Lockheed Martin, for a safer, happier America!
Followed by Raytheon!
I am being puckish.
"while still recognizing the world can be a dangerous place"
Is it really, or if so, because of whom? Recall Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, NYC, "Beyond Vietnam" speech: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government." Since then add complicity with Israel. Absent those two and the world would probably get along fairly well.
Is war the penultimate manifestation of capitalism?
Capitalism did not create Warfare...
"ALL WARS ARE BANKERS WARS"
Hello... Anybody keeping track of Climate Change?... Seen the Pictures out of Paris?... Man Proposes, The Creator Disposes... Homo Sapiens may be a Evolutionary Dead End...
Apache: Climate Change & Global Warming. We just got done getting 4" of Rain my rain gauge here in Tiverton R.I./ Fall River, Ma. (We also had a Blizzard 4' ft. of snow this past Winter)-- just like Jolly Old Englands WX used to be for the World Cup, and they are having Europe, England, Austria where my Daughter & Son- In- Law are now at is a Heat Wave 90+ plus Degrees!!!
https://rayjc.com/2012/07/11/revelation-global-warming-fact-or-fiction-truth-or-consequences/
NOWADAYS INSTEAD OF DECLARING WAR AGAINST OUR ENEMIES WE MERGE THEM WITH OUR MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS
Our treasonous congress is salivating to merge the 2027 1.5 trillion NDAA military authorization with a country that has stolen our nuclear and intelligence secrets and sold them to the Soviet Union and China an has for the last seven decades conducted a brutal genocidal murder campaign against innocent men, women and especially children in Palestine and now Lebanon. :
‘‘The legislation specifies Israel-U.S. coordination with America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Missile Defense Agency, including the Golden Dome initiative, the United States Space Command, directed energy programs, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and other critical technologies that will shape the future distribution of power.”
Congress Is Preparing To Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary
Treacherous ( AND TREASONOUS) provisions in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) mandate that the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Commerce Department, and the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies cooperate with their Israeli counterparts for the purpose of consolidating U.S. and Israeli military activities in order to align efforts and avoid duplication.
https://original.antiwar.com/kucinich/2026/06/24/congress-is-preparing-to-surrender-american-sovereignty-on-the-eve-of-americas-250th-anniversary/
I think when you wrote <<Intelligence “community.”>> it should have read "Intelligence" community.
Dr. Thomas W. Dodman, a professor at Columbia University, says "We think of wars beginning and ending. But we should think that war is the default template, and there are beginnings and ends to peace. Wars live on because of their lingering effects. Often the reasons for the next conflict were not fully resolved in the last one." Why not "Give Peace a Chance"? - John Lennon
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we got down to sticks and stones because China refused to provide the materials of war?
Just wishful thinking.
Just read some Kevin Walmsley
https://kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/chinas-export-curbs-a-disaster-for?publication_id=3320368&post_id=203395694&isFreemail=true&r=r6mi&triedRedirect=true