Here’s how to sound wise when writing a story about mass killings and gun control. Last week saw two such massacres in Serbia (eight deaths and nine deaths respectively) and only one in the United States (eight killed in a mall in Allen, Texas). By Gwynne Dyer, in Opinion · May 8, 2023 There … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer on Mass Shootings
AP News: Source: Investigators examine ideology of Texas gunman BY JAKE BLEIBERG AND REBECCA BOONE May 7, 2023 ALLEN, Texas (AP) — The assailant who killed eight people at a Texas outlet mall on Saturday was identified by authorities Sunday as a 33–year–old man who had been staying at a nearby motel. Three law … Continue reading A Tough Two Days in Texas
No Monarchs In Texas: We Have a Republic(an) Government A Postcard from the Kremlin . . . .
Back in the day, the Vietnam years, resisters against the military draft could muster an occasional bit of whimsy. A favorite button was about beer. But if truth is the first casualty of war, for many of us whimsy and a sense of humor were soon missing in action too. Draft resistance became a mass … Continue reading Say Hello to The New “Antiwar” Movement: It’s Already Winning
[NOTE: In 2008, Al McCoy was a main speaker at a conference on U. S. torture that I helped organize. Both his talk and his academic record marked him as a scholar to reckon with on matters of foreign policy and empire. This record drew me to this new analysis of the rapid shifts of … Continue reading Alfred McCoy on the Rise of China