Category Archives: Terror and Terrorism

Spiritual Companions Now Attend Executions; It’s a Tough Gig, but Righteous

AP News: Spiritual advisers offering final comfort in execution rooms BY JIM SALTER — February 6, 2023 ST. LOUIS (AP) — For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room, alone except for the eyes of witnesses staring through thick, soundproof glass as unidentified … Continue reading Spiritual Companions Now Attend Executions; It’s a Tough Gig, but Righteous →

Time to Close Gitmo, Says Its First Commander

[NOTE: First, a reflection: Quakers are known, in part, for a devotion to losing causes. This penchant was deftly satirized by Doug Gwyn, a renowned scholar/songwriter, in his ditty, “Yonder Stands the Quaker”: “Yonder stands the Quaker, Looking quaint as a box of Quaker Oats . . . Yonder stand the Quakers, On the far … Continue reading Time to Close Gitmo, Says Its First Commander →

Another for Dr. King: The Night March & The Killers

Selma, Alabama, February 1965 I I was arrested again on February third, marching outside the Dallas County courthouse in downtown Selma. I spent the following ten days in jail. Half that time I was back in the county jail’s dayroom, where I had been crammed in with Dr. King and 200-plus other marchers on February … Continue reading Another for Dr. King: The Night March & The Killers →

Gwynne Dyer: Ukraine Is Moving Toward A Winter Offensive

The hard freeze is imminent and the next Ukrainian offensive will follow not long after Gwynne Dyer · Columnist — Jan. 3, 2023 It’s still unseasonably warm in Ukraine, but there’s a chance of a hard freeze next weekend. By mid-month, it should be reliably below zero almost all the time: the ground will be … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Ukraine Is Moving Toward A Winter Offensive →

Breaking: Is Nothing Sacred? Saudis Jail Two Wikipedia Editors

[NOTE: I use Wikipedia almost every day. It’s perhaps the finest flower of the rapidly-disappearing era of the free (as in built for honest public service rather than profit or propaganda) internet. But the Saudi rulers know how to deal with such unwelcome ideas & their advocates: if bribery doesn’t suffice (as in golf), jail, … Continue reading Breaking: Is Nothing Sacred? Saudis Jail Two Wikipedia Editors →