Category Archives: War & Peace
New for Christmas: Pocket-Sized Killer Drones
The micro-suicide drone, just in time for Christmas Gwynne Dyer — Dec 20 2022 Some lucky boys and girls are going to find micro-suicide drones in their stockings this Christmas! Get your orders in now! I was idly scanning the website of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, as one does, and I came across a story … Continue reading New for Christmas: Pocket-Sized Killer Drones
Quote for the weekend: World War III
World War III Begins With Forgetting [Excerpts] New York Times — December 3, 2022 By Stelhen Wertheim “[H]ow many Americans can truly envision what a third world war would mean? Just as great power conflict looms again, those who witnessed the last one are disappearing. Around 1 percent of U.S. veterans of World War II … Continue reading Quote for the weekend: World War III
Updates: Ex-Neutral Finland Ready for War if Russia invades, Premier Says
[Note: the sudden about face of Finland & Sweden away from their longtime neutral stance to seek Nato membership was for me like a double lightning strike: I’ve never visited either one, but could see they knew Russia up close, and through hard experience. For that matter, it was clear neither nation was a shrinking … Continue reading Updates: Ex-Neutral Finland Ready for War if Russia invades, Premier Says
Renegade Quaker Theology: My Breaking Point – Summer 2011
In my last paid job, at a Quaker peace project next to an enormous military base during the height (or better, the depths) of the Iraq-Afghan wars, I spent a lot of time looking for spiritual resources for that work, and the life that went with the job. For a long time it seemed pretty hard to find any.