November 4, 2010: Below I’ve pasted in an Op Ed piece of mine that was just published on our local paper about the recent Wiklieaks disclosure of several hundred thousand documents from the Iraq occupation, and the resulting uproar in media around the world (but not so much in the US, where we think we have … Continue reading Wikileaks & Torture: Tom Ricks Holds The Mayo
Over at the Quaker House Blog, I’ve got a new post which considers how the ending of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is confidently predicted to portend the end of the US military as we know it. Gotta check it out.
(Dear reader, this post will not likely make much sense if you’re unfamiliar with a series of posts from last week.Part I of the series is here; then Part II is here; and Part III is here. Part IV is here, and a last-minute postscript is here . Anyway, the BYM Interim Meeting convened at … Continue reading BYM-FUM & Money Update: Dodged A Bullet
[NOTE: Part 1 of this blog series is here.] Late this morning, BYM sent out a revised version of the Proposed Minute on money to FUM. The text has been tweaked and reshuffled, and a bit of the offensive text has been edited out. But not enough. Here’s how the key paragraphs look now (as … Continue reading BYM-FUM Minute Revision: A Little Better, Not Much — Part-2
Part IV (Dear reader, this last post will not likely make much sense if you’re unfamiliar with those that came before. Part I is here; then Part II is here; and Part III is here. ) So, once more into the breach. On the Proposed Minute that’s coming before Baltimore YM this weekend on BYM … Continue reading More: Big Change for Small Change: Baltimore Yearly Meeting & FUM– Part 4 (Grand Finale)