WORLD-EARTH – posts prior to 2023

CLIMATE CHANGE

– Heat Makes Things More Complicated – That’s One Reason Global Warming is Dangerous
– Borrowed Earth

TORTURE-VIOLENCE

– The Trump Danger to many Christians is Real
– Hitler, Bonhoeffer – and Torture. A Movie.
– Methodist Paper on Guantanamo, Part II: “Because” They Want To
– Nebraska Methodist Article About Guantanamo: Men Love Darkness Because Their Deeds Are Evil
– The Real Screams of Adult Human Beings
– When the President Openly Wants to Torture …
– The Cycle of Torture: What Goes Around Comes Around
– Bush Admin: “Throw Them Against The Wall.” Hate & Arrogance.
– “Because It’s Right” to Ban Torture
– Evil in the Heart is the Only Reason for Torture
– Torture & Abuse of Iraqis by Americans

AMERICAN EMPIRE – WAR

– Right-Wing Violence: Pope Francis’ Early Experience (Llamame Francisco)
– The Expendability of Children – Who Cares? 2 Very Short Poems, CS Lewis, Wendell Berry
– The Trump Danger to many Christians is Real
– Eisenhower on Security – and Moral Bankruptcy
– On War – and Its Effects on Humans
– Support the Troops. Of Course!
– Hitler, Bonhoeffer – and Torture. A Movie.
– Methodist Paper on Guantanamo, Part II: “Because” They Want To
– Nebraska Methodist Article About Guantanamo: Men Love Darkness Because Their Deeds Are Evil
– The (Poor) Community College Kids – And War
– Op-Ed & Editorial in Rural Nebraska Rip Bush Escalation Plan, Call for Support for the Troops
– In the “Not the Voice of Experience” Category
– The Real Screams of Adult Human Beings
– When the President Openly Wants to Torture …
– Support the Troops? “Ma’am, We ARE the Troops.” Put your money where your mouth is.

– Two 5th Anniversaries Compared. 9-11 and Pearl Harbor. Different Results.
– What Difference Does It Make to the Orphans? – Gandhi
– LTE About Iraq Vet’s Nice Vibes [w/Update]
– The Self-Destruction of Empires
– The Imperial President – the Hunger to Have One Unrestrained Sinner Calling All the Shots
– A Very Good Question About Israel, Lebanon, Iran, the US
– Security At Any Price? Not According to Habakkuk.
– Officer Believes US War-Making Makes Us Like Nazis
– Marine General Speaks of Our Ignorant “Casualness and Swagger”
– The Integrity of the Right-Wing Media Elite – MIA
– How To Behave At Funerals, Part II: A Place for Truth-Telling
– The Cycle of Torture: What Goes Around Comes Around
– Bush Admin: “Throw Them Against The Wall.” Hate & Arrogance.
– Things Are Going “Just Fine” in Iraq?
– How To Behave At Funerals (w/ Update)

– M L King Opposed Our Vietnam War. What About Iraq? Juan Cole.
– “Because It’s Right” to Ban Torture
– The Amazing Disappearing (Borrowed) Dollars
– Big Government, & Punishing Innocents for the Crimes of the Guilty
– Shame on Promoters of Corrupt War-making – Personal Story
– Morality: WHICH Kids Do We Send To Their Deaths?
– Mark Twain: “We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem”
– “Family Values” Force Working People Into the Military.
– Was It A Lack In My Faith? A Christian Very Puzzled by His Church.
– Remembering Martin Luther King Jr – Moral & Intellectual Integrity
– Martin Luther King on War: “A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal”
– Evil in the Heart is the Only Reason for Torture
– The Sabbath: From Money, From Injustice, From Cultural Craziness, TO God
– “My Friends Are Dead” and I Wonder …
– Cheney’s Reasons for Invading Iraq – According to Cheney Himself

– Martin Luther King on War, from a Sermon
– The Pope Opposed The American Tsunami.
– Pope John Paul II Against Bush’s Iraq War
– Confessing Christ Against America’s ‘Theology of War’ – The Barmen Declaration
– Torture & Abuse of Iraqis by Americans

GENERAL

– Stand With Israel? Not When Israel Stands Against God.
– A Few Chips Must Fly / Gaza & Israel
– Biden: Our Values Demand BOTH Security and Liberty
– Three Strikes, & It’s Somebody Else’s Turn – My LTE on Iraq War
– Is That Us? – a Navajo Critique of Christianity – “part-time religion”
– Denial, the March of Folly (w/ Hitler & others)
– Anteaters Use AND Preserve Their Crucial Resources – Unlike Humans
– The Civilized Are Responsible
– America Dreams of Empire – A Comment from Germany
– Guilty Men Worshipping Their Own Strength – from Habakkuk
– White House: Don’t Worry – We Should All Be Scared to Death!
– Habakkuk for Today? The Arrogance of Power.
– If We Try to Kill All Our Enemies – We Just Make More
– Some Dare Call It Treason – Bush Sr Does
– Martin Luther King on War: “A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal”
– Why Do They Hate Us? An African Writer & a US Bishop Give Prophetic Answers
– Iraqi Family Man Meets Freedom American Style
– Let America Be America Again – Langston Hughes