Cómo convertir un mundo sin enemigos en el sitio más amenazador del universo El enemigo comunista, con “el cuarto ejército del mundo”, ha estado agitando misiles y amenazando a EE.UU. con el aniquilamiento nuclear. Guam, Hawái, Washington: todos, afirma, son posibles objetivos. La cobertura en los medios ha sido horripilante. EE.UU. está enviando apresuradamente un sistema [...]

Feelings of fear and powerlessness are driving the cycle of violence that surrounds us. To change that, we need to recognize that we need each other to thrive as individuals. In his book Violence, psychologist James Gilligan asked a Massachusetts prison inmate, “What do you want so badly that you would sacrifice everything in order [...]

How to Turn a World Lacking in Enemies into the Most Threatening Place in the Universe The communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration.  Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable.  The coverage in the media has been hair-raising.  The [...]

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You It’s true that, last week, few in Congress cared to discuss, no less memorialize, the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.  Nonetheless, two anniversaries of American disasters and crimes abroad — the “mission accomplished” debacle of 2003 and the 45th anniversary of the My Lai massacre — were at least noted in [...]

After Newtown: Turning Schools Into Prisons Outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre may or may not spur any meaningful gun control laws, but you can bet your Crayolas that it will lead to more seven-year-olds getting handcuffed and hauled away to local police precincts.

Seven Easy, Onscreen Steps to Making U.S. Torture and Detention Policies Once Again Palatable On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s deeply flawed movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, opens nationwide. The filmmakers and distributors are [...]

Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being [...]

“In the end, after he has felt the full force of our justice system, what will be remembered are the good people who were impacted by this tragedy,” President Obama said this week in Aurora, Colo., after the shootings. That’s probably not true. From Charles Whitman up to the present day, the collective American memory preserves the [...]

La matanza que tuvo lugar en un cine de un suburbio de Denver desencadenó, al igual que en tantas otras ocasiones luego de que se produjeran similares atrocidades, el previsible coro de lamentos que a su vez se preguntaba por qué periódicamente aparecían en Estados Unidos monstruos capaces de perpetrar crímenes como los del tétrico [...]

  Rigoberto Alpízar, de Cariari de Guápiles, fue acribillado a balazos por los air marshals gringos en el Miami International Airport, un 7 de diciembre de 2005. En aquel entonces, su muerte me impactó particularmente.