GWB: “Ah, we did? I don’t think so.”
An “unintentionally hilarious interview of President George W. Bush”:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/campaign/27bush.html is excerpted in today’s New York Times_. One gem concerned global...
View ArticleMilitary Intervention – For the Flu?
h3. By Johann Christoph Arnold “If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country? And how do you, then, enforce a quarantine? …One option is the...
View ArticleSmoking gun: the oil companies did write America’s energy policy
Shortly after the Bush Administration took office, Vice President Dick Cheney held a series of secret meetings in the White House that have guided America’s energy policy over the last four years. The...
View ArticleCindy Sheehan “resigns”: It’s up to us now
Poor Cindy Sheehan, the famous anti-war mom who camped outside Bush’s Crawford Texas home following the death of her son in Iraq. News comes today that she’s all but “resigned from the protest...
View ArticleReach up high, clear off the dust, time to get started
It’s been a fascinating education learning about institutional Catholicism these past few weeks. I won’t reveal how and what I know, but I think I have a good picture of the culture inside the bishop’s...
View ArticleWar Resisters League’s Military Spending “Pie Chart”
The War Resisters League has issued its famous “Pie Chart” flyer showing “Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes”:http://warresisters.org/piechart.htm. An annual tradition, this flyer breaks down U.S....
View ArticleThirty years later: Kissinger’s war crimes
Newly-declassified documents from the U.S. State Department show that former U.S. Secretary of State “Henry Kissinger sanctioned the dirty war in...
View ArticleThe Quaker who lived with the CIA
I usually find stories of Friends by tracking a list of a hundred-plus Quaker-related RSS feeds. I’ll also find them being shared on Facebook or in the Reddit Quakers group. For the first time ever I...
View ArticleQuakers in Politics Live Web Panel (March 22 2018)
Back last August, Greg Woods noticed that there were some Quakers running for U.S. Congressional seats. While modern-day Quaker politicians are not unheard of, they’re also not particularly common and...
View ArticleRedefining rude
From Molly Sheehan, one of a small “gray wave” of Quakers who ran for Congress this year (she lost her primary bid): When the marginalized cry out for compassion, they are not censoring anybody. They...
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