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Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, From my personal notes on visit to Haiti in 1991

January 29, 2010 – 5:48 pm

Monday, June 17, 1991 Learning of Aristide’s 1990 election and US efforts via Jimmy Carter to defeat him Before lunch, we met with Father Antoine Adrien, a former priest in Brooklyn, New York, a current priest in Haiti, and currently a member of the Committee to Honor and Respect the Constitution and a close personal […]

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Why Do We Kill, Maim, and Colonize? Chief Sitting Bull Told Us in 1877

January 29, 2010 – 4:27 pm

The great Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull resisted forced settlement on reservations in the 1870s. In 1877, after he defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn, he decided to migrate to Canada. He had mixed feelings about such migration as he pronounced the following words:  “Behold my brothers, the Spring has come; the earth has received […]

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Equality and Mutual Aid: Indispensable for Species Survival

January 28, 2010 – 10:13 am

Growing up in the U.S. American culture seriously conditions us into its key features of individualism, acquisitiveness, and competitiveness. For how much longer we will be able to survive in our politics of selfishness and plunder one can only wonder? A new book by social epidemiologist, Richard Wilkinson, The Impact of Inequality: How to Make […]

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Breaking Our Addiction to War

January 25, 2010 – 9:46 pm

I am sick of being anti-war. Are wars inevitable? War crimes? If we really don’t want wars, it behooves us to get serious about understanding their causes, and choose to radically address them. Otherwise, what’s the point? Feeling a “rush” with like-minded folks at political actions only perpetuates our addiction to anti-war rallies, which do […]

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The Problem Resides in the Nature of our Thought Structure

October 13, 2009 – 1:07 pm

Quantum physicist David Bohm has said that to become wholistic thinkers and feeling beings we must drop the mechanistic order that virtually all of us have been conditioned in for the past 400 years. Our thought structures, and therefore the manner in which we conceptualize and communicate, have been guided by mechanistic themes, rather than […]

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