This article appeared November 16, 2006 on The Huffington Post. “I’d rather vote for what I want, and not get it,” said Eugene Debs, “than vote for what I don’t want, and get it.” Debs, of course, ran for…
Year: 2006
Reinventing the United Nations
This piece appeared in the September 2006 issue of The Foreign Service Journal, the official magazine of the American Foreign Service Officers Association. It was part of a six-article special section on “How to Achieve Meaningful UN Reform.” All six…
Posted in Abolishing War
Watered Down Terror
This piece appeared during the week of August 20-27, 2006 on truthdig.com, huffingtonpost.com, and commondreams.org. The real terror threat is the nuclear terror threat. But the left can offer better preventative strategies than an endless “war on terror.” Blowing…
Posted in Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
America and Iran: Three Nuclear Ironies
Earlier versions of this essay appeared in the July/August 2006 issue of TIKKUN MAGAZINE, the June 29, 2006 edition of COMMONDREAMS.ORG, and the July 7, 2006 edition of TRUTHDIG.COM. “With supreme irony,” said historian James Harvey Robinson of the First…
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The Peace Movement’s Plan For Iran
This article, co-written with Jodie Evans, co-founder of CodePink and author of Stop the Next War Now, and Mimi Kennedy, then-Chair of the Board of Progressive Democrats of America, appeared the first week of March 2006 on AlterNet, Common Dreams, and AntiWar.com.…
Posted in Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
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