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  • May 2, 2025

    The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, every-day people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking.– Clarissa Pinkola Este?s, Ph.D. Jungian psychoanalyst and author Once upon a time, there lived a little girl who could not understand why there was…

  • May 2, 2025

    ”Sept. 11, like other catastrophes, makes people panic, makes them fearful, makes them want to protect themselves and their families against the enemy, who, in this case, is hard to identify.” -James Alan Fox, Lipman professor of criminal justice -Northeastern University in Boston. In the post September 11th world, the…

  • May 2, 2025

    “We know what it takes to lift people out of poverty.”– Queen Rania of Jordan“I would like all of our listeners to know we actually know how to lift people out of poverty. Most poor people are working. Most poor people are smart. Most poor people have skills. They don’t…

  • May 2, 2025

    “Iraq can not be won “militarily.” I said two years ago, the key to progress in Iraq is to Iraqitize, Internationalize and Energize. I believe the same today. But I have concluded that the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq is impeding this progress.” —Congressman John Murtha (2005 Speech on…

  • May 2, 2025

    ” Awareness does not mean discovering and bringing up new parts of ourselves to make war….it is not change that is essential, but the awareness of change…understanding that what is opposing us is part of ourselves that we need.” – Arnold Mindell After Dorothy is swept away by a tornado…

  • May 2, 2025

    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. This month we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – the man who “had a dream” of ending injustice. Despite…

  • May 2, 2025

    “Hurtful and harmful stereotypes do not exist in a vacuum. Continuously repeated, they denigrate peoples, narrow our vision and blur reality.” — Jack Shaheen, Author, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People; Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures…

  • May 2, 2025

    Immediately after Congress nixed the Dubai ports deal, House Speaker Dennis Hastert announced that he would push through legislation to block any company with Dubai interests from running US ports. This legislation would stop DP World from “encroaching on American security,” was the reason.I found myself to be a bit…

  • May 2, 2025

    “If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension …would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Press Conference, Washington, DC,…

  • May 2, 2025

    “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”–Truman Capote, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright As a professor of international affairs and a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, I felt obliged…

Tricia’s Take: THINKING BEYOND WAR AND VIOLENCE