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Here’s an anniversary no one wants to celebrate: The Columbine school shooting — April 20, 1999 — just passed its 25th anniversary. Fifteen dead (including the two shooters), 21 injured. A new era begins . . .Why, why, why bring up such a horrific event? Perhaps because it hasn’t stopped.Even though I sit here in […]

Wednesday, February 14th, 2024, By Robert C. Koehler, m http://commonwonders.com/the-war-on-gaza-public-relations-vs-reality/ For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us — the onlooking and supportive patriots — war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a., public relations, served up for public consumption. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be.…

This is madness. But in the context of mainstream reportage, this is nothing more than Israel defending itself By Robert C. Koehler,  http://commonwonders.com/neck-deep-in-the-big-muddy/ 31 Jan 24 Read the news, hup, two, three, four! “Top United States officials prodded Israel on Monday to do more to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip . . .” Thus began…

OPINION- I inhale the big, do-nothing shrug that always follows the annual posting, by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, of its global metaphor for Armageddon.

OPINION- There are a number of blatant ways for terrorist organizations – by which I mean national governments – to justify committing mass murder.

OPINION- In most media coverage of war — including the hell in the Middle East, where World War III looms —the unexamined assumption is that we, the readers, are spectators, looking on as the missiles fly (mostly in one direction) and Good dukes it out with Evil yet again.

Realizing that I’ve been taking something for granted is never an abstraction. It generally happens by whack and wallop.

By Sonali Kolhatkar Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked our permission. We are being dragged, unwillingly, into a war that is decimating a people.

By Robert C. Koehler, 20 Sept 23, http://commonwonders.com/floating-for-peace-on-the-golden-rule/-- It’s 10 p.m. at Montrose Harbor in Chicago. Kiko and Tamar help me step from the dock into the wobbly rowboat. Kiko rows us out to the Golden Rule and I climb aboard in wonder. Oh my God! This is it – the 30-foot, anti-nuke sailboat with…

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023, By Robert C. Koehler, http://commonwonders.com/3828-2/ Freedom’s just another word for . . . blowing up your children? Giving them cancer? Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest shred of news that has left me stunned and terror-stricken is this, as reported by Reuters: “The Biden administration…