There’s an alarming paragraph near the end of the introduction of the 2018 National Defense Strategy Report, Providing for the Common Defense–The Assessment and Recommendations of the National Defense Strategy Commission.  It’s a subsection entitled, “Civil-Military Relations.” Civil-Military Relations Constructive approaches to any of the foregoing issues must be rooted in healthy civil-military relations. Yet … More National Defense Strategy

Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness… With the kind You show Yourself kind; With the blameless You show Yourself blameless; With the pure You show Yourself pure. –Psalm  18:24-26 The National Defense Strategy Commission released its report last month and sounded an alarm to Congress:  the U.S. is in danger of … More Disturbing Mentality of Conflict

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The more egregious and extensive Israel’s crimes in Palestine, the greater our culpability.  We are the enablers who backed the original annexation of Palestinian lands, and, worse, the ongoing repression and dispossession of the Palestinian people right up to the present day. So, can we return to righteousness, or are we hopelessly mired in the … More Why We Are Culpable

    Our U.N. Ambassador is standing up for nuclear weapons!    

Sweden has voted to reintroduce military conscription by 1 July after struggling to fill army ranks on a voluntary basis, citing increased Russian military activity in the Baltics as one of the reasons for the policy U-turn.

Independent Filmmaker, Regis Tremblay, will be joining us for a screening of his new documentary, “30 Seconds to Midnight.”  The film examines the perfect storm of apocalyptic threats coalescing against people and planet right now.