14 Articles

Sunday, April 26, 2009
Paying Our Dues for Club America
Taxes are the dues we pay for the privileges of membership in Club America. Patriotism is more than just waving our flag. It's about paying our dues.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Battle For Change Has Begun
(3 comments) The grass roots movement that drove the Obama campaign is more vital than ever to fight Republican determination to wage war against working people.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Israel's Nuclear Weapons
(8 comments) If we truly want to stop the nuclear arms race in the Middle East, we must require that Israel open its secret nuclear weapons program to inspection and international control.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Blind Support For Israel Is Bad Theology
(4 comments) The blind support for Israel among some U.S. Christians is based upon a serious misreading of the Bible.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Israel is illegally using U.S. weapons in its attack on Gaza
(43 comments) Israel is using weapons supplied by the United States to harm Palestinian civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip in violation of the US Arms Export Control Act and the Geneva Conventions.

Friday, November 14, 2008
United We Stand
We the people have spoken and America has elected a new president. Regardless of how we voted, we all need to unite behind the President-elect because our common destiny is tied to his success or failure.

Friday, October 10, 2008
The Real Cause of the Financial Crisis
(2 comments) The real cause of the current financial crisis is our massive debt which is largely due to out-of-control military spending. Massive borrowing by the U.S. government to fund wars and weapons has sucked the liquidity out of the credit markets and fear of a collapsing dollar is sending shock waves throughout world markets.

Sunday, September 14, 2008
What is Community Organizing?
(4 comments) The term "community organizing" has become part of the political discussion because of Barack Obama's past experience as an organizer. The author, who has taught a course in community organizing at Georgia State University, seeks to shed some light on this topic.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Understanding the Reality in Palestine
(2 comments) The Quaker representative on a fact-finding delegation to Israel and Palestine reports on his observations there.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
McCain Unjustly Calls the Iraq War Just
(2 comments) This article tests John McCain's claim that the Iraq war is just against the principles of the Christian just war theory.

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Rev. Jeremiah Wright: A Prophetic Voice of Warning for America
(4 comments) Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaks with the same prophetic voice used by the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah. He warns that America will suffer the wrath of God unless it turns away from war, racism and greed. Those who condemn Rev. Wright worship America as an idol that must never be criticized.

Monday, March 10, 2008
The Truth About Terrorism
(1 comments) The U.S. is losing ground against terrorism because of its reliance on military power. The truth is that if we want real security, we must work to stop our government from relying so heavily on military force that ends up creating even more terrorists. If the U.S. became the biggest supplier of hope in the world instead of the world's biggest arms supplier, the wellsprings of terrorism would soon dry up and disappear.

Friday, February 29, 2008
Class Warfare in America: The Upper Class is Winning
(5 comments) There are those who contend that in America we should never talk about class because it is dangerous and divisive. The fact is that the upper class has been waging a very successful war on our middle and lower classes since they put Bush into office.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Churches of Peace: as Jesus lived and taught
(19 comments) America's churches could turn the world toward peace if every church lived and taught as Jesus lived and taught. As Christians we must ask ourselves--Are we really following in the footsteps of Jesus? Are we working for peace or are we promoting war?