Social Justice Magazine
Let’s begin a JFK moon-shot program to end homelessness among American veterans within five years, and end homelessness of any American within 10 years.The ambitious goal of ending the plight of our homeless heroes within five years was originally proposed by Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Veterans Affairs secretary under President Obama. … [Read more...]
According to the Pentagon's lawyer, Martin Luther King Jr., if alive today, would view the US war on Afghanistan as both the act of a Good Samaritan and as necessary self-defense.Jeh C. Johnson, the "Defense" Department's general counsel, said, on the one hand:"I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation's … [Read more...]
Has the President’s olive branch on extending the Bush tax breaks for the rich opened a new era in bi-partisanship? Doubtful.Anyone who isn’t worried about loose nukes – nuclear warheads that can travel long distances, and could find their way into terrorist hands – should have his head examined. Russia and the U.S. still have thousands from the Cold War days. The old Start treaty … [Read more...]
Why does the U.S. government’s foreign policy often hinge on the naïve and moralistic expectation that other countries should act against their own interests? Wouldn’t a more realistic U.S. foreign policy be better for everyone concerned?Let’s take an example. North Korea is a mostly isolated, totalitarian, unpredictable, and downright weird regime. Its only “friend” in the … [Read more...]
As the new START Treaty moves to center stage amid growing alarm from America’s strongest allies that it will not be ratified in 2010, I recall an essay I wrote for National Review Online in December 2004 titled “Roosevelt, Reagan, Rushmore.”I suggested President Reagan reached true historic greatness for his role in reducing the deadly dangers to the world of the nuclear arms race. … [Read more...]
An excerpt from the just published book War Is A LieAfter two world wars with a depression in between, none of which Americans had submitted to voluntarily, President Harry S Truman had some bad news. If we didn't set off immediately to fight communists in Korea, they would shortly invade the United States. That this was recognized as patent nonsense is perhaps suggested by the … [Read more...]
We learn in Sunday's editions of both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times that a deadline of sorts has been set for the pullout of NATO troops from Afghanistan -- 2014! Between now and then, "primary security responsibility" will gradually be transferred from western troops to the government of President Hamid Karzai. Combat operations for the former will gradually cease (or at least be … [Read more...]
To understand just how bad the 112th Congress, elected on November 2nd and taking office on January 3rd, is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful the 110th and 111th Congresses have been during the past four years and then measure the ways in which things are likely to become even worse.Oddly enough, doing so brings some … [Read more...]
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) recently proclaimed that there is insufficient time during the Congressional lame-duck session to ratify the “New START Treaty.” President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had signed it on April 8, 2010. Since Sen. Kyl is regarded as the key Senate Republican negotiator with the Obama administration, which claimed there had been “29 meetings, … [Read more...]
Persistent waffling on dates for American troop withdrawals has eroded any remaining patience with the Obama White House among peace activists and voters, a majority of whom favors a timeline for US troop withdrawals.Nancy Youssef of McClatchy reports that the White House has decided to de-emphasize its pledge to begin withdrawing US forces by next July, and adopt a new goal of … [Read more...]
President Obama’s visit to India last week further cemented the US alliance with Hindu-dominated India in its long proxy war over Afghanistan against Muslim Pakistan.Forgotten in public discussion is India’s active arming and support of the US-backed Northern Alliance in the 2001 war that overthrew the Taliban in Kabul. That war displaced Afghanistan’s Pashtuns, the country’s largest … [Read more...]
Theordore Sorensen, Kennedy's GhostwriterIn the wake of the death of the man responsible for most of President John F. Kennedy’s soaring public phrases, a reassessment is needed of the Kennedy administration, which has been consistently overrated by the media and public. … [Read more...]
The November election was a setback for the peace movement, not only because of the defeat of Sen. Russ Feingold but for deeper reasons.Both parties collaborated in keeping Afghanistan out of the national election debate and media coverage – while during the period June-November alone, 274 American soldiers were killed and 2,934 were wounded on the battlefield.[The official American … [Read more...]
For proponents of American liberty, a volunteer military has always been preferable to conscription. Friends of liberty have appropriately asked how, in a supposedly free country, you can justify unfairly shanghaiing, against their will, an unrepresentative minority of the population—young men—for dangerous service in usually undeclared and often unnecessary wars. Yet although the … [Read more...]
The endless and infinite "war on terra" is bankrupting the planet. I don't mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy. And don't take my word for it. This is the argument made in a new book called "Terrorism and the Economy: How the War on Terror Is Bankrupting the World," by Loretta Napoleoni, a financial reporter for Internazionale, l'Unita, il Caffe, Mondo … [Read more...]
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