Today, March 19, is a tragic anniversary. As my friend, Wayne Wittman, of Veterans for Peace put it: “On March 19, 2003, after a terrific bombardment called “Shock and Awe” we and the other nations we could coax to join us launched an invasion of the sovereign independent Nation of Iraq.” Our Conductors of War […]
For subsequent posts on the topic of the upcoming election: simply enter Election 2012 in search box. Election 2012 #2 is here. This morning I watched the new 17-minute video recently released by the President Obama Reelection Campaign. It is here. Whatever your preconception of the President (I have huge respect for him and what […]
Today, being a late April day (albeit in the middle of March), with all the snow gone, a short sleeve day and all, seemed a good day to begin the annual housekeeping trek along my walking route which ends on the north side of Carver Lake. Helpfully, one of those small plastic buckets, about a […]
After the recent Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Augsburg College in Minneapolis I posted a small album of 46 photographs of the Forum on Facebook. I chose as the “cover photo” the grainiest of the lot, taken by someone with a cell phone of my friend, Melvin Giles, giving a small Peace Pole to former […]
Dick Bernard This is easily by far the longest blog post I’ve done at this space. The number count says over 8300 words (normal length 600-700 words). Cuba has always intrigued me, though the closest I’ve been is neighboring Haiti, which has both benefited and been cursed by its proximity to the island Communist Republic […]
On a day like today it is difficult to imagine that ten days ago we were experiencing our single day of snowy winter in the month of February. Our local welcoming presence, the carved bear at the corner of Sherwood and Juliet, seemed to be reveling in the snow. But February 29 was an interesting […]
See Update from Carl Peter at end of this post. Going through some old photographs recently I came across this one of Louis Bruhn, taken by my father in May, 1974, at a Valley City State Teachers College alumni gathering in Anoka, Minnesota. (click to enlarge). I lived in rural Anoka at the time, and […]
Coleen Rowley’s post on HuffPost, yesterday, (link below) is the reason for this blogpost. Almost exactly a year ago, someone suggested Coleen Rowley and I have a debate on issues relating to peace and President Obama. I agreed. I actually saved the last of a chain of e-memos about this, dated March 30, 2011. Actually, […]
At the preview of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum on February 14, we were told that, for the first time, the major sessions of the Forum would be live-streamed and accessible around the world. I did not publicize that to my own mailing list, since I was most interested in attendance at the event. There […]
Full disclosure: When Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize I was pleased and not at all surprised. From the moment he took office, the tone of U.S. relations with the rest of the world began to change, and changed rapidly. I was a new blogger when he spoke in Egypt in June, […]