Category Archives: War and Peace

In a land of pigs . . . bacon is a sacrament!

Posted on May 23, 2016 by johnrachel

I’m great! You’re great! We’re great! America is great! It makes me feel . . . GREAT! Continue reading →

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Tonya Harding School of International Diplomacy

Posted on April 27, 2016 by johnrachel

I believe that it’s high time that Harvard or Princeton or other equally prestigious institution of higher learning set aside the resources and proper institutional setting for perpetuating and promoting America’s current visionary philosophy of imperial rule, and appropriately call it the “Tonya Harding School of International Diplomacy”. Continue reading →

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Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part IV

Posted on March 29, 2016 by johnrachel

People must unite at a local level, not under party banners, but as a voting bloc around issues that are important to them. Party labels — also very much the case with ideological labels — muddy the waters, get people unfocused on what’s truly consequential. ‘Democrat’, ‘Republican’, ‘liberal’, ‘conservative’, ‘libertarian’ — even more so with ‘socialist’, ‘Tea Party’, and ‘Green Party’ — have recently become so emotionally charged, clear thinking becomes difficult, constructive dialogue impossible. Continue reading →

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Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part III

Posted on March 25, 2016 by johnrachel

Maybe people won’t talk politics. But once the floodgate is open, people will talk about what’s hurting them, what’s holding them back, how they are getting screwed by the system and those who run things, how they had wonderful dreams and hopes for their children which are being destroyed. So talk to them. And listen. Please! The future of our country depends on it. Continue reading →

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How to Become a Target for State Assassination

Posted on March 4, 2016 by johnrachel

The absence of war is not peace. More accurately, in our times the absence of war is a truce. A truce is the abatement of conflict with no guarantee that war will not break out again. Peace is a state where no conflict is ongoing or possible. Continue reading →

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R2P = L2K

Posted on February 25, 2016 by johnrachel

Time to turn the tables and call out the real enemies of America. We’ll start small and build. Samantha Power is currently the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Wherever this violent, disingenuous shrew appears publicly, and even where possible privately, everyone should be reminded she is a murderer and a war criminal. Continue reading →

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Peace is as American as . . . ?

Posted on February 14, 2016 by johnrachel

Has America ever really had a peace movement? Actually not. But peace signs are great! Simple and attractive. Make a great tattoo. Charm bracelet. Bumper sticker. They’re compact, symmetrical. Fit nicely anywhere. PEACE, BROTHER! Continue reading →

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Choose A Symptom, Ignore The Disease

Posted on February 1, 2016 by johnrachel

America is very, very sick. The disease which is destroying our nation feeds on: 1) Unchecked imperial ambitions. 2) Exceptionalist hubris and arrogance. 3) The crushing power of corporations. 4) The militarization of everything. 5) Plutocratic tyranny and greed. None of the presidential candidates will talk about the disease. Because none of them has a cure. Continue reading →

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More Bases More Bombs More War

Posted on January 24, 2016 by johnrachel

The building of new military bases must end. The unnecessary expansion of U.S. military presence throughout the world is bankrupting our economy, incriminating each and every American citizen in horrifying war crimes, risking World War III, and ultimately will collapse the nation and take down the great American experiment. Continue reading →

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Politics is a Rock Concert, Not a Seminar.

Posted on January 22, 2016 by johnrachel

All we have now is war, morning, noon and night . . . 24/7/365. We need a new “anthem” that rocks this nation back to its senses. War and fear and militarization and national bankruptcy are over . . . if you want it. Continue reading →

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