By NOAM CHOMSKY Silence is often more eloquent than loud clamor, so let us attend to what is unspoken. The hopes and prospects for peace aren’t well aligned—not even close. The task is to bring them nearer. Presumably that was the intent of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in choosing President Barack Obama. The prize […]

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This interview with Howard Zinn opens with a discussion of a group of Israeli refusers known as the Sministim (high school seniors).  For some years now, a number of high school seniors get together and write a letter in which they declare their refusal to serve in an occupying army.  Some are pacifists who won’t […]

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient […]

Four nonviolent Christian activists have entered the Shoalwater Bay Training Area this morning to stop the Talisman Saber exercises.  Calling themselves the “Bonhoeffer 4” after Kevin Rudd’s favourite theologian, Margaret Pestorius (44, Social Worker, Cairns), Jarrod McKenna (28, School Peace Educator, Perth) Jessica Morrison (33, University lecturer, Melbourne) and Rev. Simon Moyle (32, Baptist Minister, […]

Jarrod McKenna Around the world tonight 900 million of God’s children will go to bed hungry. We are facing an unprecedented ecological crisis with dire consequences for future generations. Yet conservative estimates say $64 million of Australian tax payers’ money goes into military spending… EVERY DAY. [wait. Take a deep breath. Now, slowly read this […]

Ethnically and linguistically completely different from the other Indonesian populations, West Papua was granted independence but, in breach of an agreement with the Netherlands, the previous colonial master, Indonesia illegally invaded in the early 60s, an invasion, supposedly legitimised by a vote of 1000 or so tribal leaders under the gun. Indonesia has maintained a […]

     Master, how long will it take for me to reach enlightenment?” the eager student asked. “Perhaps ten years,” the teacher answered. “But what if I try extra hard?” the student asked. “How long will it take then?” The teacher thought for a moment and smiled. “Then,” he said, “it will take twenty years.”      […]

The crisis faced by combat veterans returning from war is not simply a profound struggle with trauma and alienation. It is often, for those who can slice through the suffering to self-awareness, an existential crisis. War exposes the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. It rips open the hypocrisy of our religions and secular institutions. […]

The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and the Coexist Foundation have just issued a new report The Gallup Coexist Index 2009: A Global Study of Interfaith Relations which explores the religious tolerance of countries around the globe and the integration of Muslims in Europe.  The full report is posted on www.muslimwestfacts.com.

The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation… Citizens in a state of permanent war are bombarded with the insidious militarized language of power, fear and strength that mask an increasingly brittle reality. The corporations behind the doctrine of permanent war — who […]