September 2009

Major Michael Davis O’Donnell,

Vietnam Revisited: Leroy V. Quintana

 

Taking an Example from Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu receive the Fetzer Institute’s Prize for Love and Forgiveness

Dalai Lama Receives Award from the National Civil Rights Museum


The Dalai Lama Receives the International Freedom Award and Declares Himself a Feminist

Engage on Mutual Interest and Mutual Respect

President Obama delivered a Speech to the United Nations General Assembly today, September 23, 2009.  Some of his opening lines can be seen below.  In his speech he invited us all to begin to think

The Emancipation Proclamation

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter

 

September 22, 1863

September 21, The International Day of Peace

It's September 21, and something is happening around the world.  It's the International Day of Peace!  In some places on the globe it is being celebrated as a holiday, in other places, less visibly observed.  However, this is the one day set aside  each year for individuals, communities, organizations and governments to con

President Obama Presents Medal of Honor

September 17, 2009

President Obama presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to Sergeant First Class Jared Monti for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sergeant First Class Monti received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions in combat in Afghanistan.

Mary Travers is Dead

       

Berthold Brecht: The War Primer

Jan Theuninck

 

Jan Theuninck

Reflecting on the Words of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Following World War II, Einstein spoke out against war for humankind to act more compassionately.  He became a prominient figure in the World government movement and was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel, which he declined.  However, became very involved with establishing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In his own words:

 

Pablo Neruda (Chilean)

 

from To Live One Hundred Years

Those one hundred years I lived

one body to the next, from war to war,

drinking the blood of the books,

of the newspapers, of the

television, of the house,

of the train, of the spring,

of the Spain of my sorrows.

 

I asked myself so many questions

that I went to live at the shore

of the heroic and simultaneous sea,

Reflective Writings and Art: Understanding War

Ellie Schoenfeld

Ellie Schoenfeld is a poet native to Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Screaming Red Gladiolus! (Poetry Harbor, 1999) and Difficult Valentines (Fallow Deer Books, 2004), and her work has been published in an anthology, The Moon Rolls Out of Our Mouths (Calyx Press, 2005), with the four other women in her writing group. Schoenfeld enjoys collaborating with artists of other genres.

Social Media Revolution

This is an interesting look at how rapidly and dramatically social media like facebook are transforming culture and relationships.

Ai

 

John Magee

 

John Magee
(1922-1941)  

The Pre-World War II Poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann