Posted in Human Rights, Torture & Human Dignity, War and Peace on February 28th, 2009 Comments Off
If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others we would not be willing to have invoked against us.
- Chief Justice Robert Jackson
Chief Prosecutor for the [...]
Posted in Catholic Social Teaching, Faith & Solidarity Reflections, Iraq & Afghanistan War, Militarization & Globalization, Obama's First 100 Days, Peace & Gospel Nonviolence, War and Peace on January 17th, 2009 Comments Off
By Marie Dennis
Pax Christi International, July 10, 2008
The War Abroad
He’s leaning against a tree
The wood has been sold
The land leased
The water poisoned
The rain kills the birds
Somebody takes aim at him
He raises his arms against the black wood
It is not finished
(Dorothy Soelle)
For many hours I sat trying to get my head around what I might say [...]
Posted in Faith & Solidarity Reflections, Iraq & Afghanistan War, U.S. Peace & Justice, War and Peace on October 25th, 2008 Comments Off
By Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
This article was reprinted from the Fall 2004 issue of The Albany Catholic Worker. Claire Schaeffer-Duffy also writes for The National Catholic Reporter.
After twenty minutes of deliberation, a military jury found staff sergeant Camilo Mejia guilty of deserting his unit. On May 21, 2004, he was sentenced to a year in military prison [...]
Posted in Faith & Solidarity Reflections, National Security, U.S. Peace & Justice, War and Peace on October 20th, 2008 Comments Off
By Howard Zinn
With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a boastful, unashamed embrace of the idea.
However, the very [...]
Posted in Faith & Liturgy Resources, Faith & Solidarity Reflections, Peace & Gospel Nonviolence, Solidarity & Globalization, War and Peace on October 20th, 2008 Comments Off
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.
I hear him leading his horse out of the stall;
I hear the clatter on the barn-floor.
He is in haste; he has business in Cuba,
business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning.
But I will not hold the bridle while he cinches the [...]