“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Martin Luther King’
No More “King-Washing” the Pentagon, Please
Posted: January 16, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Brave New Foundation, budget, debt, deficit, Derrick Crowe, Jr., Martin Luther King, Pentagon, Robert Greenwald, spending, video, war, war costs
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Why Did Dr. King Take on Anti-War Activism?
Posted: June 13, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Christianity, Gospel, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, peace, war
“…because I am determined to take the Gospel seriously.” –Martin Luther King, Jr., A Time to Break the Silence on Vietnam. Happy Sunday.
President Obama Disgraced Himself at Nobel Ceremony
Posted: December 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, myth of redemptive violence, Nobel prize, nonviolence, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, Sermon on the Mount
Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. The views expressed are his own. Say no to escalation in Afghanistan by signing our CREDO petition at http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/saynotoescalation/. Join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter to show your opposition to the war. But make these your [...]
The Death Star Strategy in Afghanistan
Posted: November 10, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Cesar Chavez, Death Star, escalation, Jesus of Nazareth, Martin Luther King, McChrystal, Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr, to Gandhi, troop increase
The last few hours have been a flurry of news reports on the President’s supposed decision on troop levels for Afghanistan. First, CBS News reported that the president planned to send roughly 40,000 troops to Afghanistan for about four years. Then, CNN reported that the White House angrily denied CBS News’ assertions, with two unnamed [...]
Sliding Goalposts
Posted: July 9, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, Good Samaritan, Jesus, logic, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, Pete Kilner, violence
Today I came across Joan Baez’s “funny defense” against the “What would you do if…?” critique of pacifism. It’s a fantastic short read, and I’d recommend it to anyone who’s ever been pinned in a corner by hypothetical arguments about the necessity of violence in some situations (although Baez is wrong about Jesus’s teachings counseling [...]
Time to Break the Silence on Afghanistan Escalation
Posted: April 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Break the Silence, Get Afghanistan Right, Martin Luther King, Obama, Pakistan, Predator, Reaper
Forty-two years ago last Saturday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City to indict his country’s war policies in Vietnam. Entitled “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break the Silence,” this seminal speech attacked the paralyzed apathy stifling his nation’s ability to yield to the clear moral imperative [...]
Dr. King, Drones and Widening War
Posted: April 5, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, P.W. Singer, Pakistan, Predator, Reaper, Wired for War
Message creep tracks mission creep. “The real problem is Pakistan!” Mechanized hunter-killer falcons wander out of the Graveyard and hurl hellfire. Afghanistan becomes “AfPak.” The strike areas grow. A widening gyre whose center cannot hold. April 4, 1967: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gives one of the most important and least remembered speeches of his [...]
Campaigns Love War, and War Hates the Poor
Posted: October 12, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Jesus, Martin Luther King, nonviolence
From The Globe and Mail, emphasis mine: In the U.S. “debates,” it was the bleakest moment for me so far when Barack Obama said he lamented the war in Iraq because it “weakened our capacity to project power around the world.” Not because it was wrong to invade and occupy a distant country, or even [...]
