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The Rohingya Holocaust

I will recount my impressions as I watch the Dateline documentary on the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.  I am crying.  Innocent civilians were murdered, shot in the back, children rounded up thrown into flames alive, mass rapes, where it is witnessed that many were children 10-12 years of age. … Continue reading

Is the War on Terror Killing Innocent People in the Middle East?

I remember when I was on the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program in Bangkok.  I asked our teacher, a counter-intelligence officer in response to civilian deaths in Southern Thailand: “who is the enemy”, I asked a few more questions and then asked “are the public the enemy”.  I said it in quick… Continue reading

Natural Wind Disaster or Human Gas Disaster?

I was starting to watch some footage of Hurricane Irma but my heart is asking me to look at Syria.  I haven’t watched the war.  The feeling is can we feel compassion for other people like our own? The US goes through its fears of disaster, so focused.  The Syrians are still… Continue reading

Mohandas Gandhi

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

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