Peace
Open Thread 03-11-22 - Some of Them Were Angry
Submitted by OPOL on Fri, 03/11/2022 - 7:18am
NOTE:The title and much of the quoted text are from Jackson Browne's brilliant Before the Deluge
Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools
They would need to make their journey back to nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring
With their hearts they turned to each other's hearts for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge
As we head into the abyss...
For far too long far too many of us have mostly ended up just going along with some of the worst acts against humanity, ever. Either in outright denial of reality or via superhuman feats of rationalization...or by being misled in one way or another, or by simple exhaustion, pummeled as we are by the constant torrent of media-borne propaganda.
Open Thread - 12-24-21 - Merry Christmas!
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 12/24/2021 - 7:00am
Merry Christmas c99!

To my brothers and sisters here at c99, a toast.
Dr. King
Submitted by Linda Wood on Mon, 01/18/2021 - 1:00pmhttps://original.antiwar.com/martin_luther_king/2017/01/15/why-i-am-oppo...
Martin Luther King
"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"
April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York
Monday OT: Sept 21 - The International Day of Peace
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 09/21/2020 - 9:40am
Prickle-Prickle, Bureaucracy 45, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.15.11 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

Peace - Public Domain
Real progress towards peace and justice
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 05/19/2020 - 1:10pmA silver-lining from the pandemic appears to be that it's distracted the warmongers in the press, which has given President Trump more space to get our troops out of the Forever Wars.
Self-Isolating
Submitted by janis b on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 10:33pmI’m self-isolating as instructed, for 4 weeks. I would find it soothing right now to be at a monastery in the mountains somewhere, which leaves me wondering how I can achieve a place of greater peace and serenity at home. What do you consider the necessary essentials for achieving greater peace and serenity at this time - and by what principles do you guide yourselves?
At least Spring is coming for you all in the Northern Hemisphere.
If This is Real, a Path for Change has Finally Opened.
Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 4:29pmALL US TROOPS ARE LEAVING AFGHANISTAN
U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, shake hands after signing a peace agreement between Taliban and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday. | Hussein Sayed/AP Photo
The American People need to see that something is "possible" before they will support change. Let's hope more headlines like this will do the trick.
Tucker Carlson interviews Tulsi Gabbard--two important lessons
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 1:59amNotice: I am extremely biased in favor of Tulsi Gabbard. One of the two lessons I hope to impart concerns the essence of her foreign policy stances. The second lesson concerns the circumstances of Tucker interviewing Tulsi at all.