The humanoid collective is in an unforgiving snit over the refusal of NFL quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, to stand for the playing of the national anthem. For a society that was once grounded in a greater tolerance for individual values and preferences, this reaction...
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Do Flags Kill People?
by Butler Shaffer | Jul 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
No sooner had a sociopath carried out the murder of nine black people at a South Carolina church, than the voice of Boobus Americanus rose up, as one, to get to the cause of the slayings: the Confederate battle flag! The South Carolina legislature hurriedly passed a...
On Celebrating Dependence Day
by Butler Shaffer | Jul 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I shall spend the remainder of this July 4th hiding beneath my bed, with as many pillows packed around me as I can find. I have not forgotten the important “duck-and-cover” strategy in which we were conditioned to protect us from Cold War-era nuclear attacks. I am...
War as a Crime Against Civilization
by Butler Shaffer | Mar 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“The real complaining party at the bar in this courtroom is civilization.” – Judge Dan Haywood, Judgment at Nuremberg In her current article at Antiwar.com, Lucy Steigerwald reminds us that, while the deaths of tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children...
Mainstream Media Hypocrisy: ‘Where Are the Antiwar Voices?’
by Butler Shaffer | Sep 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On CNN yesterday, the question was asked “where are the anti-war voices on TV?” I’ve pondered that question myself. Don’t you remember, at the outset of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, the abundance of speakers who opposed these wars? You know, one major network had the...
On Being Thankful…For State Violence?
by Butler Shaffer | Nov 28, 2013 | The Liberty Report
When people ask me which of the books I have written was my favorite, I respond with my first one: Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival. In it, I analyze how institutions – i.e., organizations that have become ends in themselves – have a...
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