December 17, 2010 | Blog
By J.E. McNeil on Conscientious Objectors and Wrongness “When you join the military,” says J.E. McNeil, executive director of the Center on Conscience on War, “one of the hundreds of forms you sign says, ‘I didn’t apply to be a conscientious...
December 17, 2010 | Blog
Pleas by Conscientious Objectors Evolve by Tamar LewinJuly 17, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/us/18conscientious.html
December 16, 2010 | Blog
Must You Be A Warrior To Be A Citizen, Too? J.E. McNeil on why the DREAM Act is worse than nothingDec. 2010 Shalom http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/documents/ShalomDecember2010.pdf
December 10, 2009 | Blog
Two Nobel Recipients, Two Messages December 10, 2009 It can’t be ignored that a man who just ordered 30,000 more men and women into a war accepted the Noble Peace Prize this morning. Obama gave an appropriately humble acceptance speech. He talked about moving from war...
December 2, 2009 | Blog
No Surprise on Afghanistan December 2, 2009 I was asked to attend a meeting at the White House on November 19 to discuss the Afghanistan and Pakistan wars. I was unable to attend because of my mother’s funeral. Now that our president has decided to expand the...
December 1, 2009 | Blog
Thoughts about Our “New” Strategy December 1, 2009 I saw this sign today. It seemed about 8 years late. I commented to my sister about how sad it was that so many people now talk about the war in Afghanatan as though it was a new war. Many of those people...