Oklahoma folks, like most people anywhere, are essentially good and decent. The rally at the State Capitol last Saturday confirmed this opinion. Over 100...
More than 300 people showed up for the performance of a "Gift of Peace" on Sunday night. By Oklahoma standards, it was an extraordinary turnout. The sanctuary...
You know who Naomi Klein is, right? She's going to appear in Norman on February 14th to deliver a keynote speech for the University of Oklahoma's symposium on...
March 19th marks the 4-year anniversary of the initial bombing of Baghdad. Within three weeks of that attack Scientists in Britain discovered a radical spike...
On Tuesday, February 20th, the Oklahoma Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace will re-convene in Oklahoma City. We'll discuss further actions we can take to...
In a shameful response to a Democratic call for debate, on Bush's "surge" of more troops to Iraq, John Shadegg (R-AZ) and Pete Hoestra (R-MI) made a call of...
Speculation about a war with Iran has reached the headlines. It is time to step back and consider what we know about Iran and the people who live there. In...
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY--If you have an organizational email list or listserv, please send out. If you are a minister or even member of a church, please consider...
Excerpt: "In my wildest fantasy, I sometimes imagine that the armies of the world will be transformed into disciplined performers of fine music. Can you...
Is peace possible? That's the question that a sampling of Oklahomans answered earlier this month when Jerry Leggett visited our great state with his "Peace...
In this Op-Ed piece, professor Gary Wills comments on the way our society has accepted a subtle but significant change in the way we refer to our president. In...
In today's article, military historian Gwynne Dyer asks the question, 'If Bush ordered an attack on Iran, would the chairman of his Joint Chiefs of Staff go...
Appeal for Redress; active duty resistance show on 60 Minutes this Sunday (Sorry if this is a repeat for some of you, want to make sure this gets around) ...
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech will be recited during the celebration of the civil rights leader's birthday in Oklahoma City next Saturday....
Excerpt: ".Political leaders in nation-states are empowered to order whatever they wish, as long as they can rationalize it as being in the national...
WHY I FIGHT FOR PEACE by Cloy Richards USMC, Iraq Veterans Against the War http://www.occupationstl.net/?q=node/83 Because I can't forget no matter how hard I...
Perhaps the biggest news of the week or month or year was the little item about action taken by the International Criminal Court with regard to crimes in...
This message has a link to an interesting web movie -- about 6 minutes in length, with lots of provocative information about the pace of change in our world....
The Oklahoma Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace has several presentations planned this month, including one on Monday night in Oklahoma City. You can...
PEACE NOW! End it! Troops home now! No Iran war! 4th Anniversary of The Iraq War: NO MORE! Sat.Mar.17 - Rally for Peace: State Capitol Sun.Mar.18 - Spiritual...
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What does “pandemic†mean to you? To Native Americans, who experienced a smallpox pandemic when Europeans began to arrive in North America, it meant...
Here are a couple of announcements from OU's School of International and Area Studies. Both items have been placed on the OK-Global Community Calendar. ...
Hi Bill, friends I've never been convinced of the practicality of the DoP idea, preferring instead that the goals, means, etc of a DoP be folded within State...
Tony-- Thanks for your comments, and thanks for the link to Barnett's website. For readers who don't like to click, I have pasted the original article by Sean...
If you've been a reader of these "OK-Global" messages for very long, you know that I have an interest in the biological origins of morality. I'm persuaded that...
I'm re-sending this message, originally posted on March 21st, because some readers received it in a form that was filled with HTML gibberish -- like this ......
The annual Spring Meeting of the OKC Chapter of the UN Association is coming up. If you're thinking that you would llke to attend, you should reserve your...
There is a theory that the Iranian military has decided to hold on to the captured British sailors for a little while -- to use them as hostages (of a sort)...