The word “Munich” — for me it calls up images of surfing in a giant park with nude sunbathers and nearby beer halls. But in U.S. news media it means the unconscionable failure to launch a war more quickly.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow is, I think, a terrific contribution to human knowledge and guide to pursuing more of the same — as well as a notable accomplishment for the Davids of the world, who have perhaps been falling a bit short lately. A few of the points it documents and persuades of are:
By Marc Eliot Stein, May 30, 2021 World BEYOND War · What Can The Antiwar Movement Do For Palestine and Gaza? For antiwar activists all over the world, watching Israel and Palestine collapse into another brutal war in the past
Along with other nations, the United States should begin talking about how to put militarism behind it.
Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy.
