Recent Posts by Prof. Michael Nagler

Remembering Our Humanity

26 Jan 2010 in Metta Blog

“Remember our humanity, and forget all the rest.”
Albert Einstein
The decade has not begun with a paean to human wisdom.  Two recent acts of folly in particular share a deep and pernicious connection that bears some pondering, and I am not even referring to the capture of Ted Kennedy’s seat in a [...]



After Copenhagen: Michael’s latest post

30 Dec 2009 in Metta Blog

Our friends at yes! Magazine have again posted Michael Nagler’s latest blog in which he advances the idea that climate disruption should perhaps be the issue of the coming decade.  Here’s the link.  We highly recommend a free subscription to the weekly news service of yes! .



The Ironies of Peace

18 Dec 2009 in Metta Blog

In 1982 Mother Teresa of Calcutta stunned the world by announcing that she was going into a raging conflict in Beirut to rescue disabled children from an abandoned orphanage. It was during the bombardment that Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel called “Operation Peace [that word again] for Galilee.” It was a stunning [...]



Afghanistan: What Would a Real Policy Look Like?

09 Dec 2009 in Metta Blog

At a Washington meeting some years back Rep. Jim Moran of VA said to a group of us who had come to discuss Mideast policy, “All foreign policy is domestic politics.”  The recently announced ’surge’ of 30,000 additional troops for Afghanistan was designed to placate political pressures on the President, which, even if it were [...]



BIG NEWS!

16 Nov 2009 in Metta Blog

The Search for a Nonviolent Future has been published in Arabic! Soon to be distributed in Syria, Morocco, Jordan, and Lebanon.  We are also working on connections in — yes — Iraq, through our friends in La’Onf, and Palestine.



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