Recent Posts by Prof. Michael Nagler

Afghanistan: What Would a Real Policy Look Like?

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!

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.



Upcoming talks

Michael will be interviewed Tuesday, November 17th from 1-2 pm PST on Conversations with Michael Stone , a program featuring “leading edge thinkers in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice and Spiritual fulfillment,” on KVMR, in Nevada City, CA. Live stream will be available here, or if you happen to be in the Nevada [...]



Welcome to the Metta Center!

We are so pleased to invite you to stop by our lovely new office on — yes! — 1730 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way in Berkeley (betw. Francisco and Delaware).  Our phone number and emails remain the same but we have much more room and can have meetings of our own.  The front room will [...]



The ‘Real’ 9/11: a Celebration

Some of you may know that this is the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Satyagraha: September 11th, 1906 at the Empire Jewish Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Not the birth of the principle, which as Gandhi said was already ‘as old as the hills,’ but the launching of his mighty ‘experiments with Truth’ — [...]