[Joe Biden’s Mandate]
PeaceVoice\Robert Koehler: “The essence of the Biden agenda, as presented so far, seems to be pulling the good old USA back into what we never were: one united country, free of racism, hatred, fear of one another. And to cooperate with the Republicans.”
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Robert Koehler
Donald Trump Lives in his Alternative American Reality of Lies
[PeaceVoice\Robert Koehler]
Robert Koehler: “I find myself gaping open-mouthed — what else is there to do? — at the transcript of Donald Trump’s 2 a.m. press conference blather, in which he made everything perfectly clear: If you didn’t vote for him, if you do not support him, you aren’t an American.”
Photo: Gage Skidmore\Wikipedia Commons
The 2020 Election, Trumpism, And America’s Emerging Anti-Racism Revolution
[Trumpism & America’s Anti-Racism Revolution]
PeaceVoice\Koehler: “A real democracy, of course, has always been a terrible inconvenience to those in power, which is why, in the nearly two hundred and fifty years of the nation’s existence, voting — as well as acknowledgment of certain people’s humanity — has been endlessly gamed, suppressed and denied.”
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Columbus Day Represents Worst of America’s True Legacy
[Columbus Day and America’s True Legacy]
PeaceVoice\Koehler: “By officially ignoring the worst of our true legacy, by pretending that “liberty and justice for all” and other platitudes are the bedrock of the nation, we create a world where such values have no chance to actually prevail.”
Photo: YouTube
Trump’s America the Terrible: What Comes Next is Up to Us
[America the Terrible]
Peace Voice\Koehler: “I know this much. It’s too late to put the cork back in the bottle. What we’re heading toward is a new world, and we’re the ones about to create it.”
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The coming chaos created by Trumpism & white supremacy
[2020 Election]
PeaceVoice\Koehler: “But with or without the Supreme Court under its control, Team Trump will likely do whatever it can to hold onto the presidency. Rouse as many supporters as possible, glorify the Second Amendment, remind them of their genetic superiority — set the stage for civil war.”
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Louisiana’s “cancer alley” plagued by environmental racism battle “sunshine project”
[Louisiana’s “Cancer Valley”]
PeaceVoice\Robert Koehler: “The project would double the amount of toxic air emissions in St. James Parish and more than triple the levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the region.”
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American Populism Must Stand Up to Militarism, Trump—and Biden
[American Militarism\ Trump\Biden]
PeaceVoice\Koehler: “Only direct democracy has the will to stand up for the victims of these wars — the millions and millions of displaced — and demand that the wars stop, no matter who is president.”
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Ending the Civil War That never Ended in 1865
[Civil War]
Koehler: “This is half a civil war. Some of the participants are police and some are vigilantes. They are armed and desperate for enemies. To the extent the protests stay peaceful, they lose.”
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Democratic National Convention Silent on Issues of War and Peace
[Democratic National Convention}
Koehler: “There are progressive, antiwar Democrats out there…but the party itself still stands firmly in the middle of nowhere, fully in favor of empathy and compassion and yet, somehow, fully supportive of the endless wars.”
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