Category Archives: peace

Oct. 7 2024 – A Year Later

October 7, 2024 – 9:57 am

1900 Palestine was a province of the Ottoman Empire. The Arab armies liberated the Middle East with the British Army, but the provinces were divided by two English Arab experts. Straight lines drawn in the deserts. Peace ruled the lands, but the West had plans for the Levant. 1937 Nakba when the British defeated the […]

By Peter | Also posted in Middle East | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Pre-Yom Kippur 2024

October 2, 2024 – 10:43 pm

I am not Jewish, despite having been circumcised at birth at Boston Lying-In. The doctors were Yankees. My birth certificate even denotes my having been mutilated in accordance with the Anglo-Saxon upper class beleiving that boys masturbated less without a foreskin. Idiots. We were told that this barbaric custom was for hygiene. Poof! Religious fanatics […]

By Peter | Also posted in holiday, War | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Ryōkan Taigu DEWDROPS ON A LOTUS BLOSSOM

August 18, 2024 – 7:26 pm

Returning to my native village after many years’ absence: Ill, I put up at a country inn and listen to the rain. One robe, one bowl is all I have. I light incense and strain to sit in meditation; All night a steady drizzle outside the dark window— Inside, poignant memories of these long years […]

By Peter | Also posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Duch Choi Cha’ kai Anh

April 11, 2024 – 6:29 am

Written on Jun 11, 2017 In 1975 the Khmer Rouge converted the Tuol Svay Prey High School on the outskirts of Phnom Penh into the murderous Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison. An estimated 17,000 prisoners had been subjected to the following code of behavior enforced by its administrator Comrade Duch or Kang Kek Iew and […]

By Peter | Also posted in 60s, 70s, cambodia, Crime, War | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Fall of Berlin Wall 1989 – 2009

March 22, 2024 – 8:37 am

“Ich bin en Berliner.” These words were spoken by JFK before the grim barrier in 1961. I have stood at the wall in 1982. Its shabby concrete was graffiti-splattered on the Western side. The other side was a no-man’s land of mines, dogs, and guard towers. I had crossed over to East Berlin via Checkpoint […]

By Peter | Also posted in politics | Tagged , | Comments (0)