Watching our mainstream media about Ukraine helps us to forget. Some sixty years later, nuclear weapons have been developed that can flatten and poison our world 100 times over.

Brave soldiers stopped the war in Vietnam. They sacrificed their future careers, their reputations, even sometimes their families to throw a wrench in the war machine. I see them as the heroes of the Vietnam war.

NPR and the corporate media talk endlessly about Russian war crimes in Ukraine. And yet, the US has committed war crimes in Palestine for over seventy years.

Are the weapons makers really calling the shots, even today with Ukraine? Our corporations are overflowing with money, and our politicians are the most venal they have ever been. Is it time to stop worrying and love the bomb?

A mothers day that preached peace would have been the last thing that our country could have ever lived up to. With military bases around the world and half our national treasure spent on weapons each year, there is simply no place to celebrate peace.

The response from the United States has always been the same. For the ideals of Central American revolutions have always been a danger to the U.S., a country that gives the fruits of labor to the very richest of its capitalists.

Thirty years later, Israel is at the bottom of a self made abyss. Maybe a two state was possible back then, but hundreds of Jewish settlements and roads have carved up what was to be the Palestinian state. Moreover, Israel has demolished thousands of homes and moved 75,000 more Jews into the occupied West Bank. Now there are no two states to be had.

We live in an era when nobody really talks about nuclear war and what it might do to the earth we live on. There are no projections of damage available. There are no maps, nor any plans for escaping to safer areas. We don't even know if there would be safe areas, besides the nuclear bomb proof structures built for governmental and Pentagon officials.

Over several hundred years, the Powhatans suffered what we would now call a slow moving genocide. They lost their lands, their language and even their ethnicity.

Those who have suffered never forget the violence and the hatreds that go along with occupation. The Irish, especially those living in what is left of the Ulster Plantation, recognize that their suffering is universal.