The pirates are definitely winning the battle of the seas. Pirate attacks continue. The piracy trade continues to flourish. Piracy is a crime. Criminality has its root cause in other socioeconomic conditions. Pirates are the same thieves, kidnappers, hijackers, and marauders. Only, their crime scene happens to be the sea. This is the reason why [...]

“Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.” (Barbara Deming, Non-Violence Theorist and Women’s Rights Proponent)
The fight for land has always been raging. Avenging some other people’s incursion into one’s own land becomes a grand [...]

In the poem “At the Un-national Monument along the Canadian Border,” poet William Stafford describes a place that is so neglected that it is insignificant. Nothing monumental has ever occurred in the place because it has not seen anything drastic or tragic. It has never merited any attention. The place mentioned in this poem is [...]