Articles by Vern Loomis
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There’s Something in the Kool-Aid
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – “Drinking the Kool-Aid,” is a now familiar and oft-used phrase to describe the naïve obedience to the will of another at the expense of one’s own well-being. Its current context stems from the 1978 “Jonestown Massacre.”
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War Begets Retribution Begets War
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Using its dwindling resources (and human lives) to violently redraw national borders or spheres of influence is a zero-sum game. Modern warfare increasingly renders large swaths of the planet uninhabitable, destroying the only home we have.
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Defending a Democracy Is Not the Same as Imposing One
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
If it’s true, as Applebaum suggested, that North Americans are “less willing to die in order to inflict violence, cruelty, and terror on other people,” it somehow didn’t stop several administrations from offering up the lives of US military men and women abroad simply to forestall political unpleasantness at home.
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Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” Oscar Wilde’s wry observation highlights an obvious truth: age alone does not confer wisdom or any other desirable trait. The powerful and elderly decision-makers of the world demonstrate the disconnect between age and wisdom with every war.
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