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Tommy Schmitz is a writer in Des Moines, Iowa. He Grew up in Cincinnati's west side, spent nine years in the corporate world, then seventeen years running his own consultancy, mostly to automobile machinery makers in Japan, China and the US. He lived in Tokyo from 1992 to 1999. Besides serving auto industry clients (Toyota, Honda, Denso, Robert Bosch, Mitsubishi) he was the first non-Japanese accepted by the government as a paid advisor to Japanese small and medium sized companies. (Chushokigyochou, Division of JETRO and MITI).
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Counterinsurgency guru David Kilcullen has told Congress that US drone strikes in Pakistan are backfiring and should be stopped.
He said, “Since 2006, we’ve killed 14 senior …
Dear Mr. President,
Welcome back. My apologies for delaying the third part of this letter.
The challenges for me in thinking it through and writing it down have been twofold… beginning with the need to …
Dear President Obama,
This is the second part of my open letter to you. We were, I believe, discussing Afghanistan and Pakistan and moving into our key topic: Scapegoating.
Scapegoating is not rocket science. …
Dear President Obama,
I am writing to you in three brief installments as an American and as one who also loves his country.
And I write from Des Moines, Iowa, a place that you know …
Chapter 26 – Space and time and what’s still missing.
Kenji sat on the curb on Sunday afternoon about two miles from Shinjuku Station on a narrow village back street crowded with village houses of both …
Chapter 23 – The roots of terrorism, part 1.
“I am from East Timor…” ‘A’ continued her story… “or Timor Leste as we say in Portuguese, a free nation since May of 2002, saved from 27 …
Chapter 20 – Meet ups and meet downs.
Kenji slipped out the window while now and elsewhere upon the earth – three and one half hours behind on Kenji’s watch – the boy named Jack O’Brien …
Chapter 17 – Things unthinkable and carpe diem.
Mieko and Henry O’Brien, hoods returned to their heads, continued in kneeling positions after the broadcast.
“Well done.” she said. Whoever she was, known only by the name of …
———- Forwarded message ——–
From: Bill Quigley
Date: Sun, Jan 18, 2009
“Respite in Gaza,” by Kathy Kelly.
Kathy Kelly and Audrey Stewart have been inside Gaza for the last
several days. Kathy is with Voices for Creative Nonviolence
www.vcnv.org )
January …
This is a disturbing report and I hesitate to post it. However, the report comes from Audrey Stewart and Kathy Kelly, by way of Bill Quigley. All are well known peace activists in …
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