Michael Nagler

Michael Nagler founded the Metta Center for Nonviolence and is the author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future.

Passivity or Violence: Is That the Only Choice?

Between Libya, which has endured more than 2,000 NATO bombings, and Syria, where more than 2,000 civilians have been killed by their own government so far, we see the …

By: Michael Nagler ,; WagingNonviolence

September 8, 2011

Op-Ed

Economic Crisis or Nonviolent Opportunity? Gandhi’s Answer to Financial Collapse

(Photo: Pranav Yaddanapudi / Flickr) On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average fell 634.76 points; the sixth-worst point decline for the Dow in the last 112 years …

By: Michael Nagler ,; WagingNonviolence

August 11, 2011

Op-Ed

Three Ways of Looking at a Terrorist

Please read these words of an American woman living in Norway: "Our public officials have asked us to put compassion first, to nurture each other, …

By: Michael Nagler ,; MettaCenterForNonviolence

August 1, 2011

Op-Ed

Ten Questions the Media Are Not Asking About Norway

The law enforcement entities dealing with the appalling massacre in and around Oslo last Friday have been understandably preoccupied with the question, did the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, act …

By: Stephanie N Van Hook &; Michael Nagler ,; MettaCenterforNonviolence

July 27, 2011

Op-Ed

Breaking the Chain of Command

(Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Senior Chief Kevin Elliott / US Navy) When is a whistleblower not a whistleblower? When he's a scapegoat. Pfc. Bradley Manning is an …

By: Michael Nagler ,; Truthout

April 17, 2011

How to Replace the War System

About the murderous rampage of US soldiers from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, who killed and dismembered Afghani civilians evidently “for sport,” the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported on …

By: Michael N. Nagler &; Michael Nagler ,; Truthout

October 4, 2010

Michael N. Nagler | Remembering Our Humanity

Remember our humanity, and forget all the rest. - Einstein

By: Michael N. Nagler &; Michael Nagler ,; Truthout

February 1, 2010

Afghanistan: What Would a Real Policy Look Like?

At a Washington meeting some years back, Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia said to a group of us who had come to discuss Mideast policy, "All foreign policy is …

By: Michael N. Nagler &; Michael Nagler ,; Truthout

December 28, 2009

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