Articles by Robert Koehler
We Are All Indigenous
Robert Koehler · “All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand something only if we can understand how it is connected...
Partners in Terror
Robert Koehler · “Je suis Charlie. Tout est pardonné.” Muhammad in tears adorns the new cover of Charlie Hebdo: “I am Charlie. All is forgiven.” This is bigger than satire. I take a deep breath, uncertain how to write about last week’s insane...
Prosecuting High-Level Officials Isn't Enough: It's Time We Abolish the CIA
Robert Koehler · The shock resonating from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report isn’t due so much to the revelations themselves, grotesque as the details are, but to the fact that they’re now officially public. National spokespersons...
Ferguson and the "Us Vs. Them" Illusion
Robert Koehler · As the grand jury’s decision on whether nor not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson loomed, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told a TV reporter “he’s preparing for peace and war.”
The Cancer of Violent Extremism
Robert Koehler · “As we look to the future, one issue risks a cycle of conflict that could derail so much progress. And that is the cancer of violent extremism that has ravaged so many parts of the Muslim world.” The cancer of violent extremism . ...
Our Kills are Clean and Secular; Theirs are Messy and Religious.
Robert Koehler · Our kills are clean and secular; theirs are messy and religious. “In their effort to create a caliphate across parts of Iraq and Syria,” CNN tells us, “ISIS fighters have slaughtered civilians as they take over cities in both...
How Unarmed Peace Efforts Can Save Lives and Diffuse Conflict Even in War Zones
Robert Koehler · "I think if we had a gun we would have been shot immediately.”