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Author: John Kaufman

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Becomes International Law

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Today most of the world is celebrating a new international treaty, now in force, that bans all nuclear […]

January 22, 2021 Foreign Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Peace

President Biden Finds a Note in the Oval Office: Satirical Poem

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To Cheater Joe, I guess I’ll go. But I didn’t lose! (I hid all the booze.) I wasn’t […]

January 20, 2021 Poetry, Satires

As Trump Departs, Lessons from the MAGA Madness

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Not long after America chose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton way back in November of 2016, Trump and […]

January 19, 2021 Politics, Uncategorized, Wisconsin

The Pacific Blog Returns! Long Live The Pacific!

It’s a new year and, starting tomorrow, the United States will have a new (and actually effective) president […]

January 19, 2021 Uncategorized

Defending the Letter “On Justice and Open Debate” in Harper’s Magazine

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On July 7th, Harper’s Magazine published a letter on its website that was signed by more than a […]

July 12, 2020 Uncategorized

Dear Democrats: A Letter for Peace in the Middle East

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If the Democratic Party and its presidential nominee, Joe Biden, have a weak spot, it is their general […]

June 23, 2020 Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Militarism, Pro-Peace

Trump to President Xi: Satirical Poem

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“Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the constitutional rules to serve more than […]

June 22, 2020 Poetry, Political Ditties, Satires

Protest Shakes the Poetry Foundation

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In standing against injustice, we must use language carefully and fairly, lest we find ourselves speaking and acting unjustly.

June 17, 2020 Poetry

In Defense of Speaking the Liberal We

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Here at The Pacific, we (speaking figuratively, for I am but one writer) want to make a statement […]

June 11, 2020 Journalism

No More Nuclear Weapons Testing!

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Being the only nation that has actually used a nuclear weapon and the world’s largest democracy. . . the U.S., it seems to me, should be the first of the “nuclear club” nations to sign the TPNW and destroy its nuclear weapons.

June 1, 2020 Nuclear Weapons

A Patriot : a political poem

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“Since that 2016 gaffe
I’ve flown a flag always half-staff…”

May 27, 2020 Political Ditties

Gnostic Nonsense: The New Homophobia

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It was a shock for me to learn, right off the bat, that America is now in a “post-Christian” age, what with all the Christians in the country and talk of Christianity still going on, on Twitter and off.

May 22, 2020 Human Rights, LBGT

Defend Liberty? Tell the Saudis (and Trump) to Release Women’s Rights Activists

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There is, fortunately, a much better way for defenders of democracy and freedom fighters everywhere to make their liberty-loving presence known: tell the Saudi government to release all the women’s rights activists it has imprisoned on trumped-up charges.

May 19, 2020 feminism, Human Rights

Higher Education: Time to Disrupt the Digital Disruptors

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Unfortunately, we in the United States have allowed our system of higher education to be infiltrated by the demands of economic priority to a remarkable degree.

May 13, 2020 Education, Uncategorized

Clean Water Victory: Supreme Court Rules Against Hawaii Polluter and Trump Administration

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But why is it “bizarre” to take into consideration how groundwater moves over time? What’s bizarre is to allow any pollution of our groundwater at all by a big, industrial source.

April 23, 2020 Nature, oceans

Seven Cases of Coronavirus Likely Due to Wisconsin Primary Voting

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As of this moment there has been no response, no few words of contrition, from the Wisconsin GOP regarding those voters sickened during the in-person voting in Milwaukee

April 21, 2020 Politics, Wisconsin

Three Satirists Walk into a Daily White House Press Briefing

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“Thank you all for coming, like dogs, again today. And thanks for agreeing to purchase and wear my latest campaign hat with the slogan, “Making Media Grovel Again.”

April 14, 2020 Satires

Bernie is Out, So Biden is In, And Bernie Endorsed Biden, So Bernie is, like, SO OUT!

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From what I’ve viewed on Twitter, maturity and nuance regarding Biden (and even the former hero, Sanders) from the fingers of disgruntled progressives is scarce.

April 14, 2020 Politics

They’re Having Problems Down in Florida: Satirical Poem

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They’re having problems down in Florida.
They gettin’ corona blues from the New Yorkas.

March 29, 2020 Poetry, Political Ditties, Satires

Coronavirus: Must we do nothing or be lockeddown? Some say there is a middle way…

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How best to put an end to the Covid-19 pandemic? At the moment, after an irresponsibly late start, […]

March 22, 2020 health care

Limerick: To Pray in the Pub

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There was an old man named O’Pious

March 19, 2020 Poetry, Satires

Life in a Time of Covid-19: Local, Private Joys and Separate Politics

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We are now in a time of public collapse, known as “social distancing.” Perhaps anti-social distancing is a […]

March 13, 2020 Essays, Meditations

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