Michael Butler
Poet Michael Butler is preparing a new collection of works, The Ismist Manifesto, due in early 2007 from FootHills Publishing, Avoca, New York.
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Articles by Michael Butler
January 25, 2007
Some of the work of Rabbi Michael Lerner crossed my desk this week. Lerner is the editor of Tikkun Magazine, and national chair of an interfaith movement called the Network of Spiritual Progressives. Together with other clergy, he is preparing to launch an ad campaign headlined,
"Religious Leade...
December 23, 2006
It is time for a National Spotlight on the Media.
I don't mean a candlelight vigil. This is not about mourning; not about keeping hope alive; not about lifting a lone flame, not even in prayerful numbers, against the oppressive wall of darkness.
This is about turning on floodlights, shining a...
December 14, 2006
12 December 2006, Buffalo, New York. Listening to the reaction last week from pundits, press and politicians to the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group report, you would think the judgment of history had now been rendered upon the United States' invasion of Iraq. All around the world, commenta...
December 01, 2006
Now that the 2006 Midterm Elections have delivered their verdict, a faint sliver of light appears at the end of the tunnel: a distant hope that the American ship of state will right itself, and the tensional integrity of Democrat-Republican collaboration will define a course that avoids the shoals o...
October 03, 2006
The events of September 11, 2001 were a dagger in the heart of American optimism, and a body blow to the United States Constitution — a shock from which the republic is still reeling, that may yet engrave the defeat of the American democratic experiment.
To defend our country, to defend our value...
September 13, 2006
The events of September 11, 2001 were a dagger in the heart of American optimism, and a body blow to the United States Constitution — a shock from which the republic is still reeling, and may yet engrave the defeat of the American democratic experiment.
It is time to drop the rhetoric of the "War...
August 15, 2006
As the dust settles and the smoke clears in Lebanon, Israel enters a time of introspection and some recriminations. Israelis widely believe that the stated aims of their military operation are unfulfilled; and with the sense of isolation experienced as a nation under siege, they blame themselves fo...
August 12, 2006
As a campaign representative for Ralph Nader in the Presidential Election of 2004, I spoke openly and harshly against the policies and the proposals of both George Bush and John Kerry.
During the final five weeks before Election Day, I was on the road through Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota...
October 10, 2005
Cindy Sheehan gets attention.
The mainstream American media was hardly covering the Peace Movement at all, before Cindy Sheehan came along. The voices of literally millions around the world who had spoken out in opposition to the war had been marginalized and discredited. A majority of the Ameri...
October 10, 2005
The most credible case to come along in many years for a non-major-party candidacy in a U.S. Senate election is standing right now in Maryland, "The Free State."
Kevin Zeese, the outspoken Director of the campaign at DemocracyRising.US for a responsible end to the American occupation in I...