Articles by Kristin Y. Christman

We found 8 results.

Mother’s Day
Kristin Y. Christman - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

In Honor of International Women’s Day, 8 Mar 2023

→ read full article

Russia, Ukraine, and the USA: Trapped in a Cultural Script
Kristin Y. Christman - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

16 Apr 2022 – Compassion for Ukrainians victimized by Russia’s violence demonstrates that human hearts care. However, beneath the visible current of compassion there’s an alarming, dangerous dynamic at play.

→ read full article

Exceptionally Insulated: Americans’ Unconcern Enables Wrongdoing Abroad
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2019

If you were Iranian and learned that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton wanted to attack your country, wouldn’t you feel terrified? But we’re taught to dismiss that. The training begins early: Complete the assignment. Get good grades. Insulate your life. Automate your soul. Don’t worry about U.S. bombs pulverizing Baghdad or U.S.-funded death squads mutilating peasants in Latin America.

→ read full article

Rethink Weapons Exports
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Apr 2018

2 Apr 2018 – Like every organ in the body, the arms industry is valuable, but when its compulsive mission of self-aggrandizement displaces the body’s mission, deprives other organs of nutrients, and poisons the body, it’s time for surgery and healing.

→ read full article

It Wasn’t the Threat That Worked, It Was Reduction of Fear
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2017

U.S. policymakers don’t trust North Korea. But on what basis can North Korea trust the U.S.? What agreement with North Korea has the U.S. ever not violated? … Whichever agreement is under discussion, the same behavior is seen: the U.S. never sees its own violations as wrong.

→ read full article

Take Torture off Agenda
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2017

If we created a U.S. Department of Peace whose mission was to non-violently address roots of violence, such a mission would gear American ingenuity and enthusiasm toward the bigger picture of conflict resolution and friendship rather than toward desperate conclusions that security requires cruelty toward enemies.

→ read full article

U.S. and Russia Must Repel Greed, Fear
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2017

Currently, alleged Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s underhandedness is accused of marring U.S. democracy, yet while this receives indignant attention, the hypocrisy is hard to stomach, for Americans have corrupted democracy at home and abroad far more than any Russian hacker. Like Rockefeller, the U.S. sees dishonesty only in its rivals.

→ read full article

Make Serving in War an Option Not an Order
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 May 2016

Government has absolutely no right to demand that our sons register and prepare for blood sacrifice today. No one has the right to such power over another being. So let’s move beyond blood sacrifice and make the practical sacrifices that truly resolve conflict.

→ read full article