An Invitation To Join Mike Magee in Syracuse, This Thursday 11/13/14.

Veterans Day Invitation from Mike Magee This Thursday, November 13, after 45 years, I will be returning to Syracuse. The trip is in response to an invitation from my Jesuit Alma mater, LeMoyne College. I spent four snowy years there, in the shadow of Vietnam and the Berrigan Brothers, from 1965 to 1969. I added four […]

The Demilitarization of Homeland America: Lessons From Ferguson and WWII

DDT spaying beach area, 1950’s Mike Magee In tracking the events in Ferguson, Missouri, last week, I was reminded of the words of environmentalist, Edwin Way Teale, some 70 years ago, as WWII was drawing to a close. That war, and arguably the Allied success, was the result of our ability to mobilize and redirect […]

Fort Hood: Abnormal Minds in Normal Times, or Normal Minds in Abnormal Times

Mike Magee When Spc. Ivan Lopez, a soldier at Fort Hood, Texas opened fire on his fellow soldiers, killing three this week, he once again focused a light on the chronic, lasting and largely hidden burden of war – mental illness in soldiers who serve our country. But what escaped notice in the broad coverage […]