The Consequences of Unconditional Obedience to Authority - Rudolf Hoess, the Commandant of Auschwitz

Fri. Apr. 26th, 2013  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

This month (April) is Holocaust Remembrance month, an annual month-long event that encourages us humans to again confront the sobering reality of one of history’s most egregious examples of man’s inhumanity to man, known in th

J’accuse: The War Criminal Rudolf Hoess Speaks to History’s Militarists, Including the CIA’s “Drone Warriors”

Fri. May. 3rd, 2013  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

The Duluth Reader ran out of space for an optional ending of last week’s Duty to Warn column. My preferred ending was the powerful Thomas Merton prose poem that gave voice to the infamous i

Unpredictable drama big part of Wild playoff magic

Fri. May. 10th, 2013  |  John Gilbert

The drama of the Minnesota Wild facing the best team in the NHL in the Chicago Blackhawks has been punctured by some of the most unkind and unfair fluke injuries imaginable. The eighth-seeded Wild needed everything they had to

“Sniper”: Lessons From Harry Chapin’s Classic School Shooter Song - Brain-altering Psych Drugs as a Tipping Point to Overt Acts of Violence

Thu. May. 16th, 2013  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

I have been involved in the mental ill health industry in various ways since the early 1990s. In the last decade of my medical career, I was an independent holistic mental health care practitioner. I found myself frequently feeling obligated to function as a whistle-blower, exposing a psychopharmaceutical drug

Nuclear War Careers Don’t Get Any Respect

Fri. May. 24th, 2013

Some of the Air Force’s self-styled nuclear “missileers” — sitting at launch controls in Minot, North Dakota — recently earned a “D” on their intercontinental ballistic missile firing (ICBM) skills. Over 10 percent of the Minot Air Force Base’s 91st “Missile Wing” was declared incompetent and was stripped of launch-dut

This is summer?

Fri. May. 31st, 2013  |  Harry Drabik

OK, it’s actually not the first time I enjoyed the start of summer wearing a heavy coat to ward off the chill, but I think it is the first time I wore a parka to stand at the barbecue and worried

You’re dumb! Buy me, idiot!

Fri. May. 31st, 2013

Xbox One: Hey asshole, buy me! Paul:< Excuse me? Xbox One: I’m a video game console. I’m friggin’ great! Buy me, shitbag! Paul: Why do y

A Veteran’s Suicide Note to His Family (and to the rest of us) “I am Sorry That it Has Come to This”

Fri. Jul. 5th, 2013  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

On this Fourth of July, 2013, amidst the celebrations of our mythical “American Exceptionalism” (despite being far down the list [and sinking fast] of “civilized” nations in scores of categories, the main

Edward Snowden and When Seeing Something and Then Saying Something Becomes Treason

Fri. Jul. 19th, 2013  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

Edward Snowden is another one of the several high profile altruistic whistleblowers that meets my definition of what a true patriot really is...

Duty to Warn

Mon. Aug. 12th, 2013  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Un-Censored Version