Staff & Contributors

What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?

Gary G. Kohls, MD

“What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?” was the title of a wonderful book written by Sabine Reichel. Reichel was born in devastated Hamburg in 1946 to Nazi-collaborator parents who were respected in their post-war community but had never talked to her about what they had done during the war years. The truth only came out during Reichel’s young adult years.

Then They Came for the Children An Analysis of the Official Cover-up of the Unwelcome Truths About the Canadian Genocide of Aboriginal Children

Gary G. Kohls, MD

By Guest Columnist Bill Annett From a recent edition of “The Canadian Shield” (Volume 3, Issue 3, titled “The Truth That Failed”) We’ve just spent half a day (perhaps too much) reading a 115-page tome, neither scholarly nor journalistic mais tous les deux, titled “They Came For The Children.” It’s the interim report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that icon and crowning triumph of the conservative Stephen Harper’s Canadian majority government.

De-Mystifying Drug Addiction

Gary G. Kohls, MD

People who are addicted to nicotine, alcohol, street drugs, or psych drugs, or simply have addictive potential, may be lacking certain nutrients that the brain requires to manufacture the natural brain chemicals that are called neurotransmitters. The major neurotransmitters that affe

America’s Mental Illness Disability and Dementia Epidemic: It Turns Out That the Drugs Are the Problem

Gary G. Kohls, MD

Since the introduction of major tranquilizers like Thorazine and Haldol, “minor” tranquilizers like Miltown, Librium and Valium, and the dozens of so-called antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, tens of millions of unsuspecting Americans have become mired deeply, to the point of permanent disability, in the American mental “health” system. Many of these innocents have actually been made “crazy” and often disabled by the use of—or the withdrawal from—these commonly prescribed, brain-altering, and, for many, brain-damaging psychiatric drugs that hav

Many Psychoactive Drugs are Strongly Associated with Violence (including aggression, suicidal violence and homicidal violence)

Gary G. Kohls, MD

A recent study published in the Public Library of Science online journal (PloS One @ www.plosone.org) by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP @ www.ismp.org) listed the top 31 prescription drugs that can cause violent or aggressive behavior in those consuming them.

A Response to the March 15 letter to the Reader entitled “Taking Gary Kohls to Task”

Gary G. Kohls, MD

I welcomed the challenges in last week’s Reader letter from Doctors D’Allaird, Doane, Duus, Heck, Jagim and Saracino to my occasional Duty to Warn columns that have mentioned unwelcome information about the dangers of the seriously over-prescribed and proven to be neurotoxic synthetic chemicals known as psychotropic drugs. Most of the Duty to Warn columns also contained information abou

It’s Déjà vu all Over Again: The Balandi, Afghanistan Massacre and the Lessons Unlearned from MyLai

Gary G. Kohls, MD

Well, this is the anniversary week of the infamous MyLai Massacre, March 16, 1968. 1968 was the year that “everything happened.” Here is a short list of significant events...

Racism is Alive and Well in America and in the Northland, But So Are Militarism and Economic Oppression (per MLK)

Gary G. Kohls, MD

Progressive Northland residents were shocked this week by the negative internet comments (received from people all across the nation, including locally) that were directed against the worthy Unfair Campaign (www.unfaircampaign.org) that was launched last week by a coalition of progressive organizations as another attempt to address white racism.

Another Day, Another Celebrity Suicide, Another School Shooting

Gary G. Kohls, MD

Congratulations America. In recent months you have managed to claim a few more celebrities to suicide and/or homicide. And there is no sign that the trend is subsiding. Not only are celebrities at continued risk, but you have claimed hundreds...

Another Prophetic Voice for Truth and Justice

Gary G. Kohls, MD

By: Iris DeMent

Racism is Alive and Well in America and in the Northland, But So Are Militarism and Economic Oppression (per MLK)

Gary G. Kohls, MD

Progressive Northland residents were shocked this week by the negative internet comments (received from people all across the nation, including locally) that were directed against the worthy Unfair Campaign ...

Whatever Happened to the Original Form of Christianity?

Gary G. Kohls, MD

From time to time I read about condemnations of religion coming from non-religious groups, especially concerning the all-too-common violence perpetrated in the name of their gods. Indeed there is plenty to condemn.

The 1% Seem to be Following Hitler’s Fascist Playbook - and Most of the Rest of Us Haven’t Noticed

Gary G. Kohls, MD

Excerpts by Gary G. Kohls, MD from Milton Mayer’s “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45”

The Story of the Christmas Truce of 1914:

Gary G. Kohls, MD

In which Christian soldiers on both sides of No Man’s Land recognize their common humanity and drop their guns

The Great Christian Task of our Time:

Gary G. Kohls, MD

Prophetic Voices From Christian History Speak

An Open Letter from the not-so-Great Britain Regarding Occupy London

Gary G. Kohls, MD

Today I received the most recent in a series of letters from a London correspondent of mine, attorney Paul Warburton. Over the past few years, Paul has been relentlessly pestering, in a series of very articulate letters, the powers-that-be ...