Essays

Essays & Letters
by Jim Correale

A Resolution for
the Secession of
New England

Some thoughts on
US foreign policy
Links to letters that I wrote to friends regarding the behavior of the US government since 9/11.

"A truly liberal media would be asking why the US military is in Iraq"

Home

"The war is a bad idea"

"Disturbing chronology of imperialism"

"Those who do not support war
are people who care about soldiers"

"I want America to help the downtrodden of the world. I just don't think sending in tanks and bombs is the way to do it."

"How do we begin to dismantle the grip these thoughtless and careless muttonheads have on the levers of power and on public opinion?"

Toast delivered at Dom and Cheryl's wedding

"There is this dangerous and parochial belief that 'America is the greatest country on earth.' What does that mean?"

Random pieces

"Do we, as a nation, understand that we have chosen to force mothers to wait tables or clean motel rooms while others care for their children?"

"Human beings are only one strand in
the web of life and have an obligation to act with the best
interests of the web in mind."

"Realpolitik is the capitalism of international affairs. It is each looking out for their own interests � invariably economic � without regard for principles, without regard for the effects of such actions on millions, even billions, of people. The world is not a game of Risk."

The Homestead Manifesto
A discussion of my loss of faith in
the institutions of western civilization and the changes in my life that I
hope to undertake as a result

Why Christians should have voted blue
An opinion piece that I recently had published in the Portland Press Herald

A film review that has recently been published on the Wolf Moon Press Journal web site