Nebraskans for Peace Updates

by Paul A. Olson “[W]e will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” — Martin Luther King The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Up to World War II: To begin with our search for peace, nineteenth century Nebraska had significant settlements of Quakers, Mennonites, and the various Brethren churches whose whole tradition was that of a culture of peace. The 1890s-1900s Populist Party, which elected a number of officials

What's HOT in Global Warming Series by Professor Bruce E. Johansen Artificial Intelligence (A-I), through stocks such has Nvidia has become the hottest ticket to heaven, when it’s not the road to hell in the S&P 500. What other stock could lose $600 billion worth of paper value in one day, and then make it back? At a White House dinner in September, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta would spend $600 billion on data centers and related infrastructure. Either way, at the ra

Roots of Justice: A History of Race and Racism in Nebraska Excerpt from A History of Native People in Nebraska, Part I, by Gabriel Bruguier From 1990 to 2003, my father, [Leonard Bruguier], was the Director of the Institute of American Indian Studies at the University of South Dakota (USD). His journey there had taken him from the village of Greenwood on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, to the city of Yankton, South Dakota, where he excelled academically and athletically in hig

Because the System Isn't Broken Series by Schmeeka Simpson When I say OG, I mean Original Gangsters—the ones who laid the blueprint, not the ones who inherited it. And when I say Robber Baron, I’m not talking about Rockefeller or Carnegie or J.P. Morgan. I’m talking about the Founding Fathers. A Robber Baron is someone who builds wealth by exploiting land, labor, and law while writing rules to protect their dominance. Before Rockefeller, Carnegie, or J.P. Morgan, there were: