A Project of The World Can't Wait
By Nick Mottern, Fred Bialy and Toby Blomé
Alamogordo, NM – Holloman (Drone Training) AFB – Anti-drone activists from across the U.S. shut down the West Gate entrance here at Holloman AFB early this morning – with one arrest – for nearly an hour in the third annual “week of resistance” to the covert U.S. Drone Warfare Program.
By Brett Wilkins
From Common Dreams | Original Article
One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.
By Kathy Kelly
From World Beyond War | Original Article
Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” Their largest banner proclaims: “Yemen is Starving.” Other signs say: “Put a human face on war in Yemen,” and “Let Yemen Live.”
By Ann Wright
From Counterpunch | Original Article
22 years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the US Department of State. I was the Deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia and the third U.S. government employee to resign in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. I resigned on the day the Bush administration began the 10-year U.S. war on Iraq, March 19, 2003.
By David Swanson
From War Is a Crime | Original Article
According to Columbia Magazine, published by Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development, but ultimately named for a brutal imperialist mercenary, in 1933 while Nazis in Germany were burning books by Jews, Columbia’s president — and future Nobel Peace Prize recipient — Nicholas Murray Butler “welcomed Hans Luther, the German ambassador to the United States, to Morningside Heights, insisting that he be accorded ‘the greatest courtesy and respect.’” Columbia’s Daily Spectator newspaper “denounced what it saw as Butler’s courtship of the German government and its universities.”
Report on January 23 Action:
NO to HOSPITALCIDE, NO to GENOCIDE, NO ARMS to ISRAEL!
From Democracy Now | Original Article
Eleven Yemeni men imprisoned without charge or trial at the Guantánamo Bay detention center for more than two decades have just been released to Oman to restart their lives. This latest transfer brings the total number of men detained at Guantánamo down to 15. Civil rights lawyers Ramzi Kassem and Pardiss Kebriaei, who have each represented many Guantánamo detainees, including some of the men just released, say closing the notorious detention center “has always been a question of political will,” and that the Biden administration must take action to free the remaining prisoners and “end of the system of indefinite detention” as soon as possible.
‘ By Columbia University Researchers Against War From Columbia Spectator | Original Article More than any other actor, the U.S. military now sets the terms of the university research landscape. In 2023,…
‘ From Democracy Now | Original Article We speak with the celebrated Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
From Democracy Now | Original Article
A federal jury in Virginia has ordered the U.S. military contractor CACI Premier Technology to pay a total of $42 million to three Iraqi men who were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. The landmark verdict comes after 16 years of litigation and marks the first time a civilian contractor has been found legally responsible for the gruesome abuses at Abu Ghraib. We discuss the case and its significance for human rights with Baher Azmy, the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented the Abu Ghraib survivors. “This lawsuit has been about justice and accountability for three Iraqi men — our clients, Salah, Suhail and Asa’ad — who exhibited just awe-inspiring courage and resilience,” he says.
‘ By Spencer Ackerman From Zeteo | Original Article During the last Trump presidency, the same people – then former Obama officials – suggested they had learned their lesson from Yemen. In…
‘ By Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins From The Costs of War Project | Original Article This report covers the human costs of the Hamas strike and Israel’s military operations since October 7, 2023 in…
‘ From The Costs of War Project | Original Article This report covers the major economic costs of U.S. support for Israel’s military operations and U.S. regional presence since October 7, 2023….
‘ By Brett Murphy From ProPublica | Original Article In late January, as the death toll in Gaza climbed to 25,000 and droves of Palestinians fled their razed cities in search of…