By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article The News A United Nations human rights panel has issued a damning report that blames the United States and seven other…
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5/31/23 Pentagon is blocking U.S. cooperation with international investigations of war crimes in Ukraine
By Dan De Luce and Abigail Williams From NBC News | Original Article The U.S. military has been wary of cooperating with the Hague court because of concerns it might try to…
5/25/23 Henry Kissinger’s Documented Legacy
From National Security Archive | Original Article Henry Kissinger, 1975 (Wikimedia Commons) A Declassified Dossier on HAK’s Controversial Historical Legacy, on His 100th Birthday Archive Posts Revealing Records of Kissinger’s Role in…
5/24/23 Kissinger at 100: New War Crimes Revealed in Secret Cambodia Bombing That Set Stage for Forever Wars
From Democracy Now | Original Article A bombshell new investigation from The Intercept reveals that former U.S. national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was responsible for even more civilian…
5/24/23 Jeffrey Sachs: Bipartisan Support of War, from Iraq to Ukraine, Is Helping Fuel U.S. Debt Crisis
From Democracy Now | Original Article The United States faces a default on its debt in early June if a deal on the debt ceiling is not reached between the Biden administration…
5/1823 From Waterboarding to Rape, Abu Zubaydah Depicts Torture at Black Sites & Gitmo in Graphic Sketches
From Democracy Now | Original Article The Center for Policy and Research has just published a new report titled “American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantánamo,” which compiles…
5/17/23 “The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace”: Nat’l Security Experts Demand U.S. Push to End Ukraine War
From Democracy Now | Original Article More than a dozen former U.S. national security officials have released an open letter calling for a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war. The call…
5/16/23 How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health
From Costs of War | Original Article A new report released by Costs of War sheds light on the devastating indirect toll of war on human health in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria,…
5/15/23 Hiroshima survivors urge G7 leaders to unite against atomic weapons
By Justin McCurry From The Guardian | Original Article Almost eight decades after the bomb, G7 leaders will meet in the Japanese city where survivors are urging action on disarmament amid the…
5/11/23 How art liberated a Pakistani man freed after 20 years of injustice in Guantanamo
By Rabia Mushtaq From Geo.TV | Original Article After years of waiting in internment and being cleared for release by six US government agencies in October 2021, Rabbani brothers finally returned home…
5/8/23 The Pentagon Has Been Recolonizing University Campuses—Why Aren’t More Students Protesting?
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Protest against military influence at the University of Michigan during the 1960s. [Source: umich.edu] Once upon a time getting a college degree…
5/4/23 Multiple US Officials Confronted About US Assange Hypocrisy On World Press Freedom Day
From CaitlinJohnstone.com | Original Article Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) Wednesday was World Press Freedom Day, and it saw US Secretary of State Antony…
5/1/23 Daniel Ellsberg Warns Risk of Nuclear War Is Rising as Tension Mounts over Ukraine & Taiwan-Part 2
From Democracy Now | Original Article As we continue our in-depth conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, the famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower talks about his lifelong antiwar activism and responds to the more recent…
5/1/23 After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Daniel Ellsberg Reflects on Leaking Pentagon Papers & His Legacy-Part 1
From Democracy Now | Original Article We spend the hour with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who recently announced that he has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer with only months left…
4/30/23 Preliminary Report: Shut Down Drone Warfare, April 15-22
By the Shut Down Drone Warfare Team: Virginia, Ken, Denise, Charles, Toby, Greg and Edwina Nearly four dozen activists participated in some or all of the first ever weeklong anti-drone peace convergence…