By Marjorie Cohn From TruthOut | Original Article Activists lie on the ground to protest nuclear war in…
Author: Richie Marini
10/22/19 Jury Seated, Opening Statements at Plowshares Trial
By David Quinn-Jacobs From Kings Bay Plowshares 7| Original Article BRUNSWICK, GA – We’re underway. A jury some feel hopeful about and opening defense statements illustrating the humanity of the seven Kings…
10/20/19 Taking Next Steps Toward Nuclear Abolition
by Kathy Kelly From Voices For Creative Nonviolence | Original Article My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it…
10/18/19 Trump’s Fake Withdrawal From Endless War
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies From Common Dreams| Original Article Despite his endless promises to end these wars, Trump has instead been dropping more bombs and missiles on other…
10/18/19 The United States Air Force at Incirlik, Our National “Black Eye”
By Brian Terrell From Voices For Creative Nonviolence | Original Article Current events concerning Turkey and the Kurds in Syria remind me of a conversation I had with a US Air Force…
10/17/19 Out of Ireland:These Antiwar Vets Can’t Come Home
By Carol Dudek From The World Cant Wait | Original Article I had the privilege of…
10/14/19 No ‘Artwash’ for Bush’s Crimes, Says CodePink in Protest of Exhibit of Former President’s Paintings of Veterans in War He Started
By Eoin Higgins From Common Dreams | Orginial Article Activists from anti-war group CodePink on Sunday protested an exhibit of paintings of veterans by former President George W. Bush at the Kennedy…
10/13/19 The People Demand the fall of the regime
By Debra From World Cant Wait Thousands of Iraqis have been in the streets for a week. The Economist reports “an uprising” growing with over 100 protesters killed by the government. Sporadic…
10/7/19 Visual Drone Demonstration Outside the UN
By NYC World Can’t Wait On October 7, 2019, NYC World Can’t Wait activists and others joined artist Essam Attia in a visual repudiation of drone wars outside the UN where leaders…
10/3/19 Demonstration Against Sanctions & War on Iran
On Wednesday September 25, a demonstration initiated by World Can’t Wait and CodePink and cosponsored by Peace Action and other organizations was held outside and inside the United Against a Nuclear Iran…
10/1/19 Counting the Dead Through the Fog of War in Afghanistan
By Nicolas J. S. Davies From CounterCurrents.org | Original Article During one week in late September, U.S.-led forces killed at least 70 civilians in two incidents in Afghanistan. A U.S. drone strike on…
9/25/19U.S. Military Appoints Panel For Omar Khadr’s War-Crimes Appeal
From Huffpost | Original Article Dan Riedlhuber / Reuters Omar Khadr and his lawyer Dennis Edney after Khadr was…
9/26/19 U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture
By Joseph Margulies From Boston Review | Original Article They also acknowledged, for the first time, that the grounds for torturing Abu Zubaydah—who was detained in the wake of September 11 and…
9/21/19 Imagine Jair Bolsonaro Standing Trial for Ecocide at The Hague
By Ernesto Londoño From The New York Times | Original Article August, as vast stretches of the Amazon rainforest were being reduced to ashes and outrage and calls for action intensified,…
9/17/19 Trump Wants a Torture Proponent to Lead U.S. Human Rights Policy. The Senate Should Say No
By Rob Berschinski and Benjamin Haas From Politico | Original Article Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump has made no secret of his penchant for torture. It was, of course, a feature of…