‘ By Dennis Kucinich From The Kucinich Report | Original Article The leaders of the world must assert common humanity and create a new path, a new map which is fair to…
Category: Outcries
11/5/23 Roses Dressed in Black
‘ By Liz Theoharis From TomDispatch | Original Article America\’s War Economy and the Urgent Call for Peace in the Middle East On September 19, 2001, eight days after 9/11, as the…
10/14/23 Demonization, Dehumanization, and War Crimes
‘ By Jonathan Kuttab From Friends of Sabeel North America | Original Article Atrocities committed against one’s enemies, up to and including genocide, always begin with dehumanization. I have always been aware…
9/5/23 “Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program
From Democracy Now | Original Article A military judge at Guantánamo has thrown out the confessions of Saudi man Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri because he had been tortured and waterboarded at secret CIA…
8/28/23 9/11 Families Like Mine Want Plea Agreements to End Indefinite Detention at Guantanamo
By Elizabeth Miller From Teen Vogue | Original Article My father, Douglas C. Miller, would have turned 56 on July 11. He was a New York City firefighter who gave his life…
8/12/23 540 Days at CIA Black Sites. 18 Years at Guantanamo Without Charge. Hundreds of Paintings, Now Out in The World.
By Feliz Solomon From Wall Street Journal | Original Article Listen to the audio here. His paintings tell the story of 18 painful years at Guantanamo. Photo: Insiya Syed for the Wall…
8/7/23 Lifting the Fog: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Here’s a link to an excellent hour-long documentary, “Lifting the Fog: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” produced in 1992 which uses archival clips, interviews with historians and dramatizations of journal entries…
7/19/23 ‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come
By Oliver Milman From The Guardian | Original Article Go to original article to see video. James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a…
7/4/23 Human Rights Defenders Slam Nomination of Elliott Abrams to Diplomacy Panel
By Jake Johnson From Common Dreams | Original Article Biden nominated Abrams, who has defended death squads and interventions, to serve on a bipartisan diplomacy commission. Former U.S. special envoy for Iran…
6/29/23 Here’s How Bad a Nuclear War Would Actually Be
By Max Tegmark From Time | Original Article We know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation,…
6/13/23 “Peace for All Time”: JFK’s Historic 1963 Call for Peace Helped Lead to Nuke Treaty with Moscow
From Democracy Now | Original Article President John F. Kennedy’s “peace speech” at American University 60 years ago was a searing critique of Cold War politics and laid out a hopeful vision…
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…