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…
Category: Outcries
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…
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…
4/9/23 90 Seconds to Midnight
By Frida Berrigan From TomDispatch | Original Article I’m not a TikTok person. I’m too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned app, which traffics in short videos…
3/26/23 After Tide of Memoirs From Americans, an Iraqi Journalist Offers Inside Account of War’s Destruction
By Murtaza Hussain From The Intercept | Original Article American journalists and soldiers have published countless memoirs about their experiences in the Iraq War. But a new book by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad provides…
3/24/23 Reflections on the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis and the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report
By Curtis Johnson From For the Planet and Humanity | Original Article I haven’t written in a while. Wondering frankly, what good will any of it do? I’ve been focused on restoration…