From Democracy Now | Original Article As the U.S. pours billions in military aid into Ukraine, we host a debate on the Biden administration’s response to the war and U.S. policy…
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10/12/22 Medea Benjamin & Nicolas Davies: Negotiations “Still the Only Way Forward” to End Ukraine War
From Democracy Now | Original Article The Biden administration has ruled out the idea of pushing Ukraine to negotiate with Russia to end the war, even though many U.S. officials believe…
10/12/22 War, Climate Change, and Other Disasters Haunt Afghanistan
By Emran Feroz From American Prospect | Original Article Listen to the article here. Almost half a century of fighting brought the country to its nadir, and there is no clear way…
9/28/22 Reminders of Why We Keep on Keeping on
By Nick Mottern Here are recent news items that reminded me of why we keep working to ban weaponized drones regardless of how far away that goal may seem. Ethiopia “The…
8/15/22 CIA spying on Assange “illegally” swept up US lawyers, journalists – Lawsuit
Press Conference: August 15, 2022 11:00 am EDT Panel: Margaret Ratner Kunstler (Plaintiff) ; Deborah Hrbek (Plaintiff) ; Richard Roth (Attorney); Robert Boyle (Attorney) ; Nathan Fuller (Assange Defense Committee) ; John Goetz…
7/13/22 Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups
By Reuters From Yahoo News | Original Article John Bolton, a former U.S. diplomat and one-time national security advisor to former president Donald Trump, on Tuesday told CNN he’d helped plan…
6/12/22 The Secret Pentagon Photos of the First Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article While not an audio or video, this is a photo slide presentation which you can view in its entirety here. GUANTÁNAMO…
6/8/22 Marriage Classes at Guantanamo
By Mansoor Adayfi From The New York Times | Original Article Listen here. Read the full transcript here. Mansoor Adayfi was only 19 when he arrived at the prison camp at…
3/14/22 OMG, War Is Kind of Horrible
By David Swanson From Let’s Try Democracy | Original Article For decades, the U.S. public seemed largely indifferent to most of the horrible suffering of war. The corporate media outlets mostly avoided…
3/4/22 ‘Let Them Kill as Many as Possible’: The Roots of US Militarism in Russia and Around the World
By Brian Terrell From Common Dreams | Original Article Refugees from many diffrent countries—from Africa, Middle East and India—mostly students of Ukrainian universities are seen at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing fleeing…
2/27/22 Time for the US to take the lead for peace in Ukraine: The US’s Aggressive Expansion of NATO Created This Horror; The US Can and Should End It
By Dave Lindorff From This Can’t Be Happening | Original Article The sad state of what used to be the peace movement in the US is on display today in the nation’s…
2/7/22 Help Raise Funds for the Washington Post to Fund a Decent Research Facility
From RevCom | Original Article Tensions over Ukraine—essentially over how much of Eastern Europe will be dominated by the U.S. and its allies vs. Russia—continue (see coverage at revcom.us). As the conflict…
1/19/22 Newly Declassified Video Shows U.S. Killing of 10 Civilians in Drone Strike
WASHINGTON — Newly declassified surveillance footage provides additional insights about the final minutes and aftermath of a botched U.S. drone strike last year in Kabul, Afghanistan, showing how the military made a…
1/19/22 Call of the Ban Killer Drones Campaign: No armed drones for the German Military
By Brian Terrell Action month is January, 2022 in the run-up to the vote at the 47th Federal Delegates Conference of the Green Party on 28/29 January 2022 on the possible arming…
12/29/21 Climate Chaos: What to Learn From 2021
By Joao Camargo From Common Dreams | Original Article To keep acting as if there wasn’t war declared against the planet and humanity is to accept we are already defeated. Continuing to…