From Democracy Now | Original Article On Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the Doomsday Clock for 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight, warning the world is closer to global…
Category: Outcries
1/23/23 Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal
From Democracy Now | Original Article Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky and others gave testimony Friday at the Belmarsh Tribunal…
1/12/23 Night Raids: Victims of CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Known as “Zero Units” Demand Accountability
From Democracy Now | Original Article We speak with journalist Lynzy Billing, whose investigation for ProPublica details how CIA-backed death squads, known as Zero Units, have yet to be held accountable for…
12/22/22 U.S. Faith Leaders Call for Xmas Truce in Ukraine as Zelensky Visits D.C. Seeking More Arms & Money
From Democracy Now | Original Article Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has wrapped up a one-day visit to Washington, D.C., where he called on the Biden administration and lawmakers to provide more military…
12/15/22 The Night Raids
By Lynzy Billing Video by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons From ProPublica | Original Article For many Afghans, terror came when night fell. Over the years, CIA-backed operations killed countless civilians. The U.S. left…
12/6/22 Jeffrey Sachs: A Negotiated End to Fighting in Ukraine Is the Only Real Way to End the Bloodshed
From Democracy Now | Original Article Guest: Jeffrey Sachs, economist, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network. AMY GOODMAN:…
11/2/22 How to End the War in Ukraine: Matt Duss and Ray McGovern Debate U.S. Policy on Russia, NATO & More
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…
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…