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…
Category: Outcries
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…
3/1/22 2015
From Hirshhorn Museum | Original Article Mohammed el Gharani—one of the youngest detainees at Guantánamo Bay, who was released without charge in 2009—features in the monumental installation Habeas Corpus (2015), now on…
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…
12/22/21 A Pentagon Cover-Up: Azmat Khan on How U.S. Hid Thousands of Civilian Deaths in Middle East Air War
From Democracy Now | Original Article U.S. air power has been central in the country’s wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, with officials promising that drones and other sophisticated weapons allow…
11/26/21 Meet Mansoor Adayfi: I Was Kidnapped as a Teen, Sold to the CIA & Jailed at Guantánamo for 14 Years
From Democracy Now | Original Article We speak with Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was held at the military prison for 14 years without charge, an ordeal he details…
11/22/21 A Memorial to the Terrorists
By Michael Moore From MichaelMoore.com | Original Article U.S. forces bombing Baghdad on March 21, 2003 to launch an illegal and immoral war based on lies (Photo by Mirrorpix/Getty Images) Eleven days…
11/16/21 Kathy Kelly on Drone Killings Don’t Look Away Campaign
From The Sanctuary for Independent Media | Original Article Kathy Kelly of the Ban Killer Drones campaign discusses their Don’t Look Away effort after Thanksgiving to draw attention to all of the…
10/7/21 Abu Zubaydah Was Tortured for Years at CIA Black Sites. Biden Is Trying to Keep the Abuse Secret.
From Democracy Now | Original Article The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case brought by Abu Zubaydah, the Guantánamo prisoner who was the first subject of the CIA’s torture…
10/7/21 Ex-CIA Officer Who Led Raid that Captured Leading Al Qaeda Suspect Is Now Denouncing CIA for Torturing Zubaydah for 20 Years In Guantanamo Without Ever Charging Him With A Crime
By John Kiriakou From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article [John Kiriakou was the CIA’s Chief Counter-terrorism Operations officer in Pakistan. He led numerous military raids on al-Qaeda safehouses, captured dozens…
9/27/21 Meet Mansoor Adayfi: I Was Kidnapped as a Teen, Sold to the CIA & Jailed at Guantánamo for 14 Years
From Democracy Now | Original Article We speak with Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was held at the military prison for 14 years without charge, an ordeal he details…