‘ From Democracy Now | Original Article South Africa has filed a case at the main judicial body for the United Nations, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, accusing Israel…
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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…
8/12/23 540 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…
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…