By Debra Sweet From Donald Rumsfeld’s bio page. Donald Rumsfeld was a cunning unapologetic political/military operative in the US…
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6/28/21 U.S. Supreme Court rejects defense contractor’s Abu Ghraib torture appeal
By Lawrence Hurley From Reuters | Original Article The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday put CACI International Inc (CACI.N) a step closer to facing a trial in a lawsuit by three Iraqi…
5/27/21 The IDF’s Unlawful Attack on Al Jalaa Tower
By Adil Ahmad Haque From Just Security | Original Article On May 15, 2021, early in the afternoon, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) informed residents of the Al Jalaa tower that it…
5/17/21 How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians
By Nicolas J.S. Davies and Medea Benjamin From CommonDreams | Original Article U.S. policy has perpetuated the crisis and atrocities of the Israeli occupation by unconditionally supporting Israel in three distinct ways:…
5/17/21 ‘Criminal Complicity’: Outrage as Biden Pushes $735 Million Weapons Sale to Israel Amid Gaza Slaughter
By Jake Johnson From CommonDreams | Original Article “Approving more weapons to Israel would add fuel to the fire and would only embolden Israel to continue its bombardments on Gaza.” Then-U.S. Vice…
4/28/21 Commission Finds Anti-Black Police Violence Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity
By Marjorie Cohn From Truthout | Original Article Demonstrators protest near the Hennepin County Courthouse on April 19, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Scott Olson / Getty Images On April 27, the International Commission…
4/23/21 Is U.S. Ending the “good” War in Afghanistan?
By Debra Sweet The political and military leaders who run the U.S. have real problems in the Middle East. Twenty years of their “war on terror” has failed to establish U.S. control…
4/20/21 Sharqawi Al Hajj Appears Before Guantánamo Review Board after Multiple Acts of Self-Harm and Suicidal Statements
From Center for Constitutional Rights | Original Article Hearing Comes on Heels of Deteriorating Mental Health and Over a Year Without Attorney Visits Due to COVID-19 April 20, 2021, Guantánamo – Today,…
4/17/21 Two Dozen Senators Finally Tell Biden It Is ‘Past Time’ to Finally Close Guantánamo
By Jessica Corbett From CommonDreams | Original Article Demonstrators dressed in Guantánamo Bay prisoner uniforms march past Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)…
4/15/21 Biden’s Claim To Be Ending America’s Longest War Misleading
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article U.S. soldiers at Bagram air base in Afghanistan. [Source: nytimes.com] Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors and Intelligence Operatives Will Remain On Wednesday April…
4/14/21 Denis Halliday: A Voice of Reason in an Insane World
By Nicolas J.S. Davies From CommonDreams | Original Article “I think the United States and its populous, who vote these governments in, need to understand that the children and the people of…
4/10/21 Hunting in Yemen
By Kathy Kelly From To End All Wars “It’s not normal for people to live like this,” says Iman Saleh, now on her twelfth day of a hunger strike demanding an end…
4/7/21 As the Climate Crisis Grows, a Movement Gathers to Make ‘Ecocide’ an International Crime Against the Environment
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma and Yuliya Talmazan From Inside Climate News | Original Article International lawyers, environmentalists and a growing number of world leaders say “ecocide”—widespread destruction of the environment—would serve…
3/22/21 Dirty Business As Usual: New CIA Director Burns Confirmed by Unanimous Vote in Senate
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article William J. Burns, President Biden’s nominee to run the CIA, speaks at his confirmation hearing on February 23rd. [Source: nytimes.com] William J….
3/22/21 Multi-Domain Integration is the new Full-Spectrum Dominance
By Will Griffin From The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space | Original Article (see Winter/Spring 2021) Full-Spectrum Dominance, or Full-Spectrum Superiority as stated in the Department of Defense…