By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse. One of the…
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3/4/21 Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From Common Dreams | Original Article Unbeknownst to many Americans, the U.S. military and its allies are engaged in bombing and killing people in other…
2/28/21 Why I Support an International Treaty to Ban Weaponized Drones and Drone Surveillance
By Kathy Kelly From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Organized by Veterans for Peace, large demonstration at General Atomics where attack drones are made. (Poway, California) [Source: worldbeyondwar.com] At a time…
2/26/21 Dianna Ortiz, Survivor and Witness of the Guatemalan Genocide (1958-2021)
By Sergio Palencia Frener From NACLA | Original Article The American nun became an important voice against torture around the world and U.S. involvement in the Guatemalan conflict. Sr. Dianna Ortiz, an…
2/25/21 U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Covered Nearly Half the World in Past 3 Years, This Map Shows Where
By Tom O’Connor From Newsweek | Original Article Counterrorism operations conducted by the United States covered nearly half the countries of the world over the past three years, marking an extensive global…
2/20/21 Report of Illegal $80 Million Arms Transfer by Erik Prince to Libyan Warlord Raises Question of Who’s Backing Former Blackwater CEO
By Brett Wilkins From Common Dreams | Original Article Prince has “been linked to the Trump administration, the Emirati leadership, and the Russians,” noted one expert. Erik Prince is the brother of…
2/13/22 Yemenis aren’t starving. They are BEING starved.
By Debra Sweet In a welcome development, Biden has announced US plans to re-enter the Iran nuclear agreement, reversing Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement negotiated under Obama. He also announced the US…
2/10/21 Who Are the Ultimate War Profiteers? A U.S. Air Force Veteran Removes the Veil
By Christian Sorensen From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article While war corporations, or so-called “defense contractors,” make billions in profits, Wall Street is the ultimate beneficiary of today’s nonstop wars. The…
2/8/21 Civil-Liberties Groups Ask Biden Justice Dept. to Drop Julian Assange Case
By Charlie Savage From The New York Times | Original Article A Friday deadline in the London extradition case may force the Biden administration to decide whether to keep pursuing a Trump-era…
2/1/21 Psychologists Should Now Lead the Call to Close Guantánamo
By Roy Eidelson, Ph.D From Psychology Today | Original Article Last week, Mansoor Adayfi, Moazzam Begg, Lakhdar Boumediane, Sami Al-Hajj, Ahmed Errachidi, Mohammed Ould Slahi, and Moussa Zemmouri published an open letter in…
1/26/21 Biden Would Like You to Forget His Enthusiastic Support for Ethnic Cleansing, Mass Murder, Islamic Terrorists and War Criminals
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Part III of Biden Series With Friends Like These… Biden embraces Kosovo’s former Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi. Reports linked Thaçi to human…
1/19/21 Biden’s Key Role in the Crime of the Century: The 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Part II of Biden Series Biden convenes hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the eve of the Iraq War. [Source:…
1/14/21 Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd From Common Dreams | Original Article Nuland would be a ticking time-bomb in Biden’s State Department, waiting to sabotage his better angels much as…
1/11/21 Biden’s Foreign Policy History and What it Portends for his Presidency
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Part I of Biden Series Vice President Biden and his wife Jill at a ceremony in Bogotá honoring Colombian soldiers. (May 26,…
1/11/21 Not Pictured
By Pardiss Kebriaei From Center for Constitutional Rights | Original Article Drawing of Sharqawi Al Hajj. CREDIT: Christopher Noxon This is Sharqawi Al Hajj, a 47-year-old man from Yemen. He has been…