By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies From LA Progressive | Original Article The U.S. record easily matches, or arguably far outstrips, the illegality and brutality of Russia’s crimes in Ukraine. March 19th…
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3/15/23 Iraq Plus 20 – Lies as Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Dennis Kucinich From The Dennis Kucinich Report | Original Article Part One: The Script for the Lead-Up to War Lies and the Spreading of Fake Information – Photo by Kentoh Twenty…
3/10/23 Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin—Former Member of Raytheon Board of Directors—Has Awarded Over $30 Billion in Contracts to Raytheon Since His Confirmation in January, 2021
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article General Lloyd J. Austin III at his confirmation hearing. [Source: euractiv.com] [This article was originally published in April, 2021 at which time…
3/7/23 Six War Mongering Think Tanks And The Military Contractors That Fund Them
By Amanda Yee From Orinoco Tribune | Original Article From producing reports and analysis for U.S. policy-makers, to enlisting representatives to write op-eds in corporate media, to providing talking heads for corporate media to interview…
3/6/23 The U.S. and NATO—Partners in Imperialist Crime
From Revolution | Original Article The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a political and military alliance of European and North American countries. NATO was formed in the aftermath of World War…
3/3/23 The Sunshine Imperium
By Jasper Craven From The Baffler | Original Article The militarism of Ron DeSantis Four years into his unjustified imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, Mansoor Adayfi met a young member of the Navy’s…
2/26/23 Guantánamo: Sorry seems to be the hardest word
By Clive Stafford Smith From Al Jazeera | Original Article After 20 years in Guantánamo and a seven-year hunger strike, Ahmed Rabbani is finally free. Ahmed Rabbani saw his son, Jawad, for…
2/16/23 Our ‘father’ has finally been released from Guantanamo
By Mansoor Adayfi From Al Jazeera | Original Article But like all former detainees, including myself, father Saifullah is not truly free. This undated image provided by the counsel to Saifullah Paracha…
1/26/23 Ron DeSantis accused of illegal acts of torture against Guantanamo detainees when he was a Navy JAG officer
By Dan Christensen From Florida Bulldog | Original Article Former Guantanamo inmate Mansoor Adayfi’s depiction of himself being nasally force fed. “We had no rights at #Guantanamo. We had no power. We…
1/26/23 What can the United States bring to the peace table for Ukraine?
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From Nation of Change | Original Article The United States bears its share of responsibility for this crisis that is destroying Ukraine and placing the…
11/9/22 Timeline: “Torture, Psychology, and the War on Terror”
From the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology January 11, 2023 marks Guantanamo’s 21st anniversary as a “war on terror” prison where hundreds of men and boys have been subjected to degrading treatment,…
1/8/23 American Exceptionalism on Full Display
By Rebecca Gordon From TomDispatch | Original Article Why This Country Might Want to Lower Its Expectations Let me start with a confession: I no longer read all the way through newspaper…
11/18/22 Who’s Nuking Whom?
By Gerry Condon From LA Progressive | Original Article International peace and disarmament movements would do well to heed Russia’s concerns, including its warning about a possible nuclear “false flag” in Ukraine….
11/14/22 Congressional Amendment Opens Floodgates for War Profiteers and a Major Ground War on Russia
By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J. S. Davies From CodePink | Original Article If the powerful leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senators Jack Reed (D) and Jim Inhofe (R), have…
11/12/22 Surgeons Rushed to Guantánamo as Prisoner’s Condition Deteriorates
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article Lawyers for the prisoner, an Iraqi with spine disease, say it has suddenly gotten worse and that the U.S. naval base…