By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From CommonDreams | Original Article The irresolvable dilemma facing Western leaders is that this is a no-win situation. Only courageous peace talks can bring this…
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9/29/22 ‘End War in Ukraine’ Say 66 Nations at UN General Assembly
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From CommonDreams | Original Article “It’s time to stop this mass destruction,” said Congolese Foreign Minister Jean-Claude Gakosso this week. “It’s time to stop this…
9/21/22 Murder on Embassy Row—46 Years On: Remembering the Assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article [Source: americasquarterly.org] On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb took the lives of Orlando Letelier, Minister of Foreign Relations…
9/11/22 Senator Bob Graham Helped Expose Saudi Arabia’s Ties to 9/11
By Michael Steven Smith From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article September 11 will mark the 21st anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by 19…
9/5/22 Peace Talks Essential as War Rages on in Ukraine
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From CommonDreams | Original Article Further escalation should be unthinkable, but so should a long war of endless crushing artillery barrages and brutal urban and…
7/26/22 What Mid-East Presidential Visit Shows
By Debra Sweet I read a lot of commentary and condemnation in the liberal press of Biden’s fist bump with MBS, who runs the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Most of the criticism,…
7/16/22 Russian-Hating Dream of Brzezinski Clan Nears Fulfillment as Poland Agrees to Host Permanent U.S. Base and Turn Baltic Sea into NATO Lake
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Mark Brzezinski, the U.S. Ambassador to Poland, is the son of the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, a descendent of Polish aristocrats and mastermind…
6/29/22 NATO and a War Foretold
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From CounterPunch | Original Article As NATO holds its Summit in Madrid on June 28-30, the war in Ukraine is taking center stage. During a…
6/29/22 Ukraine Is The Latest Neocon Disaster
By Jeffrey Sachs From Tikkun | Original Article Photo by DonkeyHotey The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed…
5/3/22 C.I.A. Captive Was Too Small for Waterboard, Interrogator Testifies
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article The former C.I.A. contract psychologist described both approved and unapproved interrogation techniques that he observed and carried out in the black…
5/1/22 War Crimes Hearing Revisits U.S. Soldiers’ Abuse of Detainees
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Defense lawyers are delving into the early days of detainee abuse in wartime Afghanistan in pretrial hearings…
4/26/22 The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About
By Nick Turse From TomDispatch | Original Article Casualties of America’s Never-Ending Global War on Terror Madogaz Musa Abdullah still remembers the phone call. But what came next was a blur. He…
4/26/22 International justice for Ukraine but not Palestine?
By Maureen Clare Murphy From Electronic Intifada | Original Article International law is held up as a yardstick by which to judge the conduct of all states and non-state actors equally. But…
4/26/22 Biden’s New Arms Czar for Ukraine Has a Lot of Blood on His Hands—They Are Likely to Get Even Bloodier
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Terry Wolff oversaw training of Iraqi forces for deadly siege of Mosul and coalition fighting dirty war in Syria President Joe Biden’s…
4/23/22 Ex-Guantanamo detainee sues Canada over 14-year ordeal of detention and torture
By Michelle Shepherd From Toronto Star | Original Article A former Guantanamo detainee, whose story of detention and torture was featured in a best-selling memoir and Hollywood film, is going to court…