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The Secret Court: Is it Constitutional?
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:23 pm | War Is A Crime
Americans are just beginning to discover that a secret court has been quietly erasing their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. They are also learning that this court is made up primarily of conservative activists ... More >>
What's It Like to Go to Jail for Justice? One Person's Story
Monday, 5 August 2013, 11:39 am | War Is A Crime
At age 69, I recently found spending thirteen hours in a Washington, DC, jail one of the most invigorating experiences I've ever had, and it seems to have already helped to make the world a better place! More >>
Army Teaches Wrong Lesson in Nation's High Schools
Monday, 5 August 2013, 10:53 am | War Is A Crime
This summer the world will pause to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans are still supportive of Truman's decision despite overwhelming historical evidence the bomb had "nothing ... More >>
Edward Snowden - Review: The Terminal (2013)
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 5:11 pm | War Is A Crime
This summer’s blockbuster is a remake of Steven Spielberg’s 2004 romantic comedy The Terminal. The main figure in the earlier film, Viktor--played somewhat awkwardly by Tom Hanks, affecting a nondescript all-purpose Eastern European accent--is trying ... More >>
Gen. Hayden's Snow Job on Snowden
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 4:51 pm | War Is A Crime
Official Washington’s national security/mainstream media incest was on scandalous display when ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden posed as a CNN analyst to denounce Edward Snowden for exposing surveillance excesses that Hayden had a hand in creating. More >>
#FreeBrad Hall Of Shame: Lamo, Obama, Choike, Lind, et al.
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 2:20 pm | War Is A Crime
The rogues' gallery of those eager to participate in the persecution of whistleblower Bradley Manning will go down in infamy. Adrian Lamo, the Über lame snitch who seized his 15 minutes of fame by ratting out a young soldier in Iraq who was troubled by ... More >>
A Whole Different Class of People Here
Thursday, 27 June 2013, 11:44 am | War Is A Crime
I was flabbergasted when the the Congressional Research Service reported on May 17 that the Pentagon didn’t have a clue what the 108,000 contractors the Department of Defense (DOD) has in Afghanistan were actually doing--let alone how well they ... More >>
Even the Warriors Say the Wars Make Us Less Safe
Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 12:50 pm | War Is A Crime
Admiral Dennis Blair, the former director of National Intelligence (in the) New York Times: While “drone attacks did help reduce the Qaeda leadership in Pakistan,” he wrote, “they also increased hatred of America.” He said the drone has also ... More >>
Bradley Manning Is Guilty of “Aiding the Enemy” of Democracy
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 12:44 pm | War Is A Crime
Of all the charges against Bradley Manning, the most pernicious -- and revealing -- is “aiding the enemy.” A blogger at The New Yorker, Amy Davidson, raised a pair of big questions that now loom over the courtroom at Fort Meade and over the ... More >>
Netanyahu and ‘Acts of Hooliganism’
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 12:29 pm | War Is A Crime
One knows things are bad in Palestine when even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, known for his brutal heavy-handiness against the Palestinians, has to decry what he calls ‘acts of hooliganism’ against them. More >>
Vieques Vive La Lucha Continua 10 yrs after bombing stopped
Monday, 22 April 2013, 12:50 pm | War Is A Crime
Ten years ago May 1, the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico and their supporters from around the world defeated the most powerful military machine ever, through mass civil disobedience and without firing a single shot. On May 1, 2003 the bombing stopped ... More >>
Democracy is coming... to the U.S.A.!
Monday, 15 April 2013, 3:28 pm | War Is A Crime
When Judge Debbie O’Dell-Seneca recently directed a corporate “fracking” combine in Western Pennsylvania to unseal the terms of a settlement with citizen-plaintiffs, she struck a clear blow for the public’s right to know. But far beyond the borders ... More >>
Veterans to GIs:" You Don't Have to Go to Afghanistan"
Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 12:38 pm | War Is A Crime
Veterans For Peace has once again teamed up with March Forward to bring the Our Lives Our Rights campaign to active duty GIs facing deployment to Afghanistan. Since Monday, Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans—including active-duty soldiers—have been ... More >>
Veterans Commit Suicide From a Good Conscience
Monday, 8 April 2013, 10:57 am | War Is A Crime
Below are excerpts of an interview of Nao Rozi, an Afghan National Army veteran, and now a member of the Afghan Peace Volunteers. Nao Rozi: I was an Afghan soldier for 2 years and had combat roles. Hakim: What did you learn from your experience? ... More >>
No More Truthless Heroes
Monday, 18 February 2013, 12:51 pm | War Is A Crime
On February 11, 2013, the New York Times reported about the funeral of retired Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle, portraying him as a “warrior and family man.” The highly politicized and massive public funeral, held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, ... More >>
The hurt of militarized authoritarianism in the world
Monday, 11 February 2013, 5:10 pm | War Is A Crime
It’s hard for me, an ordinary citizen of Singapore, a medical doctor engaged in social enterprise work in Afghanistan and a human being wishing for a better world, to write this from Kabul. But people are dying. And children and women are feeling ... More >>
U.S. to become a second-rate power
Monday, 4 February 2013, 3:28 pm | War Is A Crime
Cue sound of emergency alarms. Insert graphics for panic, terror, devastation and collapse here ______.) Yes, believe it, friends. That is exactly what Outgoing Secretary of War Panetta said in a Feb. 1 exit interview with USA Today, when asked what effects ... More >>
Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire with Afghan Peace Volunteers
Monday, 17 December 2012, 12:30 pm | War Is A Crime
I have come here to give my support to the campaign for 2 million friends of the Afghan people. You have chosen to run this campaign because you remember that 2 million people from Afghanistan have died in violence under war, under killing. More >>
UVA Professor / Former CIA IG Calls Drone War A Success
Monday, 19 November 2012, 10:35 am | War Is A Crime
After a helpless, innocent drone was shot at by nefarious Iranians in the Persian Gulf on November 1st, drone strategy was in need of some comforting. Enter Frederick Hitz, a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Law and at the Batten ... More >>
Homer Simpson and the WMDs in Iraq...(d'oh)...I mean Iran
Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 5:56 pm | War Is A Crime
Most Americans now understand that the U.S. war against Iraq was based on lies cleverly disguised as secrets. Instead of consulting its intelligence agencies and making a decision on war and peace based on objective analysis, the U.S. government made ... More >>
