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Ann Wright is a 29-year US Army/Army Reserves veteran, a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Wright was also a passenger on the Challenger 1, which along with the Mavi Marmara, was part of the Gaza flotilla. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December, 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book "Dissent: Voices of Conscience." She has written frequently on rape in the military.
SHARE Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Golden Rule Peace Boat Sets Sail from Hawai'i for California
The Golden Rule first sailed from California to Hawaii 63 years ago, in 1958, on her way to interfere with U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, the site of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb blasts from 1952 to 1958.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 1, 2021 US Army Corps Of Engineers Permit Big Oil To Dredge Mercury-Contaminated Matagorda Bay
Texas internationally known environmentalist Diane Wilson is on Day 22 of her hunger strike to gain national solidarity and publicity for pressure on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rescind its permit for big oil to dredge a channel in mercury laden Matagorda Bay, Texas.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 29, 2021 In Alarmist Turn, NATO Is Increasingly Positioning Itself in Opposition to China
During the March 23-24 meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) council, Anthony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, encouraged NATO members to join the U.S. in viewing China as an economic and security threat.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, March 19, 2021 18 Years Ago the US War on Iraq Began & Why I Oppose Hawaii's Homeland Defense Radar as Continuation of War
Today, Friday, March 19, 2021 is the 18th anniversary of the U.S. government political decision to invade and occupy oil-rich Iraq, a country of 32 million persons. U.S. elected officials and their advisers decided it would be in the U.S. national security interest to attack and overthrow the Iraqi government.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 27, 2021 For Peace With North Korea, Biden Must End the US-South Korea Military Exercises
Talks between the U.S. and North Korea have been stalled since 2019, and North Korea has continued to develop its weapons arsenal, recently unveiling what appears to be its largest intercontinental ballistic missile.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Treaty offers U.S. a way to push for ban on nuclear weapons
The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty prohibits the development or possession of nuclear weapons and the use or threat to use nuclear weapons. The Treaty is a milestone in the long march toward nuclear abolition.
SHARE Thursday, December 17, 2020 A Brief History of U.S. Military Poisoning of Hawaii
Jon Mitchell's book of military poisons found in the Pacific is an excellent guide for an investigation into the pollution and contamination in and around the military bases in Hawai'i.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 15, 2020 Dangers of Military Confrontation Between the United States and China Around Taiwan and in the South China Sea
Over the past two years, the United States has dramatically increased the number of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and destroyers sent into the South China Sea as a freedom of navigation show of force missions to remind the Chinese government that the U.S. considers the Western Pacific and the South China Sea as a part of the oceans of America and its allies.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 5, 2020 War Is A Disaster, Not A Game
The U.S. is in no position to be an enforcer of peace building. Domestically, the U.S. policing system has proven abusive and broken. Similarly, the U.S. posture as "the world cop" has likewise proven expensive, unaccountable and ineffective for international peace.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Despite the danger of COVID 19, the US Military Continues War Practice in Europe and Pacific and plans for more in 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, not only will the U.S. military have the largest maritime military maneuvers in the world, with Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) coming to the waters off Hawaii August 17-31, 2020 bringing 26 nations, 25,000 military personnel, up to 50 ships and submarines and hundreds of aircraft in midst of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, but the U.S. Army is having a 6,000 person war game in June 2020 in Poland.
(11 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Why Is "Reverend" Trump trying to Kill the Christians that Elected him?
It surely looks like Trump is trying to kill the evangelical Christians that elected him. Trump is willing to allow the congregations that gave him huge numbers of votes, to mingle, sing, hug, kiss and exchange airborne corona virus.
SHARE Monday, April 6, 2020 Collateral Murder -- 10 Years Later -- Webinar from Don't Extradict Assange
This webinar is about Chelsea Manning's decision to leak the video know known as Collateral Damage to Wikileaks -- and Julian Assange facing possible extradiction to the US for espionage, if we as activists do not succeed in stopping the extradiction to the U.S...
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 23, 2020 US Must Protect Cultural Locations in Iran and Secretary of Defense Sets Trump Straight on it
The U.S. is required to abide by the Geneva Conventions and must not target the cultural, religious and medical facilities of Iran. Citizens of the U.S. should work to prevent President Trump, Secretary of Defense Esper and Secretary of State Pompeo from starting a war with Iran.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 9, 2019 The Peace Boat's Around the World Voyage
While spending 103 days on a boat and visiting locations for very short amounts of time is not for many people, those who chose to spend time and money on a Peace Boat Around the World trip will come home with new perspectives on different issues and parts of the world.