(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 13, 2013
11 Years of Infamy -- US Actions at Guantanamo Prison Despite his January 22, 2009 executive order closing Guantanamo Prison in one year, President Obama ensured the continued operation of Guantanamo for another year by signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, and refused to challenge the Congressional mandated ban on transfers from Guantánamo to the federal court and prison system in the United States.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 6, 2013
Drones Kill Kids: Protesting in Hawaii Obama's Drone Program As President Barack Obama spent his last day, January 5, in Hawaii, representatives from Hawaii Peace and Justice and World Can't Wait protested his assassin drone program and lack of effort on Palestinian issues in front of his Hawaii vacation home. US citizen protests against the American drone assassination program will continue in 2013.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 15, 2012
The Compassion of Women of Afghanistan for the Women of Gaza Here in Afghanistan, a country ravaged by war for 30 years, a woman whose country is described as a "hospital," reached out to women in an area called "an open air prison." Meeting with the Afghan Peace Volunteers gives one hope that, in time of conflict, there are remarkable people who, at great risk, will take action for peace.

(29 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 8, 2012
Israel and Palestine: Who is The Victim and Who Is the Aggressor? The Israeli characterization of themselves as "victims" is refuted by their violent, inhuman and unjust treatment of the Palestinians whom they refer to as the "aggressors." Indeed, the Israeli government is the true aggressor and the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are the victims.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Challenging President Morsi On Tahrir Square We've been in and out of Tahrir Square all day. It's almost midnight and tens of thousands of Egyptians have been to the square in the middle of Cairo that was the center of the revolution against dictator Hosni Mubarak, to protest the new President's decrees on the judiciary and legislative branches of government.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 23, 2012
Israeli Violence Finally on Trial If the Turkish court convicts the accused, then international arrest warrants can be issued and INTERPOL would be required to arrest them if they leave Israel, for virtually any country other than the United States. The Turkish judgment could also be used as a basis for further judicial proceedings in the International Criminal Court.

(8 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 18, 2012
Israeli Envoy calls "Estelle" a Provocation While 7 Parliamentarians Sail to Break the Blockade of Gaza Seven parliamentarians from five European countries are on sailing on the sloop "Estelle" to break the Israeli Blockade of Gaza. Among the 20+ passengers are parliamentarians from Greece, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and a retired parliamentarian from Canada. The "Estelle" is expected to reach Gaza by this weekend.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 16, 2012
U.S. Joins Israel in Blockading Higher Education Opportunities for Students in Gaza As another international activist ship is on the high seas to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, the United States government has joined with Israel to blockade higher education opportunities for students in Gaza and the West Bank.

(8 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 15, 2012
Disinvited To Be a Passenger on The Swedish Boat to Gaza "Estelle" I am saddened by the decision of the board to withdraw its invitation and I believe it is wrong. All of our projects that have challenged Israeli policies toward Palestinians have been called anti-Semitic by pro-Israeli groups. This is not a new tactic used to scare pro-Palestinian groups.

SHARE        Friday, October 5, 2012
American Policies In Pakistan A letter to Ambassador Richard Hoagland after he met with the Codepink Delegation for Peace on October 3, pointing out the obvious -- American policies are what have made Pakistan dangerous for Americans.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Survivor of US Military Rape in Japan Allowed to Pursue Perpetrator in US Courts Thousands of Japanese women and girls have been sexually assaulted or raped by US military personnel since American forces invaded Japan in 1945. On the island of Okinawa, rape of Okinawan girls has happened so frequently and has precipitated massive citizen protests that that the US military is being forced to reduce its presence on the island.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 23, 2012
Blockade Busters -- Activists and Ships Attempting to Break the Israeli Blockade of Gaza After the release of two boats in mid-June, the Israeli government still has seven boats impounded in Haifa harbor: six passenger boats -- "Spirit of Humanity," "Challenger 1," "Irene," "Dignite-Al Karama," "Tahrir," and "Saoirse," and one cargo ship: "Rachel Corrie."

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 22, 2012
More Costs of War: Suicides and Mental Trauma of Military Family Members After the death of their son Alex in Iraq, Brian's father Carlos Arredondo and his stepmother Melida travelled the country reminding the public of those dying in America's wars on Iraq and Afghanistan -- Americans, Iraqis and Afghans. The Arredondos are now embarked on a mission to better understand the suicides that are occurring in military families.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Green-Washing War, Sinking Ships, Drones from Submarines -- Largest International War Games around Hawaii While a battalion of U.S. Marines from Hawaii were sent recently to Okinawa and a smaller detachment sent to Australia, those remaining in Hawaii are in hot water. Increasing administration emphasis on Asia and the Pacific has emboldened the Marines to attempt to increase the number of MV-22-tilt-rotor Osprey, Cobra and Huey attack-utility helicopter training helicopter flights in the Hawaiian Islands

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 17, 2012
America's Drones Are Homeward Bound The regulator has until Sept. 30, 2015, to formulate a plan to integrate up to 30,000 drones into U.S. airspace. The dedication of activists and the modest efforts of a few concerned members of Congress have so far failed to halt the flight of drones from the battlefield to our homeland.

(15 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 18, 2012
Amnesty's Shilling for US Wars For decades, Amnesty International has been a respected name in the cause of human rights, but its recent hiring of Suzanne Nossel, a longtime U.S. "humanitarian interventionist," has swung the organization more behind the Afghan War and the use of U.S. military force.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 1, 2012
Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders of Nine Gaza Freedom Flotilla Passengers a court in Istanbul, Turkey, voted unanimously to approve an indictment against Israel's former military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, as well as for Eliezer Marom, Amos Yadlin, and Avishai Levi, the former heads of the Israeli Navy, Air Force Intelligence, and Military Intelligence. If convicted, each faces nine consecutive life terms in prison for "inciting to kill monstrously, and by torturing."

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 18, 2012
Chicago's Scaring Itself Silly While NATO -- Not Protesters -- Disrupts the City and the World In Chicago, in preparing the public for the meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), government officials at the national, state and city level are scaring themselves and the public silly. Chicago is a city scared more of fellow citizens than of the violence wrecked on people around the world by the US and NATO war policies!

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The Dark Side of the Prestigious Marine Barracks The Marine Barracks has its dark and ugly side. It is also the home of officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps who have been accused of sexually harassing, assaulting and raping female Marine officers and enlisted and civilian women who work there.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 5, 2012
About "Those Other Things that Fly" In the annual unclassified briefing, it appeared that only the questions about drones were unclassified. The answers about "those other things that fly" apparently remain classified.