ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel Chris Anders writes, "When Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) courageously held the Senate floor for 13 hours in an historic filibuster to put a spotlight on a vast killing program run out of the White House - which has left 4,700 people dead,...
Obama’s Drones
Judge, jury & executioner?
Could he [Mr. Obama] order the targeted killing of an American citizen [cleric Anwar al-Awlaki], in a country with which the United States was not at war [Yemen], in secret and without the benefit of a trial? The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel prepared a...
Bradley Manning: Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2012
I can anticipate all the objections. Regardless, keeping Bradley Manning's name in the press increases the chances that some justice, somewhere might be served. From Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Margrét Tryggvadóttir, Members of the Icelandic Parliament: We have the great...
VERIFIED: Where Wars Do — and Don’t Come From
Where wars DO come from: "It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation." --Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The...
Iraq Veterans Against the War: The Documentary
Per IVAW: Voice of Art, the new documentary series on Pharrell Williams' I Am Other YouTube channel, is releasing Part 1 of its new episode entitled “Iraq Veterans Against the War” on Friday, June 29 2012. The episode features the historic march and returning of...
“Let Justice Flow Like a River…”
Resisting Drone in Missouri by Brian Terrell, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence The United States District Courthouse in Jefferson City, Missouri, is a modern and graceful structure sitting on a bluff over the Missouri River. Less than one year old, it...
Nullify the NDAA
From the Tenth Amendment Center: Los Angeles Event shows how States and Local Communities Can Stop NDAA Indefinite Detention As Congress focused last week on the so-called “indefinite detention” provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),...
45 Years ‘Beyond Vietnam’
Long time antiwar activist Phil Restino of Central Florida Veterans For Peace sent us this letter on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination: Hello All, It was 45 years ago today on 4 April 1967 at the Riverside Community Church in Harlem, NYC that...
Second Chance to Prevent Indefinite Detention of Americans
Reposted with permission from Campaign for Liberty's Michael Ostrolenk: A vote could occur today on two amendments introduced to prevent the indefinite detention of American citizens as currently written into the National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1867. Senate...
