by Andy Worthington 15 torture victims still languish at Guantánamo, while Cheney, the architect of the “war on terror”, died having evaded all accountability. My new article on my website, Photos and…
Not only war crimes – completely law-less killing of boaters
Our friend L. Michael Hager, cofounder and former Director General, International Development Law Organization, Rome posted this in August, principally to speak to the degrading of the rule of law internationally, as the…
Requiem for the Rule of Law
By L. Michael Hager, originally posted on counterpunch.org The phrase “Rule of Law” (ROL) is frequently referenced in the major media but seldom defined. Google calls it “a principle under which all…
Sudan’s Struggle September 15, 2025 – October 16, 2025
October 16 CHOLERA OUTBREAK WORSENING AS FIGHTING CONTINUES. Fed Min of Health reported 120,496 cholera cases and 3,368 deaths nationwide. WHO warned that at 2.8%, the fatality rate is nearly 3…
Reckoning with where weaponized drones have got us
Trump’s six strikes so far this fall on boats in international waters, killing a reported 26 people, echo a pattern of identifying a “terrorist enemy” and employing means of aerial weapons to…
TYPES OF KILLER DRONES and AI TOOLS
by Nick Mottern This appendix discusses the primary categories of killer drones now in use; where some have been, or are in now, in use; and their manufacturers. These are representative…
ARGUMENTS FOR THE BANNING OF WEAPONIZED DRONES
by Nick Mottern Introduction The chart below, provided by Drone Wars UK, shows which nations have large, reusable, weaponized drones. So-called “suicide” drones, that crash into their targets and explode, and…
Memory + action for humanity: Sudan, Chile, Afghanistan
A thought from Stephanie Rugoff on the significance of dates: As 9/11 has come to mean in the average U.S. mind the attack on the Twin Towers and the beginning of the “war on…
We’re set to visit your class
We Are Not Your Soldiers is booking class visits now. In person, or virtual, students get the real story of what it means to sign up for the U.S. war machine. …
Sudan’s Struggle August 21, 2025 – September 15, 2025
September 15 STORIES OF TORTURE, RAPE AND DISAPPEARANCE OF FAMILY MEMBERS. These are the scenes recounted by displaced civilians in N Darfur, as the RSF tighten their siege on provincial capital El-Fasher….