Shout out to Joy Damiani, a speaker for We Are Not Your Soldiers, who posted this on “Veterans” Day: …Last year around this time I put this sign up in my window and my HOA…
Category: Voices of Resistance
Photos and Report: The Ten Coordinated Global Monthly Vigils for the Closure of Guantánamo on August 7, 2024
Read the original post by Andy Worthington On Wednesday (August 7) campaigners for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay marked 18 months of monthly coordinated global vigils for the prison’s…
Biden’s idea: Haitian refugees to GITMO
Genocide Joe Biden was the VP of the president who was going to close Guantanamo, Day 1. Twelve years later, as President, he mumbled something about closing it some day. How’s that…
The Crisis in Korea, and a History of Lies to Justify War
By Robert Parry If American journalism should have learned one thing over the years, it is to be cautious and skeptical during the first days of a foreign confrontation like the one…
The Continuing Relevance and Importance of the “Pyramid Analysis”
By Bob Avakian The following is an excerpt from the text of a talk by Bob Avakian in Fall 2009, which was serialized in Revolution. While presented last year, before the recent…
No Justice for Omar Khadr at Guantánamo
By Andy Worthington Exactly two years ago, when I began writing a weekly column for the Future of Freedom Foundation on Guantánamo, torture and other crimes and abuses committed as part of…
“Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: Day Six – Education, Human Experimentation and a Grand Finale
By Andy Worthington Getting up at the crack of dawn to visit a high school to discuss Guantánamo could hardly have been a less appealing idea after the exhausting events of…
Andy Worthington and Justine Sharrock at “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week
By Andy Worthington As part of “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week (the largest gathering of anti-torture experts and activists since the Bush administration began its “War on Terror” over nine years…
Liveblogging “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: Day One
By Andy Worthington The weather in the Bay Area is radiant — hot, sunny, and astonishing for mid-October — and, although a ten-hour flight from London and my usual paranoia about Homeland…