By Cindy Sheehan I am numb, I think. Since the U.S. Corporate Military Industrial Complex forced me into the World of the Aware after my son’s murder in Iraq, I feel that…
Category: Voices of Resistance
The Lies That Bind: The Myth of America, and the Murderous Reality
By Chris Floyd Henry Miller once said that the purpose of the artist is to "inoculate the world with disillusionment." We are in desperate need of disillusionment today — disillusionment…
The Case of Abu Zubaydah: US Court Relies on Lies to Continue Detention
By Andy Worthington In the history of the “War on Terror,” few stories are as disturbing as that of Abu Zubaydah. Seized in Pakistan in March 2002, Zubaydah was initially regarded…
Invisible Holocaust: Mountains of Dead Children and “the World’s Greatest Democracy”
By Chris Floyd In the last decade of the 20th century, a nation often hailed (not least by itself) as the "world’s greatest democracy" directed a program of savage economic warfare against…
Jay Bybee: The Torturer’s Accomplice
By Andy Worthington Last Thursday, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, released the previously undisclosed testimony of Jay S. Bybee, delivered to the Committee on May 26…
Restrepo: The Afghan People as Extras in Hollywood’s Films, America’s Conscience
By libbyliberal Tom Engelhardt wrote in an introduction to Nick Turse’s blunt and moving commentary of Sebastian Junger’s new film Restrepo: “Left screen center was usually the American platoon, a kind…
Generation without a Future, a Future without Generations: the Endless Suffering of Afghan Children
By Gabriele Maranci Nine and a half have passed since the US and allies invaded Afghanistan. American and European soldiers (among whom the most affected are the British) sacrificed their lives for…
Guantanamo Prisoner Denounces Kangaroo Proceedings
By Kenneth J. Theisen On Monday, July 12th Omar Khadr defiantly rejected the kangaroo proceedings taking place against him at Guantanamo Bay. Omar refused a U.S. offered plea bargain and fired his U.S….
The Guantánamo Archive: 3 Years, 650 Articles
By Andy Worthington Yesterday I published a list, with links, of all my articles over the last six months in chronological order, as the latest installment of a project to list…
Plea Deal Forced on Bin Laden Cook at Guantánamo Trial
By Andy Worthington In an alleged victory for the Military Commission trial system for terror suspects at Guantánamo, revived by President Obama last year despite the fact that he suspended the Commissions…