Cat Watters | April 3, 2014 Last fall, CUNY’s Board of Trustees hired ex-general Petraeus to teach a course titled “Are We On The Threshold of a North American Decade?” at the…
Drones & Dirty Wars, Prelude to Drone Days of Action 2014
Cat Watters | April 2, 2014 A live program & international webcast in support of the Spring Days of Action – 2014, a coordinated campaign in April and May to End Drone…
Bereaved Yemenis to Launch National Drone Victims’ Organisation
Reprieve.org | March 28, 2014 A group of people who have lost loved ones to US drone strikes in Yemen will next week (Tuesday April 1) launch a national organisation with the…
“Spring Days” of Action Aim at Proliferation of Weaponized Drones and Surveillance; U.S. Targeted Killing Programs
PRESS ADVISORYMarch 20, 2014 Contact: Nick Motternnickmottern@earthlink.net(914) 806-6179 “SPRING DAYS OF DRONE ACTION – 2014”, a series of grassroots events organized internationally in April and May aimed not only at stopping current…
US Media Ignores 7 US Drone Strikes On Yemen In First 12 Days Of March
Rania Khalek | March 17, 2014 We already know that ignoring America’s extrajudicial killings of unnamed brown people halfway across the world is uninteresting to most US media outlets. But this month,…
Nine Years of Hunger Strikes and Force-Feeding at Guantánamo: A Declaration in Support of Emad Hassan by Clive Stafford Smith
Andy Worthington | March 16, 2014 Last week, I wrote an article, “Guantánamo Prisoner Force-Fed Since 2007 Launches Historic Legal Challenge,” about Emad Hassan, a Yemeni prisoner who is challenging the US…
Long-Cleared Algerian Prisoner Ahmed Belbacha Released from Guantánamo
Andy Worthington | March 16, 2014 I’m delighted to report that Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian prisoner, has been released from Guantánamo. It’s always good news when a prisoner is released, and in…
World Can’t Wait Needs YOU to Sustain Its Mission
World Can’t Wait | March 19, 2014 Through four U.S. presidents this government has sustained punishment of Iraq with sanctions, bombs, and illegitimate occupation. Eleven years from the “shock & awe” invasion,…
Drones & Dirty Wars: Prelude to Drone Days of Action 2014
Wednesday April 2 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EasternCommunity Church 40 E. 35th Street, NYC A live program & international webcast in support of the Spring Days of Action – 2014, a…
Spring Days of Action to End U.S. Drone Killing & Surveillance
A Coordinated Campaign April & May 2014 We live in a country whose government assassinates thousands with drones. A spreading “war on terror” from Iraq and Afghanistan, to Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya,…