Debra Sweet | July 31, 2023 Thanks to so many of you for responding to my query about the film Oppenheimer. It is not a film showing people the horror of nuclear weapons…
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied Guantanamo Prisoners
Curt Wechsler | Thursday July 27, 2023 Illegal detention is torture for its victims; compounded by delayed judgment, it can be deadly. The history of neglect and passivity ascribed to treatment of prisoners in…
Have you seen the film Oppenheimer?
Debra Sweet | Friday, July 21 2023 “Oppenheimer,” the film about the pivotal physicist in the Manhattan Project which developed the atom bomb, opens nationally today. I’m going to see it this…
Monthly global actions to Close Guantanamo
Debra Sweet | Firday, July 21 2023 REMINDER: Monthly global actions to Close Guantanamo take place Wednesday August 2. This is spreading, and you can start one where you are even with just…
Scranton Ukraine Peace Rally
Debra Sweet | July 21, 2023 Saturday July 22 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDTArmy Ammunition Plant (SCAAP), 156 Cedar Avenue, Scranton PA From the organizers: Scranton is the hometown of President Joe Biden. And,…
U.S. leads small club of cluster bombers
Debra Sweet | July 10, 2023 Search the term “cluster bombs” and you’ll find condemnation of their use from many directions, which resulted in over 100 countries signing on to a righteous…
10 generations of U.S. impact on the globe
Debra Sweet | July 4, 2023 My close friend and World Can’t Wait colleague Stephanie Rugoff hates it when people speak of the United States as “America,” her point being that there…
More on “Courage is Contagious” Dan Ellsberg
Debra Sweet | July 4, 2023 Demonstrating outside the White House in 2010: Tarak Kauff, Ray McGovern, Daniel Ellsberg, Debra Sweet and unidentified CodePink participant. On June 16, the courageous…
Just in on Jenin
Debra Sweet | July 4, 2023 In recent days a pogrom has been carried out by right-wing Zionist settlers in Palestinian villages. Today these on-going attacks took on another form. In the…
Daniel Ellsberg RIP
Debra Sweet | June 21, 2023 Dan’s life and contributions to the fight against U.S. wars and the imminent danger of nukes, were momentous once he released the Pentagon Papers in 1971…