From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now (IEC): Act Now: Defend the Life of Rebel Rapper Toomaj Salehi! On April 24, Toomaj, Iranian rapper and songwriter, was sentenced…
Report on Wednesday May 1: Global Vigils to Close Guantanamo Now
In London, Mexico City, Washington DC, NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Minneapolis We continue to highlight the 16 men still held in Guantanamo even though they have been “cleared” for release…
The “Abu Ghraib” Trial: U.S. corporation being sued by victims of torture at Abu Ghraib
From the Center on Constitutional Rights: For more on the ongoing trial, see Maha Halal’s piece, Carceral Imperialism: Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the U.S. War on Iraq. ‘To this day…
Sudan’s Struggle April 10, 2024 – April 28 2024
April 28 Sudan requested an emergency UN Sec Council meeting on UAE aggression. For months the regular army accused the UAEof supporting the RSF…our permanent rep submitted a request for an urgent session…
Columbia/Gaza
Thursday, we saw the most significant arrests of student protesters since 1968. Columbia University, whose president testified in Congress Monday, promising to crack down on pro-Palestinian voices, called in the NYC police to…
U.S. torture regime – finally a trial
The United States of Torture Remember this image from the U.S. prison in Abu Ghraib, Iraq circa 2004? 20 years ago this week, news…
Sudan’s Struggle March 8, 2024 – April 13, 2024
Edited by Carol Dudek from news reports April 13 Sudan’s Liberation Forces Alliance led by Hajar announced withdrawal from the Joint Force of Darfur Armed Movements because the latter decided to end…
Danger of wider war looms, but almost no comment
While most of humanity has, rightly, been outraged at the growing system-caused famine in Gaza and as protests in the wake of IDF killing of the World Central Kitchen humanitarians apparently forced…
Visiting Classrooms in March
March saw We Are Not Your Soldiers visiting a lot of schools, one in Philadelphia and the rest in various boroughs of New York City. Lyle Rubin spoke remotely with four Philly…
The outrage of continuing war crimes
You’ll be forgiven if you think this is an image of Gaza. It’s Mozul, Iraq, a decade ago. The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal just released this video. The bloody destruction of…