April 2012

What Bradley Manning Means to Us

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Chase Madar’s new book, The Passion of Bradley Manning, pulls together the essential facts that we should try to somehow deliver to television viewers and victims of our education system.  The subtitle is “The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History.”

The book looks at Manning’s life story, his alleged action (leaking voluminous materials to Wikileaks), the value of the material he made available to us, the status of whistleblowers in read more

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Veteran Disrupts CNN's War Mongering

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Scott Camil, a veteran of the second-longest U.S. war in history, that on Vietnam, radically changed a discussion of the longest war in U.S. history, that on Afghanistan, on CNN on Sunday.

CNN’s Don Lemon tried repeatedly to explain troops posing with body parts as an inscrutable result of war, without questioning the justification of that war.  Repeatedly, Lemon instructed viewers not to judge soldiers. 

A guest to whom Lemon devoted a great deal of time, Dr. Terry Lyles, followed read more

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How Dare Russia

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“Self-purification through suffering is easier, I tell you: easier — than that destiny which you are paving for many of them by wholesale acquittals in court.  You are merely planting cynicism in their souls.” –Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The United States Congress is outraged.  Russia, it seems, may have wrongly imprisoned, tortured, and murdered a whistleblower.  In the land of the free, our good representatives are outraged, I tell you.  And not just I.  read more

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Torture on Trial

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Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture

by: David Swanson
 

Published in the May / June 2012   Humanist

Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped. A boy was hooded with three empty sand bags in 100-degree heat all day, starved, beaten, and kept in stress positions. Alleged suicide victims had their hands tied behind their backs, had boot prints on their heads, or turned out to have been electrocuted. There read more

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Is Peace Getting in the Way of Our War Plans?

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What a bizarre circumstance this is.  The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably. 

The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily.

This past weekend, the United States and other major nations finally spoke with Iran. In 10 hours of talks (or 5 with translations), minus a lunch break, Iran agreed to a framework for ensuring that its nuclear program is only used for civilian purposes. 

If this keeps up, the whole basis for war could be lost.  And it’s read more

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Dahr Jamail: BP Oil Disaster Ongoing After Two Years

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Dahr Jamail has covered the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico for two years.  He reports on massive environmental and economic damage and on oil continuing to enter these damaged waters.  Jamail is based in Doha, Qatar working as an Online News Producer for Al Jazeera English. His stories have also been published with Inter Press Service, Truthout, The Nation, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the Independent.  He’s read more

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Come to Montgomery County Maryland's Annual Spring Peace Banquet

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Saturday, May 19, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville
100 Welsh Park Dr.
Rockville, MD 20850

Join us as we celebrate the local peace community’s work over the past
year at a delicious luncheon catered by Lebanese Taverna.  Vegetarian
options available. Suggested donation: $25.

Program features:

  • Keynote speaker, David Swanson, author, activist and truth teller
  • Presentation of annual Peace Awards to local activists
  • Appearance by members of the awesome MoCo Peace Players

Proceeds benefit the Afghan Women’s Fund, providing literacy, medical, and other services for women and girls in Afghanistan, and Peace Action, the nation’s oldest peace read more

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