AlJazeeraEnglish | August 31, 2010 We mark the International Day of the Disappeared and ask: What is being done to end forced disappearances, and what will it take to get justice? See also: International Day of the Disappeared
Category: International
Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2010
By Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor, The City of Hiroshima, August 6, 2010 In the company of hibakusha who, on this day 65 years ago, were hurled, without understanding why, into a “hell” beyond their most terrifying nightmares and yet somehow managed…
Israel’s Public Relations War
TheRealNews | August 03, 2010 Escalating criticism of Israel led its security establishment to declare a PR war on “delegitimization.” For additional analysis, see the RealNews series entitled Who benefits from Israeli occupation? Palestinian filmmaking culture grows from NGO project…
Guantánamo is now Obama’s kangaroo court
Photo: Allan Lissner Obama Bravely Takes on a Tortured Child Soldier Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama’s Gitmo By Chase Madar, Counterpunch, July 30-August 1, 2010 President Obama may lack the nerve to stare down Liz Cheney or Bibi…
Resistance to militarization in Costa Rica
Costa Rican Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Entry of US Military Civil Society Is Organizing to Maintain the Country’s Status as a Nation Without Armed Forces By Jamie Way, Narco News Bulletin, July 28, 2010 The Costa Rican Supreme Court last…
The Afghanistan War Logs
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation By Nick Davies and David Leigh, guardian.co.uk, July 25, 2010 A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in…
Universal Soldier
bellvisuals | March 24, 2008: Buffy Sainte-Marie performed for Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans against the war in front of the Capital and Native American Museum in Washington DC on the five year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
UK anti-war activists face eviction
Al Jazeera English, July 02, 2010 Peace demonstrators who have been camping outside the British parliament since May are facing forced eviction on Friday. A court ruled they are damaging the famous square outside the building, but the activists have…
Merging with Rachel Corrie – A Dedication to Non-violence
by Matthias Chang, Global Research, June 16, 2010 Sailing on MV Rachel Corrie has changed my life and my perspective on many issues that I hold dear. I am humbled by the experience and have learned so much from everyone…
Afghanistan’s mineral riches and the war
TheRealNews: Did a 2007 report of massive mineral deposits in Afghanistan affect President Obama’s 2009 decision to widen the scope of the Afghan war? Afghanistan claims mineral wealth is worth $3 trillion By Ben Farmer, The Telegraph, June 17, 2010…