Kathy Kelly | Building Trust in Afghanistan
What has brought a non-violent future closer to Afghanistan – giant sized military and surveillance systems or the accomplishments of young volunteers working to develop inter-ethnic projects?
John Pilger interviewed on the US election’s silent issue
John Pilger describes the dangers of confrontation between the United States and Russia, and between the US and China, and how a 'conspiracy of silence' has excluded vital debate from the US election campaign
Smart Power and “The Human Rights Industrial Complex”
The problem is both systemic and institutional in nature. As a result, many of the western world’s leading human rights organizations based in North America and Europe have become mirror reflections of a western foreign policy agenda and have become virtual clearing houses for interventionist propaganda.
Iraqi Voices | Iraqi Art Project: Iraqi’s in Minnesota (Short Videos)
In Their Own Voices: A series of short videos by and of Iraqi's in Minnesota, sponsored by the Iraq and American Reconciliation Project and filmed in 2012 through 2014. https://youtu.be/uRjwy5RsPww https://youtu.be/rgbAW5OscnM https://youtu.be/jGxsJyursXM https://youtu.be/1KLq57_KUPc Media for the people! Bringing you the best of the alternative media and original articles and videos. Click More
From the Heartland to Jihad: How a group of young men from Minnesota were drawn into ISIL’s campaign of terror
This story, from September of 2015, provides background on the young Somali men entrapped by the FBI. Three, who have refused to accept a plea bargain, are currently on trial at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis.
Viet Con — by the inimitable Mr. Fish
and because you've shown good will to the United States in the years since we invaded and occupied your country, slaughtered more than 3 million of your people...
Kennedy, Bush, Sanders, And The Organization. — THE ONENESS of HUMANITY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU3FcEdCl0w By Jerry Alatalo “The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used – we cannot accept the idea of such a monstrosity… The time has now come for the nations of the world to submit to the just requisition of their conduct by international More
NSA Closely Involved in Guantanamo Interrogations, Documents Show
The NSA documents made explicit reference to the CIA working on interrogations at Guantánamo.
Tomgram | Peter Van Buren, The Snapchat Version of American Victory: Poof It’s Forgotten
Despite the estimated $26 billion the U.S. spent training and equipping that military between 2003 and 2011, whole units broke, shed their uniforms, ditched their American equipment, and fled when faced with relatively small numbers of ISIS militants in June 2014, abandoning four northern cities, including Mosul. This, of course, created the need for yet more training, the ostensible role of many of the U.S. troops now in Iraq.
Noam Chomsky on US Presence in Europe and Edward Snowden
Why are circa 44,660 US troops and 170 military installations stationed in Germany? What historical decisions are tied to US military presence in Europe & Germany ? Why doesn’t Germany grant Edward Snowden the right to asylum?
Jeremy Scahill Outlines How Obama Made Assassination Formal US Policy
I’m a white guy, and I am a journalist. I would often see Arabs and other Muslims in the detention center at JFK airport, Area B of JFK airport. I would often come in and see a room packed with people, none of whom were white. I would be called up to the desk before them, and I would be released after them.
Review|Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results,