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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Arun Mitra |Ann Wright |Medea Benjamin |Nagesh Chaudhari
Introduction Pacifism as a concept emerged during the 19th century. It is the philosophy of renunciation of war and the complete opposition to it under all conditions. We must try to understand the backdrop to the emergence of such a philosophy and why it emerged only during the 19th century. It evolved through the writings of John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
laprogressive.com | Ann Wright |Rob Maurer
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2025, the U.S. government remembrance is without one word about the ongoing Israeli and U.S. Genocide of GazaOn January 24, 2025, the Veterans Administration of the Pacific region sent out a notice to all veterans registered in the Pacific region to not forget Holocaust Remembrance Day. Not surprisingly, the email did not say one word about the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, nor U.S. complicity in that genocide.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
laprogressive.com | Ann Wright |Rob Maurer
Why I will protest the nomination of Fox News commentator and Trump’s Buddy Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of DefenseOn January 14 at 9:30 a.m., the Fox News commentator and Army National Guard Major Pete Hegseth is scheduled to be questioned by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee in a confirmation hearing on President-elect Trump’s nomination for him to be Secretary of Defense.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Ann Wright
Above photo: Linda Thomas Greefield cooking Thanksgiving Turkey. As we in the United States sat down to Thanksgiving dinners, Palestinians in Gaza on Day 419 of the Israeli genocide of Gaza and U.S. complicity in that genocide are facing starvation, lack of water, tents purposefully destroyed by U.S. bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes and drones and rain and cold from the winter storms. Here in the U.S. families are enjoying meals prepared by mothers and wives.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Ann Wright |Rob Maurer
As a retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel with 13 years on active duty and 16 in the Reserves, I became interested in the topic of women involved in prisoner abuses when so many U.S. women at all levels were linked to the prisons or prisoners in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Cuba, and Iraq.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Ann Wright |Rob Maurer
The legislation would take away the tax-exempt status from nonprofit organizations by designating them as “terrorist supporting organizations.“ While the first version of H.R. 9495 targeting pro-Palestinian nonprofits was defeated in the US House of Representatives on November 12, with 256 voting in favor of the bill and 145 opposed, this week the bill will be brought back under a procedural ploy in which only a simple majority is needed to pass the bill instead of the two-thirds majority...
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Ranjan Solomon |Brett Wilkins |Ann Wright
Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has published a report accusing Israel of carrying out the “deliberate starvation” of the Palestinians in Gaza as a means of exterminating them and annexing their land. “Israel has engaged in an intentional starvation campaign against the Palestinian people, which evidences genocide and extermination,” Fakhri said in his report. Why is this happening? This about land. In 2023, Isr.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ranjan Solomon |Andre Damon |Brett Wilkins |Ann Wright
In 2023, Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in the City of New York wrote, and very sharply, that “{the reason Zionists have the full support of European and US leaders is because the genocidal drive to ‘exterminate all the brutes’ is embedded deep in their psyches.” As millions of Palestinians trapped in Gaza were facing starvation and mass murder, Israel’s invading army made sure to film themselves enjoying...
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Brett Wilkins |Ann Wright |Bharat Dogra |Julia Conley
Israeli officials are lobbying U.S. lawmakers to pressure South Africa into dropping its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, according to a report published Monday.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ann Wright |Brett Wilkins |Bharat Dogra |Julia Conley
As someone who spent 29 years in the U.S. Army, I know the Israeli military knows the names of all of its snipers, just as the U.S. military knows the names of those who have been trained as U.S. snipers and who killed Afghans and Iraqis in the past decades. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was working to “gather the facts” about U.S. citizen Aysenur Eygi’s killing by Israel military forces.
