Kathy Kelly: I am an Eyewitness to the Horrors of the US Forever Wars
Mainstream media seldom help us recognize ourselves as a menacing, warrior nation. Yet we must look in the mirror held up by historical circumstances if we’re ever to accomplish credible change.
Doug Anderson: Landays
Now I have given away all my rage.
Watch the young stride ahead of me into their own mistakes.
Ramsha Ashraf: For the One Who Died in the Hands of Wrong Men
Friends were those
Who made her dance naked
with flower-bands around her wrists
Ramsha Ashraf: We were the daughters
we were the daughters
of the witches
who could set fire to skeletons
James A. Lucas: US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II
After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time … Continue reading
Ken Silverstein: How America tortured and murdered an innocent man
In 2002, Matthew Zirbel, a junior CIA officer, was in charge of the Salt Pit, a “black site” in Afghanistan referred to in the recent Senate torture report as “Cobalt,” … Continue reading
