If you want to understand why it’s the case that on the one hand the U.S. public and the majority of Congress turned against the war in Afghanistan a long time ago, and yet on the other hand, it’s been so hard to end the war, this week’s warmonger media storm against the diplomatic rescue…
On August 21, U.S. citizen Bradley Manning – now known as Chelsea Manning -was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified information to the public about the killing of civilians in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; drone strikes in Yemen; torture in Guantanamo, Iraq, and Egypt; the coup in Honduras; corruption in Tunisia, the…
On Wednesday, I met with family members of Yemenis detained at Guantanamo. Personally, I think U.S. officials are working to try to repatriate the fifty-six Yemenis in Guantanamo who have been cleared for transfer. But after President Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo didn’t come true, after waiting so long with little information, the families don’t…
Next week, I’m heading to Yemen on a delegation of US peace advocates, where we’ll be meeting Gerald Feierstein, the U.S. Ambassador to Yemen. We’ll urge Ambassador Feierstein to use his influence to end U.S. drone strikes in Yemen—especially “signature strikes” in which the US doesn’t even know who it is targeting—and to ensure that…