The film below was recently posted on the Fellowship of Reconciliation Blog by Leila Zand. It appears to have been recently distributed, though the Chemical Weapons attacks visited on Iran and her people are now nearly 30 years in the past. Perhaps the event was triggered by the global discussion around Chemical Weapons attacks in …
October 2013 archive
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Oct 15 2013
Wounds of Waziristan
Last Fall, I met Madiha Tahir in Pakistan when I went there with the CodePink Delegation to meet the victims of U.S. Drone strikes in Waziristan. I have been working with the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and end the Wars to end the Drone Wars for at least 6 years. As long as …
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Oct 12 2013
Chemical Weapons Update
The Nobel Peace Prize, it’s luster dulled by the wars of Barack Obama and the EU, and Henry Kissinger’s lifetime record of supporting massacres, dictators and Israeli exceptionalism, was presented to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons this year. According to Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the award was not …
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Oct 11 2013
Life Under Drones
from The White Rose Reader: An Interview with Madiha Tahir by Paul Gottinger
Madiha Tahir is an independent journalist working in Pakistan. She is also a student in the United States. I met Madiha when she traveled with the CodePink Peace Delegation in Pakistan, of which I was a member. Madiha is a dedicated researcher …
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Oct 09 2013
Reports From The War Zone
I’m posting below the videos of Kathy Kelly, Buddy Bell and Cathy Breen presenting at the Flying Squirrel Community Space. They bring us the reality that we have bestowed on other peoples through our imperialist wars and occupations in their countries.
They have with them a ‘Bean Poll’. Two jars, labeled “Pentagon, Continued War” and …
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Oct 07 2013
A Self Immolation and the Death of Resistance (Updated)
This morning, I was paging through the local Democrat and Chronicle, when I noticed a small article at the bottom of page 4, that is, the backside of page 3. The article said that a man had poured a can of gasoline over his clothes and set himself on fire in the grassy mall in …
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