…on at the centre of power is the arms industry. In more positive news, anti-Israeli drone company activists (the Elbit 9) were acquitted for their rooftop protests against an Elbit subsidiary in the UK. How helpful are these kind of targeted BDS activities? IP: Very useful. They add to the accumulative affect that proves that not only is the BDS a movement that allows people to show their rejection to the Israeli policies in a very active way, but…

…ws. Adding salt to the wound, the teacher even failed Zekerullah in the mid-year exams, though Zekerullah said he knew the answers and had no trouble finishing the exam. I asked him what other students thought about his choices. He said that some of them wanted to spare him from being punished, and so they began to study more and complete their homework. He isn’t sure what impact his actions have had. Zekerullah isn’t inclined to brag. But he sure…

…ces at the hospital’s emergency room and intensive care unit, killing forty-two people. Thirty-seven additional people were injured. “Our patients burned in their beds,” read the organization’s in-depth report. “Our medical staff were decapitated or lost limbs. Others were shot from the air while they fled the burning building.” The horrific attack outraged war resisters and human rights groups. I remember joining a group of activists in upstate N…

…ssue of the New York Review of Books quoted three officers, two of them non-commissioned, stationed with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Mercury in Iraq. Speaking on condition of anonymity, they described in multiple interviews with Human Rights Watch how their battalion in 2003-2004 routinely used physical and mental torture as a means of intelligence gathering and for stress relief… Detainees in Iraq were c…

…four years or younger. The antiwar movement tends to demobilize when a well-spoken Democrat is in office.   Trump’s victory hinged on the Democrats’ refusal to offer more than token resistance to militarism and rising inequality. To successfully organize against Trumpism, we must move toward making actual changes in the lives of those who are most vulnerable and unprotected, especially among the poorest people in our societies. Dr. Martin Luther K…

…Glover, 1991, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Pimlico.   Robert Higgs, ‘How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor’, 7 December, 2012, Mises Institute, https://mises.org/library/how-us-economic-warfare-provoked-japans-attack-pearl-harbor   Mark Weber, ‘Was Hiroshima Necessary? Why the Atomic Bombings Could Have Been Avoided’, The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1997, Vol. 16, No. 3, pages 4-11….

…the mega-wealthy are buying passports as status symbols. These offer “visa-free access to a huge number of countries,” including, of course, Britain. In the UK, £2m can buy you a tier-one visa, granting a three-year residency.   Meanwhile, back in the land of the barely living, the Home Office under Elmer Fudd unlawfully wrote to a hundred EU nationals living in the UK threatening them with deportation and telling them to prepare to leave. This s…

…vents it from running.   Microsoft and Apple have the monopoly.   Others recommend downloading or running even more programmes in addition to Never 10, such as GWX control panel. Their rationale is extra protection. I can’t vouch for that, but Never 10 seems to have helped us so far.   It’s incredible that we as consumers have to go to such lengths to prevent what amount to cyber-attacks by a huge corporation on our private property. Microsoft has…

…any conflict but making peace only more elusive. In Ukraine today, Turkish-made TB-2 drones are in the fight on Ukraine’s side and Russia is deploying Iranian-made Shahed 136 drones, in a conflict that threatens to escalate into a nuclear war. We have been invited here to protest drones, but this month is the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it is fitting that we mark that occasion here today. The 20th Attack Squadron here is act…

…o survive ear-splitting blasts and sickening thuds. A lively, engaging nine-year-old girl completely lost control over her bladder. Toddlers devised games to mimic the sounds of bombs and pretended to use small flashlights as guns.           Our team visited hospital wards where maimed children moaned as they recovered from surgeries. I remember sitting on a bench outside of an emergency room. Next to me, a woman convulsed in sobs asking, “How wil…