“Bush May Be Gone, But “Psychosis” of U.S. Foreign Policy Prevails” On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the global justice activist and author Arundhati Roy joins us to discuss the war’s legacy. Roy is the author of many books, including “The God of Small Things,” “Walking with the Comrades,” [...]

Ten years ago today, Iraqis braced themselves for the anticipated “Shock and Awe” attacks that the United States was planning to launch against them. The media buildup for the attack assured Iraqis that barbarous assaults were looming. I was living in Baghdad at the time, along with other Voices in the Wilderness activists determined to [...]

Video: La Bitácora de Stella Chinchilla Entre los días 13 al 15 de marzo, una delegación de SOA Watch (Observatorio de la Escuela de las Américas) visita Costa Rica con el apoyo del Centro de Amigos para la Paz.

After Newtown: Turning Schools Into Prisons Outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre may or may not spur any meaningful gun control laws, but you can bet your Crayolas that it will lead to more seven-year-olds getting handcuffed and hauled away to local police precincts.

De cómo Latinoamérica se ha convertido en la única zona libre de gulags estadounidenses dedicados a torturar por todo el planeta El mapa nos revela la historia. Para ilustrar un nuevo informe incriminatorio: “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detentions and Extraordinary Rendition” [Globalizando la tortura: las detenciones secretas y las entregas extraordinarias de la CIA], recientemente publicado [...]

  “Tomamos las armas para abrir paso a un mundo en el que ya no sean necesarios los ejércitos”. Subcomandante Marcos Está claro: un zapatero arregla zapatos, una enfermera cuida de los enfermos, una azafata atiende a los pasajeros en vuelo y un músico alegra el espíritu con la música. ¿Cuál es la función específica de un militar? [...]

Se cumplen diez años del “no a la guerra” en Irak. La jornada de protesta global antiguerra del 15 de febrero (15F) del 2003, que logró  sacar a la calle entre 8 y 13 millones de personas en todo el mundo, celebra hoy una década. The New York Times llegó a decir, a raíz de [...]

“War’s lingering phantoms haunt every society.” As two hellish, costly and needless wars struggle toward collapse, this is the time — now, right this minute, before the next false alarm goes off — for us to look honestly at the cost and quality of national security based on militarism. It’s time to squeeze the romance out [...]

Congress waited six years to repeal the Tonkin Gulf Resolution after it opened the bloody floodgates for the Vietnam War in August 1964. If that seems slow, consider the continuing failure of Congress to repeal the “war on terror” resolution—the Authorization for Use of Military Force—that sailed through, with just one dissenting vote, three days after [...]

How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth The map tells the story.  To illustrate a damning new report, “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detentions and Extraordinary Rendition,” recently published by the Open Society Institute, the Washington Post put together an equally damning graphic: it’s soaked in red, as if [...]