May 13, 2011 One of the memorable images of the Vietnam war era was a news photo of hard-hatted construction workers beating up peace demonstrators near a New York construction site. The AFL-CIO was one of the leading supporters of the war. Although by the late 1960s working class communities prompted in part by… Read More »
REPORT FINDS EVIDENCE OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION
June 8, 2010 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Experimentation on captive prisoners? Conducted by doctors? On orders from the US government? Some of this evidence has already emerged. A report leaked in April from the International Committee of the Red Cross suggested that health professionals had been involved in some way with interrogations of… Read More »
EHREN WATADA: FREE AT LAST
October 29, 2009 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher On June 7, 2006, a 28-year-old Army lieutenant named Ehren Watada released a video press statement announcing that he was refusing to deploy to Iraq because the Iraq War was illegal and his “participation would make me party to war crimes.” After three years… Read More »
THE TRIALS OF EHRENN WATADA
May 19, 2009 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher As Americans are inundated with revelations about the lies, torture and other crimes that accompanied the US-led war in Iraq, many who resisted continue to be punished for refusing to participate in those crimes. First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned military officer to refuse… Read More »
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