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    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media

    'He Didn't Deserve to Die, But...' Writes Pompeo of Dismembered Journalist

    "Astonishing use of 'but' that enables the efforts of the Saudi regime to blame Khashoggi for his own murder," said one journalist.

    Julia Conley
    Jan 23, 2023

    The widow of murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Monday denounced former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his comments about her husband in Pompeo's upcoming memoir, in which he questions Khashoggi's journalism credentials and his allegiances.

    As excerpts from Pompeo's book, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love, became public a day before its publication date, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi told NBC News she wishes she were able "to silence all of these people who publish books, disparage my husband, and collect money from it."

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    A Guantanamo detainee's feet are shackled to the floor

    Guantanamo Is ​Who and What We Are as Americans

    And we should be ashamed to our core.

    Dud Hendrick
    Jan 18, 2023

    For over 20 years, every Monday afternoon, I’ve stood with like-minded concerned citizens on Rt. 15 on Deer Isle, Maine—members of our Island Peace & Justice group—standing in objection and in witness to the acts of our government. Each week, I reflect on just why I am there and each week I arrive unavoidably at the conclusion that the U.S. is the scourge of the planet, a rogue nation.

    Below are a very few of those crimes that come to mind, but are so egregious as to haunt me.

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    A Ukraine soldier silhouetted agains burning fires following Russian invasion in 2022

    Why I Pray This Is My Last Book on the Subject of War

    War unleashes the poison of nationalism, with its twin evils of self-exaltation and bigotry. Backed by shameless cheerleaders, it creates an illusory sense of unity and purpose but leads only to death and misery.

    Chris Hedges
    Oct 25, 2022

    As this century began, I was writing War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, my reflections on two decades as a war correspondent, 15 of them with the New York Times, in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, Bosnia, and Kosovo. I worked in a small, sparsely furnished studio apartment on First Avenue in New York City. The room had a desk, chair, futon, and a couple of bookshelves -- not enough to accommodate my extensive library, leaving piles of books stacked against the wall. The single window overlooked a back alley.

    The super, who lived in the first-floor apartment, smoked prodigious amounts of weed, leaving the grimy lobby stinking of pot. When he found out I was writing a book, he suggested I chronicle his moment of glory during the six days of clashes known as the Stonewall Riots, triggered by a 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village. He claimed he had thrown a trash can through the front window of a police cruiser.

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