Musical interlude continued….

 

war is over if you want it...

 

Check it out below on YouTube. It’s a very moving film, and beautifully animated. It’s only 11 minutes. Share it with friends and family over this holiday season.

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Sean is also using the film to raise money to help kids in conflict zones this holiday season. This has been one of the deadliest times to be a child in this century. Please join me in donating here to War Child to get these kids (in places like Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan) life-saving medical and mental health aid.

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Glass Houses. continued....

THANK YOU WELLS!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/opinion/trump-obama-drone-strikes-illegal.html

To the Editor:

Jeh C. Johnson’s condemnation of the Trump administration’s recent strikes on boats in the Caribbean appears to be either ironic or lacking in self-awareness.

While Mr. Johnson argues that Congress gave “implicit” authorization for the Obama administration’s targeted killings in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia — a claim many national security lawyers like me strongly disagree with — it is undeniable that this policy opened the door to what is playing out now off the coast of Latin America.

For the nearly quarter-century since the attacks of Sept. 11, the public has been primed and conditioned by a “global war on terror” to accept war without end or geographic limitation. The incineration of human beings outside areas of active hostilities, who have not been identified or tied to specific threats, let alone tried or convicted of crimes, has been normalized.

Secret legal opinions conjured by creative executive branch lawyers have twisted both domestic and international law beyond its breaking point in order to authorize torture and warrantless surveillance, and to make murder and assassination legal so long as, the public is told, the victims were bad guys who posed a threat to the United States.

Let’s be clear: Drug traffickers are not terrorists or combatants, the United States is not at war with any country in Latin America and the extrajudicial killing of civilians is always murder. Mr. Johnson is correct to condemn President Trump’s strikes, but his attempt to distinguish and exculpate himself and his Obama administration colleagues rings hollow.

J. Wells Dixon
New York
The writer is a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Happy Human Rights day... support the Guantanamo survivors fund.

 

The Guantánamo survivors fund helps the men who are still living on the edge following their years of illegal detention and torture. If you can help please do.

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Ice is copying the torture techniques used on the men at Guantanamo

 Remember when it came to light that my country was stuffing men in little boxes? How about the complaints of bright lights being left on all night so that the men couldn't sleep?The lack of medical care? The refusal to allow attorneys to visit?

If all of this sounds familiar it is because it is. This again is some of the torture we subjected the men at Guantanamo to.... and now ICE is reportedly using this same torture techniques on the men and women being held at detention centers here in the U.S. of A. 

Read more here. (I think this is a gift link.)

Yes, these too are war crimes- but war crimes are a way of life in this government of mine.