For immediate release, Thursday April 25, 11:30pm. The Freedom Flotilla is ready to sail. All the required paperwork has been submitted to the port authority, and the cargo has been loaded and prepared for the trip to Gaza. However, today we received word of an...
The Gaza Flotilla To Set Sail While Blinken Attempts To Take Focus From Israeli/US Genocide of Gaza
While I am in Istanbul, Turkiye with hundreds of international participants from 40 countries who are attempting to sail in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla to break the illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and bring food and medicine to starving Palestinians in Gaza, the...
Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves To Stop a War?
Six years ago in 2018, after returning from a Veterans For Peace trip to Vietnam, I wrote an article called “Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?” Now, six years later, in the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or...
International Campaign To Send Ships With Relief Assistance for Gaza
The horrific 49-day Israeli attack on the civilian population of Gaza continues with over 15,000 Palestinians dead, including over 6,150 children and more than 36,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip. Virtually all of the 2.3 million residents of Gaza have been forced into...
Navy Fails to Hold Officers Accountable Red Hill Toxic Fuel Spill Disaster
Almost two years after the Navy’s massive jet fuel spill from the 80-year-old Red Hill underground fuel tank facility and one month before the October 16, 2023 defueling begins of the 104 million gallons remaining in 14 of the 20 massive fuel tanks, Secretary of the...
US Military Must Remove Fuel From Massive Red Hill Underground Fuel Tanks
“Repacking” of 3.5 miles of U.S. Military Red Hill Fuel Pipes in Hawaii Begins with October 16, 2023 as the Target Date to Begin “Defueling” the angerous Underground Tanks U.S. Military Now Has New Capacity to Store Above Ground 104 million gallons of fuel that Must...
Knives Are Out Again for Those Advocating For Peace on the Korean Peninsula
The knives are out again for those advocating for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Almost eight years to the day, I wrote "The Knives are Out For Those Who Challenge Militarization of the Korean Peninsula," about Washington Beltway pundits and those on the...
Why There Should be a Treaty Against the Use of Weaponized Drones
Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible. Citizens have successfully pushed through the United Nations General Assembly treaties to abolish nuclear weapons and to ban the use of landmines and...
Gaza Freedom Flotilla To Sail in 2023 To Challenge the Illegal, Immoral and Inhuman Israeli Blockade of Gaza
After a pause due to the global pandemic, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) is set to resume its sailing to challenge the illegal, immoral and inhuman Israeli blockade of Gaza. The last sailing of the flotilla was in 2018. The 2020 sail was postponed due...
Many Military and Civilian Families in Hawaii Felt Ill Prior to the November 2021 Red Hill Leak… and Here’s Why
Many military and civilian families living on military bases around Pearl Harbor, Hawaii have been outspoken that they felt ill before the November 2021 massive Red Hill jet fuel leak…and they were right! Recently released data shows that their water was contaminated...