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Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → April → 13 → William Ramsey Clark: The U.S. attorney general who fought against U.S. war crimes William Ramsey Clark: The U.S. attorney general who fought against U.S. war crimes William Ramsey Clark, visiting Nandigram, India in November 2007. (photo retrieved from upload.wikimedia.org) “As we painstakingly arouse, organize and mobilize against US Imperialism, we will continue to cherish Ramsey Clark’s spirit of internationalism tha...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Former U.S. attorney general and longtime human rights lawyer Ramsey Clark has died at the age of 93, and we look back on his life. Clark was credited as being a key architect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. He served as attorney general from 1967 to 1969, during which time he ordered a moratorium on federal executions and opposed J. Edgar Hoover’s wiretapping of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., thou...

Remembering Rev. Richard Deats, a life-long peace movement leader and influential teacher of nonviolence A prolific writer and speaker, Rev. Deats strengthened grassroots movements by leading nonviolent action trainings in conflict zones around the world. Rev. Richard Deats, a long-time global peace movement leader and one of the most influential teachers of the philosophy and practice of nonviolent action in 20th century movements, died in Nyack, New York on April 7 from complications related...

Rev. Richard Deats, a long-time global peace movement leader and one of the most influential teachers of the philosophy and practice of nonviolent action in 20th century movements, died in Nyack, New York on April 7 from complications related to pneumonia, according to his son, Mark Deats. He was 89. Rev. Richard Deats (FOR) “As a long-time leader of the global peace movement organization, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and editor of Fellowship magazine, Richard Deats was one of the most ...

In a commentary for NCR, Rebecca Bratten Weiss wrote about Bishop Robert Barrons recent piece that used the term "beige Catholicism" to refer to the faith of liberal or progressive Catholics. Following are letters to the editor responding to that commentary. They have been edited for length and clarity. The fact that a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church refers to any member of the church who is in good standing with their priest by a derogatory name as Bishop Robert Barron does in referring ...

VIETNAM: THE AMERICAN AGONY IAN SCLANDERS THE WAR IN VIETNAM is one that the ordinary American doesn’t like and didn’t expect. He can’t understand how he got into it — Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all assured him he wouldn’t. He wishes that the United States could manage to get out of it without capitulating completely to the Communists or losing face. That was the impression 1 was left with by what I saw and heard recently in New York and Washington, which, beca...

From left to right, Martin Sheen, Mother Teresa and Joe Cosgrove after Mass. The celebrant is on the far right. It was a quarter-century since the beginning of World War II when Pope Paul VI spoke to the U.N. General Assembly and pleaded with the world to leave its violent ways aside and follow the path of peace. “No more war, war never again!” he exclaimed. Another quarter-century later, that message had all but dissolved as war exploded in the Persian Gulf. In response to Iraq’s invasi...

The Capitol rioters stand in stark contrast to the Catonsville Nine. Both broke the law in similar ways, but their views of justice differ greatly.

Courtesy: Raskin Family Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wants to honor Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D-MD 8) late son, Tommy, for Lent and she wants others to join in, too. Wednesday night, AOC, as she is commonly called, said on Twitter that she will adopt a vegetarian diet for Lent in memory of Tommy, who his parents said was a passionate vegan. According to Ocasio-Cortez, Raskin told her, “Well you’d have to do it the way Tommy would, which means bring people along with you!” She asked o...