HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service*

With survival at stake, can weapon makers change course?

Today [6 August], the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer morning following the U.S. 2003 “Shock and Awe” invasion of Iraq when the segment of the Chicago River flowing past the headquarters of the world’s second largest defense contractor, Boeing, turned the rich, red color of blood. 

Another Mother for Peace, Lorraine Schneider, 1966

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen*

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2020 (IPS)* – There is no love lost between the United Nations and US President Donald Trump.

A General Assembly session in a locked down United Nations.

When he addressed the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly in September 2018, Trump falsely told delegates that “in less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country”

The misleading statement triggered loud laughter from world leaders and delegates from 192 countries—perhaps with the sole exception of the US delegation which, not surprisingly, stayed mum.