L.A. protests led demonstrations across the country against Trump and his aggressive immigration policy Saturday, while in D.C. veterans and other citizens protested Trump’s military parade, Joe Lauria & Ann Wright report.
“Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy” — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates.
Considering the horrific history of sexual assault in the U.S. military, Ann Wright says her primary concern is the Trump nominee’s record of violence toward women. But there are other red flags as well.
Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. airman who burned himself to death to protest the Gaza genocide, was awarded the 2024 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence in memoriam on Saturday.
Ann Wright on the arms flowing between members of the military alliance and Israel, which despite its small size, ranks as the 15th top weapons importer in the world.
One-third of the countries joining RIMPAC’s maneuvers in the Pacific this summer are not from Asia and the Pacific, says Ann Wright. They are from Europe and are all members of NATO.
In the wake of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation, Ann Wright recalls other suicides committed in protest against U.S. policies, including by five Americans opposed to the U.S. war in Vietnam.