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Ann Wright is a 29-year US Army/Army Reserves veteran, a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Wright was also a passenger on the Challenger 1, which along with the Mavi Marmara, was part of the Gaza flotilla. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December, 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book "Dissent: Voices of Conscience." She has written frequently on rape in the military.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Largest US & NATO Naval Drills in Pacific
We citizens must not let our governments continue confrontation instead of dialogue to resolve national security issues.
SHARE Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Four Hawaii State Legislators Declare "Over Militarization" to Be a Threat to the Security of Hawai'i and the Internatio
In a remarkable twist, four members of the Legislature of the State of Hawai'i are finally challenging the U.S. military in Hawai'i. No doubt using the U.S. Navy's massive jet fuel leak at Red Hill that contaminated the drinking water for over 100,000 residents of O'ahu as an inflection point of deteriorating military and Hawai'i citizen relationships,
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 4, 2022 Please Don't Hate Us For What Our Government Leaders Have Done, Say Russians
..We Didn't Hate You For What Bush Did to Iraq!
As hard as it might be for some, I plead that we not vilify Russians for the actions of their political leaders. I hope that we can be as generous to peace-seeking Russians as the world was to anti-war Americans.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 4, 2022 Tone Deaf Navy Lawsuit Attacks Hawaii's State Lawsuit Over Leaking Fuel Tanks
Tone-Deaf Navy Lawsuit Calls State of Hawai'i Shut Down of Leaking Jet Fuel Tanks as "Erroneous; Arbitrary, Capricious, and an Abuse of Discretion; Clearly Unwarranted" as no "Imminent Peril" Tell That to Its Own Military Families-- No Trust in US Navy
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 26, 2022 For God's Sake Boys, STOP THIS WAR S**T!!!
We've seen this before. The U.S. creates a situation, digs in its heels and makes ultimatums and tens of thousands die.
I resigned from the U.S. government in 2003 in opposition to another war-President Bush's war on Iraq in which followed that war playbook.
SHARE Friday, September 24, 2021 No Aloha for Assassin Drones That Have Arrived in Hawai'i
The world was horrified by Hellfire missile fired from a U.S. military drone that caused the August 29, 2021 deaths of 10 innocent civilians, including seven children, in a family compound in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 6, 2021 The Difficulty and Sometimes Violence of Evacuations
Evacuations of American citizens from crisis countries is always difficult and dangerous, as the past 15 days of evacuation of over 124,000 people from Afghanistan demonstrated.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 23, 2021 Keep the US Embassy in Kabul Open-And Don't Take Revenge on the People of Afghanistan
If the U.S. really cares for the people of Afghanistan, it should keep the U.S. Embassy in Kabul open.
I was on the small U.S. Department of State team that reopened the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in December 2001 and strongly feel that if the U.S. really cares for the people of Afghanistan, it should keep the U.S. Embassy open.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 9, 2021 Military should return Hawaii lands
The 65-year leases of 30,000 acres of Hawaii state land by the U.S. military are ending in 2029. The state of Hawaii should not re-lease these lands no matter what the amount the U.S. military offers.
SHARE Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Golden Rule Peace Boat Sets Sail from Hawai'i for California
The Golden Rule first sailed from California to Hawaii 63 years ago, in 1958, on her way to interfere with U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, the site of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb blasts from 1952 to 1958.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 1, 2021 US Army Corps Of Engineers Permit Big Oil To Dredge Mercury-Contaminated Matagorda Bay
Texas internationally known environmentalist Diane Wilson is on Day 22 of her hunger strike to gain national solidarity and publicity for pressure on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rescind its permit for big oil to dredge a channel in mercury laden Matagorda Bay, Texas.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 29, 2021 In Alarmist Turn, NATO Is Increasingly Positioning Itself in Opposition to China
During the March 23-24 meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) council, Anthony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, encouraged NATO members to join the U.S. in viewing China as an economic and security threat.