Articles by Nicole Colson
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Prescribing Crisis: Overwhelmed by a Sea of Despair
Nicole Colson | Socialist Worker – Jacobin Magazine,
10 Apr 2017
A profit-hungry pharmaceutical industry and an indifferent political class are fueling the deadly opioid epidemic.
→ read full articleTorturing Hunger Strikers at Guantánamo
Nicole Colson - Socialist Worker,
8 Apr 2013
The hunger strike involving dozens of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is a desperate protest against the atrocious conditions they face. You won’t hear much about it from the mainstream media, but detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantánamo Bay have been on hunger strike for weeks–and their U.S. captors, commanded by Barack Obama, have responded with brutal retaliation.
→ read full articleBombing Gaza “Back to the Middle Ages”
Nicole Colson – Socialist Worker,
26 Nov 2012
Israel’s Slaughter in Gaza–And the Lies Used to Justify It – Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai proudly proclaimed, “We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure, including roads and water.” Israel is raining death and destruction from the skies on the people of Gaza.
→ read full articleMarching For a World without War and Poverty
Nicole Colson – Socialist Worker,
28 May 2012
NATO Chicago summit: the mobilization from around the country to send a message of resistance against the world leaders responsible for war and austerity. Some 15,000 protesters took to the Chicago streets on a sweltering Sunday [20 May 2012] in the culmination of a week of protests against the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
→ read full articleThe Unraveling Occupation
Nicole Colson – Socialist Worker,
16 Apr 2012
After 10 years, it’s long past time for ordinary Afghans to be able to decide their own fate–without the interference of the U.S. and NATO. As long as the U.S. military remains, Afghanistan cannot be free.
→ read full articlePersecuted By the National Security State
Nicole Colson – Socialist Worker,
19 Dec 2011
AFTER MORE than a year and a half behind bars, Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old U.S. soldier accused of leaking classified information to the muckraking website WikiLeaks, will face a court date on December 16 in Fort Meade, Md. Manning supporters point out that if he released documents that exposed the real aims and actions of the U.S. war machine he should be seen as a hero–not a criminal. As Daniel Ellsberg, the former Pentagon analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War said, the young soldier is “unreservedly a hero…I think Bradley Manning, if he is found to have been the source of this, will deserve our thanks and certainly has my admiration.
→ read full articleTwo Weeks to Stop the Murder of Troy Davis
Nicole Colson – Socialist Worker,
12 Sep 2011
The state of Georgia is attempting to execute an innocent man–again. He was convicted largely based on the testimony of eyewitnesses, but seven of the nine witnesses who testified against Troy at his original trial have since recanted, with several saying they were coerced by police into falsely identifying Troy as the man who shot MacPhail.
→ read full articleEscalation of a “Humanitarian” War
Nicole Colson & Alan Maass – Socialist Worker,
9 May 2011
THE U.S.-led military operation in Libya has morphed from the initial imposition of a “no-fly zone,” ostensibly to prevent Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime from carrying out a massacre, into an ongoing bombing campaign with no end in sight–and now there’s increasing talk of the use of ground forces until Qaddafi is overthrown and a new government, no doubt Western-approved, takes his place. This transformation of the aims of the intervention–often called “mission creep”–helps to further expose the deception that “humanitarian” concerns is motivating the U.S. or its European allies.
→ read full articleTorturing Bradley Manning
Nicole Colson – Socialist Worker,
14 Mar 2011
The humiliations to which accused whistleblower Bradley Manning is being subjected while in military custody–and the new charges he faces.
→ read full articleThe War on WikiLeaks
Nicole Colson – Socialist Worker,
8 Nov 2010
The latest secrets revealed by WikiLeaks show the terrible legacy of the U.S. war on Iraq–but U.S. political leaders are trying to shoot the messenger.
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