Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright
Ann Wright is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official.
She was one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
Since that time Colonel Wright has been a dedicated peace activist.
Ann can be reached at annw1946@gmail.com.
On March 19, 2003, I resigned from the U.S. Department of State. I was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, and the third U.S. government employee to resign in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq.
I resigned on the day the Bush...
Last week I was in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to observe and learn from those who have attempted to protect members of their community from the brutal assaults by ICE and other government agencies and hold those agencies accountable for the violence they are wreaking on the community.
ICE in Minneapolis—From Surge...
I came back from Cuba over last weekend, where I had not been for a year.
Despite the warnings from the U.S. State Department and Marco Rubio, now is the time for U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba in solidarity with the Cuban people against the latest U.S. aggressions in the...
I have been in Washington, D.C., for the past week battling the icy and snow-piled sidewalks and streets one week after the big snow and ice storm that immobilized the city for days.
While using the city’s buses and rail, it was apparent that the most probable danger in D.C....
Guantánamo Naval Base Also Used for Migrant Detentions in 2025
On January 11, 2026, thousands of citizens of many countries held vigils for the 15 men still in the U.S. military prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo, Cuba.
As these citizens have been doing for more than two decades,...
Seven years ago, then U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard wrote on Twitter: "The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders—so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”
Now, as Director of National Intelligence in...
The 18 national campaigns of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, International Campaign to Break the Siege, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and United States) met in Dublin, Ireland, December 5-7, 2025, to plan for many...
For the third time in five months, drones carrying explosives have attacked boats in the Gaza flotillas. I was in Tunis when the Familia and Alma ships were attacked by drones carrying explosives.
On the evening of September 8, an explosive dropped from a drone hit Familia,” the lead ship of the Global...
On the 80th Year Commemoration of Deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki From U.S. Atomic Weapons
In early August, I was in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I also...
Dedicated peace activists are committed to abolishing nuclear weapons amidst looming threat of nuclear war
Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the 2025 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
I bring you greetings and solidarity from civil society movements in the U.S. which have been working diligently for...
