Obama’s argument for preventive detention “violates basic American values and is likely unconstitutional,” warned Sen. Russ Feingold in a recent letter to the President, cautioning that detention without trial “is a hallmark of abusive systems that we have historically criticized … Continue reading →

pls watch this video. it’s done in our name… “we need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a … Continue reading →

As of 11:15am, Caracas time, President Zelaya is speaking live on Telesur from San Jose, Costa Rica. He has verified the soldiers entered his residence in the early morning hours, firing guns and threatening to kill him and his family … Continue reading →

TORTURE: Be sure to also read this transcript of Abu Zubaydeh’s description of his experiences while being held in detention in Afghanistan. Writes award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill: “Every US Citizen Should Read This, It Was Done in Your Name.” … Continue reading →

disgusting. “Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to … Continue reading →

RETHINK AFGHANISTAN: Exclusive footage from the recent US airstrikes in Afghanistan provides a sobering look at the dire situation on the ground. The footage will be incorporated in part four of Brave New Foundation’s documentary, “Rethink Afghanistan.”

every american should watch this interview: the attack on dissent (animal rights activism, environmentalism, just being a muslim) under the guise of fighting terrorism. scary. In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist … Continue reading →

Some of the banks should be allowed to die because they are so insolvent and holding so much in toxic assets that they will forever need to be on taxpayer-funded life support. The problem is, this life support is sucking … Continue reading →

ISLAMABAD, June 22 (Reuters) – About 40,000 Pakistanis are on the move even before a military offensive begins in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan, U.N. officials said on Monday, and are headed for communities already stretched to the limit. … Continue reading →

Obama Administration Seeks To Keep Torture Victims From Having Day In Court (6/12/2009) Justice Department Asks Court For Rehearing In Extraordinary Rendition Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org NEW YORK – The Justice Department today … Continue reading →

torture was never just confined to abu ghraib or guantanamo. there has to be some accounting before we can move on. KABUL (AFP) – Former detainees of the Bagram air base in Afghanistan have alleged a catalogue of abuse at … Continue reading →

imran khan on pakistan: when u’re in a hole, stop digging. President Obama asked something like three-quarters of a billion dollars, $736 million, to build a new US embassy, as well as permanent housing for US officials in Islamabad. What … Continue reading →

the taliban chief we were trying to kill “dodged” us. 80 mourners at a funeral, however, got blown to pieces. The head of Pakistan’s Taliban had joined a funeral procession targeted in a suspected U.S. missile strike, but left before … Continue reading →

A US drone aircraft killed at least 45 Pakistani Taliban militants in south Waziristan yesterday when it fired missiles at the funeral of an insurgent commander killed earlier in the day, Pakistani intelligence officials said. Full article.

as obama talks about daal and keema and the pleasures of urdu poetry, the murder of pakistani civilians continues. PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — US missile strikes killed dozens of people in a Pakistani tribal area controlled by Taliban chief Baitullah … Continue reading →

excellent analysis by tariq ali (as usual). he explains how dangerous present american foreign policy is in that part of the world. a coup within the pakistan army – that seems to be what we’re asking for.

what war does to those who are lucky enough to survive. Refugee crisis in Iraq: 1-1.2 million Iraqis have fled across the border into Syria; about 750,000 have crossed into Jordan (increasing its modest population of 5.5 million by 14%); … Continue reading →

to those who say that the pakistani public is largely supportive of a war against the taliban – here is a protest in faisalabad. the large banner reads: “stop the mass murder of the pashtun people, stop this american war!”

It is clear—and has been for a long time— that the Obama administration is radically expanding the US war in Afghanistan deeply into Pakistan. Whether it is through US military trainers (that’s what they were called in Vietnam too), drone … Continue reading →

At age 23, John Lewis, chairman of SNCC, was a veteran of many civil rights battles. On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, he gave one of the major speeches. Though not as well known as Reverend Martin … Continue reading →

brilliant, brilliant interview with howard zinn! we won’t disillusion young people by bringing down conventional american heroes (like columbus and theodore roosevelt). we can introduce them to the real heroes of our history by bringing them out of obscurity – … Continue reading →

The Fort Laramie Treaty once guaranteed the Sioux Nation the right to a large area of their original land, which spanned several states and included their sacred Black Hills, where they were to have “the absolute and undisturbed use and … Continue reading →

The regime has arrested Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, daughter of the former president, who spoke at a pro-Mousavi rally, along with 4 other members of that family. This step is typical of an old Iranian ruling technique, of keeping provincial tribal … Continue reading →

very moving…

“What I think the policies of the Obama administration over the past five months show is that we need independent political movements in this country that cannot and will not allow themselves to be co-opted by the Democratic Party–that don’t … Continue reading →

“In a vote that should go down in recent histories as a day of shame for the Democrats, on Tuesday the House voted to approve another $106 billion dollars for the bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and increasingly Pakistan). … Continue reading →

pankaj mishra on pakistan: “The Obama administration should consider the possibility that, as Graham Fuller, the CIA’s former station chief in Kabul puts it, few Pashtuns “will long maintain a radical and international jihadi perspective once the incitement of the … Continue reading →

A non violent movement turns violent when the Peru govt cracks down on protesters. Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between indigenous people and police in Peru. The Indians have been protesting against laws which will open up … Continue reading →