The real question is why are we there at all? What do our efforts now have to do with the original authorization of the use of force? We are no longer dealing with anything or anyone involved in the attacks … Continue reading →

New rule: families of suspected militants are fair game. “Youssef Zahri was originally arrested on 28 April 2008. There is no doubt that his arrest was connected with his brother’s activities as a member of Hamas. Based on evidence from … Continue reading →

Pakistan’s Army says it is “determined” to launch an invasion of the region some time soon, a move which the US has been pressuring them to take for years. But many civilians decided they weren’t going to wait. With plenty … Continue reading →

‘Again people have started coming out of the area because of the fear of an army operation,’ Amir Latif, chief administrative official in Tank district, told AFP. ‘We have started registering them and giving them help,’ Hameedullah Khan, a senior … Continue reading →

great presentation by a member of the israeli committee against house demolitions at the flying squirrel in rochester yesterday. check out their website.

As the fighting drags on from one year to the next, the engagement of US forces in armed nation-building projects in distant lands will become the new normalcy. Americans of all ages will come to accept war as a perpetual … Continue reading →

In an unannounced move, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March, The Washington Post reported. Full article.

The government says most attacks in the country — including four big ones over the past week that killed more than 100 people — are plotted in South Waziristan, the main bastion of al-Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban and their allies. Full … Continue reading →

matthis chiroux is an american hero.

most excellent!

Dr. Sima Samar, the physician and activist who survived a fatwa in Afghanistan, is the woman doing the kinds of things Obama is talking about – which is why she deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Full article.

The National Equality March – the birth of a new civil rights movement for LGBT people in the U.S. Time Magazine: 200,000 Attend The Gay March: Will a New Generation’s Protests Be Heard? Full article.

something worth checking out.

Columbus’ stature in U.S. classrooms has declined somewhat through the years, and many districts will not observe his namesake holiday on Monday. Although lessons vary, many teachers are trying to present a more balanced perspective of what happened after Columbus … Continue reading →

Indian governments and the people they represent are requesting that the federal government bring about a National Holiday for Native Americans to be celebrated by all citizens of America and people around the world. This holiday would pay tribute to … Continue reading →

“The cost of my freedom, I am told, is eternal vigilance. I live in the richest country in the world, the nation which monopolizes over a fourth of the earth’s resources, and am still imprisoned when exercising my so-called freedom … Continue reading →

“Celebrating Columbus Is Blasphemy. Celebrate October 12 as Indigenous People’s Day. Maybe we Eurocentric folks can begin to register the extent of harm we have even done to ourselves after our genocide of the Native peoples. This mindset has boomerang … Continue reading →

When I saw this morning’s top New York Times headline — “Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize” — I had the same immediate reaction which I’m certain many others had: this was some kind of bizarre Onion gag that got … Continue reading →

“US troops are occupying two countries: Iraq and Afghanistan. For all the talk, US soldiers remain in Iraq, and their bases are likely to stay there for some time. And the war in Afghanistan continues unabated, with President Obama actually … Continue reading →

“As horrible as the police brutality was on October 7th these actions are small compared to what people of color experience from the police everyday in the city of Rochester and minuscule compared to what the Afghani people have had … Continue reading →

three letters: LOL!!! OSLO – The announcement drew gasps of surprise and cries of too much, too soon. Yet President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday because the judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too … Continue reading →

“This video, “Return of the Warlords”: Afghan Elections Marred by Fraud, Warlord Dominance,” was just produced by my great friend Rick Rowley of BigNoise Films. He is simply the best un-embedded journalist in the field today. If we had a … Continue reading →

Zoya is a member of the radical underground organization Rawa, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. She fled Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion but later returned to her country to document life under Taliban rule. She ha…s been … Continue reading →

As the occupation of Afghanistan enters its ninth year, the antiwar movement here in the United States has organized several actions this week calling for an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dozens of rallies and protests are … Continue reading →

The election sheds a great deal of light on this, of course. Not simply because of the massive fraud in the election, although that’s an indicator of something going on, but it’s relevant because President Hamid Karzai was forced to … Continue reading →

Perhaps more than any other major corporate news outlet, The New York Times played a central role in promoting the Bush administration’s fraudulent case for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The “reporting” of Judith Miller and Michael Gordon basically … Continue reading →

Last week in Pakistan I met a receptionist at the World Food Programme in Islamabad. It was brief – I was presenting myself for an appointment, and I do not know if she was Gulrukh Tahir, one of five people … Continue reading →

cindy sheehan rocks! “A few hundred people massed on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, wearing orange jumpsuits and hoods, holding photos of wounded children or carrying coffins. They chanted antiwar slogans, acted out waterboarding and pretended to die on … Continue reading →

The fierce opposition here is revealing deep strains in the alliance. Even at its current levels, the American presence was fueling a sense of occupation among Pakistani politicians and security officials, said several Pakistani officials, who did not want to … Continue reading →

excellent advice from william polk, expert on counterinsurgency: “Even in the tactical short run, I believe, trying to defeat the Taliban is not in America’s interest. The harder we try, the more likely terrorism will be to increase and spread. … Continue reading →

ISLAMABAD – A suicide bomber who killed five staffers at the U.N. food agency’s headquarters in Pakistan on Monday was dressed as a security officer and allowed to enter the heavily guarded building after he asked to use the bathroom. … Continue reading →

KABUL, Afghanistan — Hundreds of militants attacked American and Afghan troops in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, opening fire on an outpost from multiple locations with rockets, mortars and heavy-caliber machine guns, according to an initial U.S. military report on the … Continue reading →

MY STATEMENT FOR PRESS CONFERENCE My name is Mara Ahmed. I am an activist filmmaker and I found out about Rethink Afghanistan back in April this year when it was featured in The Nation as “Ten things you can do … Continue reading →

the collapsing of terrorism and its melding with poverty as arundhati roy says. my heart goes out to the pakistanis in south waziristan. PESHAWAR: After fighting brief skirmishes against militants, the Pakistan Army plans to unfold in the next few … Continue reading →

John Ging, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, told reporters on Thursday that the number of Gazans considerered “abject poor” had tripled to 300,000 this year, equal to one in five Gazans.Ging described the … Continue reading →