Under Iraq’s new laws, the electoral system has been jiggled to ensure that no single party can win power. There has got to be a coalition, an alliance among whomever of the 6,000 candidates from 86 parties gain seats in … Continue reading →

She added that while many people would view the violence in a religious context, people she had spoken to said the violence was about indigenous groups, who are mainly Christian, and migrants and settlers, mainly from the Hausa-speaking Muslim north, … Continue reading →

to those who think that we have no option but war – listen to greg mortenson.

“during the obama presidential campaign, the use of muslim identity as a slur and form of innuendo was as vicious as any anti-semitic whispering campaigns found in troubled parts of eastern europe.”

Into the humanitarian vacuum have stepped everyday citizens, especially peasant organizations in areas now flooded with thousands of survivors. They are acting in a long national tradition of solidarity. Full article.

washington times, feb 22, 2010: Mr. Gage, who is a member of the American Institute of Architects, managed to persuade more than 1,000 of his peers to sign a new petition requesting a formal inquiry. “The official Federal Emergency Management … Continue reading →

john yoo = war criminal. The day we go into year eight in the illegal occupation of Iraq that Yoo and Jay Bybee provided “legal” justification for, this “legalizer” of torture and other war crimes will be speaking at a … Continue reading →

watch the full documentary online here – my comments below: altho the state of public education in pakistan is worrisome, calling it a “ticking time bomb” creates the kind of rhetorical bias and fear-based cultural knee-jerk reaction which have made … Continue reading →

The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays started his business life as a publicist. While still in his twenties, he was part of the propaganda effort that drove the United States into in World War I. He personally advised several … Continue reading →

“Forgive an outsider and staunch atheist like myself who, on reading the recent French press comments relating to Ilhem Moussaid the hijab-wearing NPA candidate in Avignon, gets the impression that something is rotten in French political culture. Let’s take the … Continue reading →

“Media reports indicate that 27 civilians were killed, including women and children and many more were injured,” Kucinich’s press release notes, adding, “The U.S. government has an obligation to protect civilians under international law. As Secretary of Defense, you have … Continue reading →

We have no problem condemning atrocities done to women abroad, yet too many of us in the United States ignore the oppression on our doorstep. We’re suffering under the mass delusion that women in America have achieved equality. Full article.

Our debt to Haiti stems from four main sources: slavery, the US occupation, dictatorship and climate change. These claims are not fantastical, nor are they merely rhetorical. They rest on multiple violations of legal norms and agreements. Full article.

Late on the evening of June 9 that year, three prisoners at Guantánamo died suddenly and violently. As news of the deaths emerged the following day, the camp quickly went into lockdown. The authorities ordered nearly all the reporters at … Continue reading →

how our awful wars affect us.

awful, awful, awful… Nato confirmed that it fired on Sunday on a group of vehicles that it believed contained fighters, only to discover later that women and children were in the cars. Full article.

“My worry is that younger people who do not find the mosque a satisfying experience, and women who find it a hostile environment, will drift away from the mosque,” said Abdullahi An-Na’im, a specialist in Islamic law at Emory University … Continue reading →

Pls join us in writing to NATO Command to let them know that if they continue to kill Afghan babies and children, they will only create more terrorists. An apology alone won’t appease those who have suffered such profound loss. … Continue reading →

Coalition forces and the Afghan government are low-balling the number of families driven out of their homes by fighting in Helmand province and are failing to provide them with adequate care, an Afghanistan human rights advocate says. Full article.

Ilham Moussaid, a 21-year-old Muslim woman who describes herself as “feminist, secular and veiled”, is running for the far-left New Anti-Capitalist party (NPA) in the south-eastern region of Avignon. But, despite her insistence that there is no contradiction between her … Continue reading →

A village elder in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. As the US mounts attacks in Helmand province and the civilian death toll rises, the rest of the country braces itself for more US military involvement. Full article.

the 1980 summer olympics were boycotted in protest of the soviet union’s invasion and occupation of afghanistan. thrity years later, it is the united states, canada and other NATO countries that are occupying afghanistan. instead of a boycott, the vancouver … Continue reading →

The largely mythical US success in Iraq is now to be replicated in Afghan towns like Marjah and skirmishes there will be heavily reported. A NATO spokesman says the people of the town will soon “feel the benefits of better … Continue reading →

Some of the biggest military operations are underway in Afghanistan soon, and officials say civilian casualties are “inevitable.” Worse than that callousness is an indifferent media that’ll ignore the death and injury of noncombatants.