Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court, helped protect the Saudi royal family from lawsuits that sought to hold al Qaeda financiers responsible in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The suits were filed … Continue reading →

Military resistance has been heralded for millennia by the premier scholars, poets, philosophers, scientists and spiritual leaders of humanity. I thought of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian citizen who refused to fight in Hitler’s army. His head was removed after every … Continue reading →

A growing number of military medical professionals believe burn pits are causing a wave of respiratory and other illnesses among troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Found on almost all U.S. bases in the war zones, these open-air trash sites … Continue reading →

It is not too late to learn some lessons from the mistakes of the British in 1842. Then, the British officials in Kabul continued to send out dispatches of delusional optimism as the insurgents moved ever closer to Kabul. Those … Continue reading →

avi lewis interviews arundhati roy – illuminating analysis. pls watch.

can’t wait to see this.

Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and killings of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed … Continue reading →

Pape asserts that “offensive military action rarely works” against terrorism, so, in his view, the solution to the problem of terrorism couldn’t be simpler: withdraw. Pape’s “nationalist theory of suicide terrorism” applies not just to Hamas and Hezbollah but also … Continue reading →

As the media focuses on the fact that the suspect in the failed Times Square bomb plot is a Pakistani Muslim. What about the man who first noticed the smoke rising from the SUV? A street vendor, a Muslim immigrant … Continue reading →

On 27 July 2002 Khadr was shot at least twice in the back, once in the leg and had been blinded in one eye by shrapnel. He was unconscious for almost a week and was near death. Yet by 12 … Continue reading →

some context: “Afghanistan is a country where 70% of the population has never seen a doctor or a nurse in their lives. It is a country where there is no safe water. It is a country where there is malnutrition. … Continue reading →

let’s contextualize: Ali Abunimah takes an in-depth look at the arrest in New York of a Pakistani-American with alleged connections to al-Qaeda. Full interview here.

At the start and at the finish of the Hashmi case, tricks of the theatre have been used to make a human being look terrifying to an audience. By the extreme conditions in which he was restrained, he was made … Continue reading →

Reports are emerging suggesting that secret US military intelligence aircraft were used to find and locate Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of attempting to set off a crude car bomb in Times Square. The CBS affiliate in New York reported … Continue reading →

Mikey Weinstein, whose Military Religious Freedom Foundation originated the protest over Franklin Graham’s involvement in the Pentagon event, said his group doesn’t get involved in issues beyond the armed forces. But he called it an “extremely huge mistake” for any … Continue reading →

Anyone hearing about central India’s ongoing epidemic of farmer suicides, where growers are killing themselves at a terrifying clip, has to be horrified. But among the more disturbed must be the once-grand poobah of post-invasion Iraq, U.S. diplomat L. Paul … Continue reading →

three years in PRE-TRIAL solitary confinement! that’s the reality american muslims face. rather than focus on making fun of prophet muhammad as the key to restoring our civil liberties, how about some good old habeas corpus? Syed Fahad Hashmi has … Continue reading →

“We now believe that Monsanto has control over as much as 90 percent of seed genetics. This level of control is almost unbelievable,” said Neil Harl, agricultural economist at Iowa State University who has studied the seed industry for decades. … Continue reading →

Keith Sadler, 53, a 15 year homeowner at the corner of Broadway and Fremont, decided that enough was enough and no one else had stood up to do something about this and that the loss of his own home was … Continue reading →

Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don’t try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don’t mix. Plutocracy is the rule of the rich – political … Continue reading →

Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand. The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable: the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s … Continue reading →

On April 29, 2010, a “Teach-In on Capitol Hill,” was held in Washington, D.C., dealing with the question of what the U.S. Congress must do to end the U.S. Wars and secure a peaceful Middle East. One of the five … Continue reading →

Peace activists can hasten an end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan by demanding a timetable for U.S. military withdrawal. A bill in the U.S. Congress introduced by Representatives McGovern and Jones, requires such a timetable. In the Senate, a … Continue reading →

“taking sides is very important right now. either you’re with the occupiers, or you’re with the occupied. end of discussion. NO cooperation with war crimes.” (nora barrows-friedman)