by Dennis Loo To the U.S. military, children are now legitimate targets in the “war on terror.” First Item: In response to the U.S. military killing three children, aged 12, 10, and…
Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
For More Than Ten Years the Richest Country in the World Has Been “At War” With the Poorest Country in the World
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Flirtation is the Least of their Crimes
by Debra Sweet One man is at the center of a story you can’t avoid in the media, since last Friday. General David Petraeus, architect of the U.S. “surge” in Iraq, pulled…
Afghanistan: When is “Withdrawal” an “Enduring Presence”?
Dennis Loo | November 14, 2012 The “post-2014 enduring presence.” In May of this year NATO leaders met in Chicago – after making sure that no demonstrators would be allowed to come…
Illusions, US imperialism and Islamic Fundamentalism
You are fooling yourself if you think that that the U.S. does not have the blood of this young girl and millions of other children like her on their hands. by Emma…
Counting the Bodies in the Pakistani Drone Campaign
by Alice K. Ross The US government must release its estimates of how many people are being killed in CIA drone strikes, to end an over-reliance on often scanty media reports, a…
Peace March Against Drones in Pakistan Ends with Rally After Convoy Stopped by Army
by Kevin Gosztola To show solidarity with the people of Waziristan in Pakistan, who have experienced and been victims of US drone strikes, thousands of Pakistanis marched in the Federally Administered Tribal…
Seeing Afghanistan Differently than the Occupiers See It
by Debra Sweet Plans by the U.S. to maintain a Special Forces occupation of Afghanistan until 2024 are being severely tested. But only press from other countries reports what the two main…
Afghans Alarmed at U.S. Plans for Bagram Torture Center
from the International Justice Network New York, NY – On June 4, 2012, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on the growing alarm among Afghans over the unlawful implementation of an administrative detention…
Does Pakistan Have Any Rights the US is Bound to Respect?
From A World to Win News Service War Supply Route Reopened US-Pakistan relations have been very bumpy over the last few years. The US government claims that Pakistan is helping the Taliban…
Amnesty International: Shameless Shill for U.S. Wars
by Ann Wright and Coleen Rowley The new Executive Director of Amnesty International USA (AI) – Suzanne Nossel – is a recent U.S. government insider. So it’s a safe bet that AI’s decision…