by Glen Greenwald In February, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism documented that after the U.S. kills people with drones in Pakistan, it then targets for death those who show up at the scene to rescue…
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
Find out more about covert drone warfare and the unjust, immoral occupation of Afghanistan:
Another Afghan Family Extinguished by a NATO Airstrike
by Glenn Greenwald The Authoritarian MInd Yesterday, I wrote about the rotted workings of the Imperial Mind, but today presents a tragic occasion to examine its close, indispensable cousin: the Authoritarian Mind….
Obama’s Civil War Scenario for Afghanistan
by Chris Floyd "The winds in Chicago Have torn me to shreds; Reality has always Had too many heads." — Bob Dylan, "Cold Irons Bound" So now we know the grand plan…
“Money for Jobs Not for War”— American Chauvinism + Reformist Illusions
by Larry Everest “Money for Jobs and Education! Jobs and Education, Not War and Occupation!” This is the slogan the ANSWER Coalition is raising this month at the forthcoming anti-NATO protests in…
Leaving Afghanistan by Staying
by David Swanson Is staying in Afghanistan OK with you as long as we call it leaving? President Obama has signed an agreement with President Karzai to keep a major U.S. military…
Male Bonding—Military Massacres By The Book
by Kathleen Barry For two weeks after the March 11, 2012 Afghan massacre, its 17 dead victims and several wounded were anonymous to the world. Americans read daily about their alleged killer,…
Afghan Witnesses to the Bales Massacre Speak Out
Report by the Australian TV Show Dateline; appeared March 27, 2012. Click here to watch on Dateline’s website.
Afghans Call for Solidarity in Action
Communities in Oakland have been struggling against police violence, surveillance, criminalization, and incarceration for generations. Police here are becoming more and more militarized daily, there are joint trainings between local police, the…
The Systemic Atrocity of Afghanistan’s Occupation
Is there a morally significant difference between murder, like the Panjwai massacre, and collateral damage? Ask Afghan civilians by Ross Caputi The death of innocent civilians is nothing new in Afghanistan, but…
How the U.S. Military Spawns Massacres and Daily Acts of Depravity
The problem begins with the depravity of the U.S. military in its mission, its training and its purpose. by Kathleen Barry ‘Are our soldiers seeing too much combat?’ as one retired military…