By Kathy Kelly On May 4, 2011, CNN World News asked whether killing Osama bin Laden was legal under international law. Other news commentary has questioned whether it would have been both…
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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The 2011 Taliban Spring Offensive: Obama’s Obligation to Protect Afghan Civilians Under International Humanitarian Law
"Mr. President, on behalf of the civilian population in Afghanistan, I will see you in court." By Kathleen Kirwin, Esq. On Saturday, March 30th, the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of…
Nobel Peace Drones
By Glen Greenwald A U.S. drone attack in Pakistan killed 23 people this morning, and this is how The New York Times described that event in its headline and first paragraph: When I…
Listen to Malalai Joya on War, Occupation and Women in Afghanistan
Malalai Joya, Afghan women’s and democracy activist and author of A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice, talks about her work and the prospects…
Anatomy of an Afghan War Tragedy
By David S. Cloud Nearly three miles above the rugged hills of central Afghanistan, American eyes silently tracked two SUVs and a pickup truck as they snaked down a dirt road in…
Andy Worthington’s Seven Part Series on Bagram Prison
We are posting Andy Worthington’s series on the US prison at Bagram, Afghanistan here, as it appears. Bagram is "even more of a legal black hole than Guantánamo." Part 1: Updating the Definitive Bagram…
Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
By Josh Steiber One year ago, Wikileaks’ “Collateral Murder video1 created outrage over the actions of U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, including the platoon I deployed with. If that grisly video didn’t stop…
Could this be the Abu Ghraib Scandal of the U.S. War on Afghanistan?
Rolling Stone’s Collection: The War Crime Images Censored by the Pentagon A disturbing look at the photos collected by the kill team in Afghanistan – and widely shared among U.S. soldiers as…
U.S. Soldiers Pose for Photos with Murdered Afghans
By Jon Boone, in the Guardian UK The face of Jeremy Morlock, a young US soldier, grins at the camera, his hand holding up the head of the dead and bloodied youth…
Global Day of Listening
Global Day of Listening "live without wars" March 19-21*, 2011 Listen to what it is like to live in war-torn countries & about the wish to live without wars. You are encouraged…