Iran and the Brunt of Nuclear Crucifixion
With over 2,000 highly operational nuclear weapons already in the world, it seems ridiculously ironic to try to attribute global insecurity to an Iranian nuclear energy program which the US, Israel and...
View ArticleNAM: Towards Breaking Western Stranglehold of Power
Despite the West’s deliberate inattention to and willful disregard for Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran, there is no denying the fact that the summit has occasioned extreme chagrin in Washington...
View ArticleTarget Killing, Mass Murder of Shia Minority in Pakistan
With thousands of Shia Muslims killed over the past few years in Pakistan and over 400 murdered in recent months, the killings have practically amounted to genocide, raising more-than-sectarian alarm...
View Article“Santa’s Sleigh” or Drones over the Americas
Like the School of the Americas, the weaponized drone perpetrates terrorism. As Predator drones come to Ft. Benning, some SOA Watch activists are applying our SOAW experience to “outing” the Predator...
View ArticleThe Summer of Muslim Discontent
The so-called Arab Spring is a distant and bitter memory to those who fought and struggled for a better world, not to speak of the thousands who lost, life and limb. In its place, throughout the Muslim...
View ArticleAmericans Take Anti-Drone Stance Directly to Pakistan
“You’re not really going to Pakistan, are you?” “You’ve seen the State Department travel warning?” “Don’t they hate us over there?” There are questions our friends and relatives are asking as we embark...
View ArticleBounty Hunting, Islamophobia, and Blaming the Victims
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. — Andre Gide, 1869-1951 As the Middle East burns and is being destroyed for threatening not one...
View ArticleThe Shooting of Malala Yousafzai
The shooting of 14 year old Malala Yousafzai has shocked the world, and shocking it should be, as children don’t deserve such ruthlessness. What Malala stood for, and what she was fighting against, is...
View ArticleMilitary Commander Gets Court Order to Protect Himself from Peace Activists
Some friends of mine have gotten arrested more times than I can count now for the offense of protesting drone use outside Hancock Air Field near Syracuse, N.Y. Sometimes they’ve blocked the gates to...
View ArticleBeyond Double Standards–and Hypocrisy
Double standards have always been with us, but I wonder if they haven’t reached new heights, along with hypocrisy, in the age of the “war on terrorism,” “humanitarian intervention,” and the...
View ArticleThe Universe Unraveling
The Southeast Asian country of Laos in the late 1950s and early 60s was a complex and confusing patchwork of civil conflicts, changes of government and switching loyalties. The CIA and the State...
View ArticleA Chat With Counterterrorism Chief John Brennan
Having recently returned from a Pakistan meeting with drone victims, on November 4 my partner Tighe Barry and I were having a leisurely Sunday morning breakfast. The discussion turned to John Brennan,...
View ArticleObama Legalizes the Illegal, Targets Innocents
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was bitterly right when he said US president Barack Obama “seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem” and aptly described him as a “wolf in sheep’s...
View ArticleIt’s An Anti-Imperialist Struggle, Not a Clash of Civilizations
In the machinations of Empire, religious and ethnic differences are often used to justify wars and repression. Historical examples abound. Animosity between nations’ ruling elites are framed in...
View ArticleMajority Versus Elite Priorities
The New York Times had a very good front page article on October 28 by Stephen Greenhouse entitled “A Part-Time Life, as Hours Shrink and Shift.” The piece features the steady increase in part-time...
View ArticleUK Waging Endless Wars: Home and Abroad
Last week, in his latest budget statement, the Tory Chancellor George Osborne unveiled a program of cuts in public spending. The cuts represented the most draconian of their kind ever embarked on by...
View ArticleTo The Fairy Prince
You weep before the cameras and say “We can’t tolerate this anymore - these tragedies must end.” Why, then, end them. End the drone strikes on Pakistan and Afghanistan, on Somalia and Yemen. End the...
View ArticlePakistan: Lessons from Egypt
One can detect symmetry and overlapping between societies in Egypt and Pakistan. Both post-colonial lands with a history of authoritarian rule and dynamic publics labouring under unpopular regimes,...
View ArticleKilling Children Is the All-American Way
Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador the United Nations, was asked on nationwide television in 1996 if the death of half a million Iraqi children from US war and sanctions on that country was a...
View ArticleWeep Indeed
Twenty seven innocent civilians killed - women and children in Newtown, Connecticut. That’s about one for every hundred thousand killed - barefoot peasants in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. That’s about...
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