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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...

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NAM: 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...

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Target 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...

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“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...

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The 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...

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Americans 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...

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Bounty 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...

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The 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...

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Military 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...

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Beyond 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...

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The 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...

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A 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,...

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Obama 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...

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It’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...

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Majority 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...

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UK 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...

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To 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...

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Pakistan: 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,...

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Killing 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...

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Weep 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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