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Protesting NATO in Chicago Will Be Too Late for Afghanistan
Dear friends of ordinary 99 percent Afghans, We thank you for your love and your hands and feet, in organizing for the upcoming Chicago protests! In these killing days, …
Suicides Outpace Combat Deaths, and Benefits Access a Struggle, for Veterans of Falklands/Malvinas War
The battle for the British-controlled Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina continues to kill, even 30 years after Argentine troops landed there on April 2, 1982. The struggle …
US-Israel Deal to Demand Qom Closure Threatens Nuclear Talks with Iran
Washington, DC - The Barack Obama administration has adopted a demand in the negotiations with Iran beginning Saturday that its Fordow enrichment facility must be shut down and eventually …
Military Judge Hears Arguments Over Constitutionality of Charges Against USS Cole Bomber
In the military commission hearing of Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri, there waits a potential death sentence. Al-Nashiri is the alleged al-Qaeda operative said to be responsible for the …
Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster
Women make their way down a street past a photo of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside of a mosque in Tehran, Monday, August 21, 2006. Iran's supreme …
Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry, Part II
In Part II of this series we will explore the cronyism and self-dealing with the other major military service contract in Iraq, the Restore Iraq Oil (RIO) contract, and …
Who Runs Egypt
The two best organized forces in Egypt today remain the military and Islamist organizations. They have been quite successful in leveraging their advanced organization to assert control of the …
A Contrarian Optimist View of the Upcoming Iran Nuclear Talks
When President Obama nominated global health superhero Dr. Jim Young Kim to lead the World Bank, Harvard development economist Dani Rodrik remarked, "It's nice to see that Obama can …
Above the Drone of War, Voices for Peace
Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers from Kabul and Bamiyan visiting with Afghan youth at Nangarhar University in Jalalabad. (Photo: Caravan of Nonviolence) In 1876, at the so-called battle of the …
Shut Out of US, Lawyer for Pakistani Drone Victims Speaks Out
Shahzad Akbar can no longer travel to the United States. Akbar is a Pakistani lawyer who founded the human rights organization Foundation for Fundamental Rights in 2010 and represents …