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textWon't mean the U.S. has won by Ted Rudow III, MA
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement, and drew both praise and skepticism around the world. But critics called the Nobel committee's decision premature, given that Obama has achieved few tangible gains, as he still grapples with challenges ranging from the war in Afghanistan and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea, and now the war on Libya. The raid...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2012 10:50am PDT
textUS Afghan Detainees Sent to Torture Prisons by Stephen Lendman
torture...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 10:19am PDT
textScoundrel Media Afghan Massacre Cover-Up by Stephen Lendman
anti-war...
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 12:57am PDT
text10 years after by Ted Rudow III, MA
As the U.S. and NATO mark 10 years of war in Afghanistan on Friday, a grim picture emerges from scores of interviews over six months across the country with ordinary Afghans, government officials, soldiers, and former and current Taliban, along with recent data....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 10:50am PDT
textSacramento Area Peace and Justice Events Calendar by www.sacpeace.org
To contact Sacramento Area Peace Action, please call 916-448-7157 or email sacpeace@dcn.org....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2011 5:50pm PDT
textBigotry by Ted Rudow III, MA
Untold thousands have died in the decade since then, among them the family of Masuda Sultan, an Afghan woman living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attack. She soon got word that 19 members of her family had been killed in a U.S. bomb attack in Afghanistan....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 11:44am PDT
textMR Original – Afghanistan: Endless War for Resource Control by Abby Martin
War has always been about two things: resources and control. It seems more than coincidental that before the US invasion, the Taliban had eradicated the opium crop in the Golden Crescent. Now, 90% of the world's heroin comes from Afghanistan....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 2:19am PDT
textNot good in history by Ted Rudow III, MA
U.S. leaders often are just not good on history....
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 12:46pm PDT
textNot good in history by Ted Rudow III, MA
President Obama is expected to announce today a withdrawal of up to 10,000 U.S. troops by the end of the year. Under the plan, the United States would still have some 67,000 troops, plus thousands of contractors, in Afghanistan at the start of 2013—the same total as before last year’s surge.       ...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2011 11:11am PDT
textBTL:As Afghan War Approaches Second Decade, Activists Organize October Anti-War Protest by Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http
Interview with David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, conducted by Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 5:26am PDT
textSacramento Area Peace Action June Calendar by www.sacpeace.org
The June 2011 Sacramento Area Peace Action Newsletter is now posted on our website: http://www.sacpeace.org/PrintFriendly/newsletter.pdf...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 5:04pm PDT
textSacramento Peace Calendar Update May 22 - Take Action on Afghanistan by Sacramento Area Peace Action
Take action to stop the war in Afghanistan this week. Here is the calendar update from www.sacpeace.org....
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2011 3:59pm PDT
text"The Great Game’s New Clothes" by Conn Hallinan by repost
May 5, 2011 According to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, the U.S. never informed Pakistan about the operation to assassinate al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladin because it thought the Pakistanis could “jeopardize the mission” by tipping off the target...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:50am PDT
textThe Boogeyman Is Dead. Long Live The Boogeyman. by Roy Batty
Unless you are a Blackwater "contractor" or an arms dealer or a Haliburton executive, you will not blindly accept that your money (or your childrens lives) should be spent chasing boogeyman after boogeyman....
Posted: Tue, May 10, 2011 8:13am PDT
textThe Afghanistan War and International Law by Prof. Gregor Schirmer
From the standpoint of the invaded, this war was and is a brutal violation against the basic principle of international law in Art 2 of the UN Charter which strictly prohibits the threat and use of force in international relations. This war was and is a war of aggression and a crime against world peace. The US and its allies bear responsibility for this crime....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 6:02am PST
textAfghans: Victimized by Conflict, Occupation, Extreme Deprivation and Genocide by Stephen Lendman
relentless imperial wars...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2010 8:31am PST
textAfghanistan turning in to a bigger mess than Iraq for a weakened US Imperialism by Richard Mellor
The US's man in Afghanistan is not behaving himself but it's a sign of more serious problems facing US imperialism....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 7:52pm PDT
textOperation Dark Heart will soon see the light of day (final) by David Roknich
"Operation Dark Heart" by former US intelligence agent Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer promises to expose US failures that have greatly prolonged the "War on Terror". It will be on the shelves soon in spite of last minute interference by the Pentagon....
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2010 8:58am PDT
textNSA Trying To Destroy 10,000 Whistleblower books by Lt Col Anthony Shaffer by Truth Excavator
Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, a former senior intelligence officer, became a reluctant whistleblower of Operation Able Danger after his statements to 9/11 Commission director Philip Zelikow about his knowledge of some of the terrorists implicated in 9/11 were suppressed. Shaffter informed Zelikow that operation Able Danger that was run by the Defense Intelligence Agency had identified in 2000 two terrorist cells that were later charged for the 9/11 attacks. Shaffer delivered a written testimo...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:26pm PDT
textLetter to President Obama from the Progressive Caucus Officers by Progressive Caucus Officers
"But when we see you capitulate in advance of negotiations by submitting far less than the public needs and deserves (health care, financial regulation, public education, women's reproductive rights) or affirmatively go in the other direction (civil liberties, the war in Afghanistan, to name a few instances), we are deeply offended. Then, to add insult to injury, your Press Secretary, Mr. Gibbs, publicly castigates and belittles us as the 'professional left,' whatever that means, and suggests...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 9:19am PDT
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