Category: Opinions and Debates

Pakistan’s Balkanization

A boy stands at the site of suspected U.S. drone attacks in the Janikhel tribal area in Bannu district of North West Frontier Province, Nov. 29, 2008. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have carried out at least 27 air strikes by…

A Message for Obama: Stop Killing Afghanis

By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould Counterpunch, Dec. 4, 2008 Come January, President-elect Barack Obama will confront the most difficult foreign policy crisis of his administration with the region-wide-war developing in Afghanistan. If he is to succeed, the new president…