Category: International

Afghan Financial Panic

AlJazeeraEnglish | September 05, 2010 Nervous customers withdraw their savings amid fears of possible bank collapse. Banksters, Afghan style by Creekside, Sept. 2, 2010 Der Spiegel in July: “Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected…

A phony finish to the war on Iraq

Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Occupation By Bill Quigly and Laura Raymond, Counterpunch, September 1, 2010 Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS…

International Day of the Disappeared

AlJazeeraEnglish | August 31, 2010 We mark the International Day of the Disappeared and ask: What is being done to end forced disappearances, and what will it take to get justice?  See also: International Day of the Disappeared

Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2010

By Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor, The City of Hiroshima, August 6, 2010 In the company of hibakusha who, on this day 65 years ago, were hurled, without understanding why, into a “hell” beyond their most terrifying nightmares and yet somehow managed…

Israel’s Public Relations War

TheRealNews | August 03, 2010 Escalating criticism of Israel led its security establishment to declare a PR war on “delegitimization.” For additional analysis, see the RealNews series entitled Who benefits from Israeli occupation? Palestinian filmmaking culture grows from NGO project…

Resistance to militarization in Costa Rica

Costa Rican Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Entry of US Military Civil Society Is Organizing to Maintain the Country’s Status as a Nation Without Armed Forces By Jamie Way, Narco News Bulletin, July 28, 2010 The Costa Rican Supreme Court last…

The Afghanistan War Logs

Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation By Nick Davies and David Leigh, guardian.co.uk, July 25, 2010 A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in…