Joshua Key is an American war resister who fought in Iraq and who sought refuge in Canada because of his war experiences. Author of “The Deserter’s Tale,” Joshua told the story of his recruitment into the U.S. Army, the carnage…
Category: Opinions and Debates
U.S. Nuclear War Planning for a Hundred Holocausts
by Daniel Ellsberg on September 13, 2009 One day in the spring of 1961, soon after my 30th birthday, I was shown how our world would end. Not the Earth, not—so far as I knew then—all humanity or life, but…
Bruce Cockburn performs for Canadian troops in Afghanistan
Bruce Cockburn – which side are you on? by Paul S. Graham, Sept. 12, 2009 Our Prime Minister continues to promote the fiction that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington justified the illegal invasion of Afghanistan and…
Sactioning rogue states
Why Not Sanctions for Israel? By Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, September 1, 2009 In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Netanyahu called for…
Afghanistan: Civilian slaughter continues
Obama’s Unspoken Trade-Off: Dead US/NATO Occupation Troops versus Dead Afghan Civilians? KANDAHAR, Aug 5, 2009 : Villagers look at the bodies of three children after they were killed in an airstrike by foreign troops in Arghandab district of Kandahar, south…
Pipeline politics: Afghanistan and the new Great Game
by John Foster, rabble.ca, August 27, 2009 Why is Afghanistan so important? A glance at a map and a little knowledge of the region suggest that the real reasons for Western military involvement may be largely hidden. Afghanistan is adjacent…
Obama recycles Bush “extraordinary rendition” policy
U.S. President Barack Obama is being accused of recycling one of his predecessor’s most controversial policies: the transfer of prisoners for interrogation to third countries, also known as rendition. An Al Jazeera panel discusses whether this policy has helped the…
Why Afghans Have No Hope in This Week’s Vote
A woman walks under an election campaign banner of Afghanistan’s President Hamidi Karzai in Kabul, Tuesday June 16, 2009. The banner reads in Dari and Pashto “Our Way is the Way of the Peace.” (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud) by Malalai Joya,…
Arrogance And Torture: A History of Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington, August 18, 2009 The mesh-wire cages, suitable only for animals, are empty now and overgrown, but they will stand forever as a symbol of the Bush administration’s inept, brutal and destructive “War on Terror” policies, implemented in…
Who will be the last to die for this mistake?
by Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian, August 8, 2009 For the past week I have been hearing the rattle of machine guns and the sonic booms of fighter jets tearing across the sky. It sounds like Helmand province, Afghanistan, but it…