RAWA believes that no other nation can liberate Afghan women, and it is their own responsibility to raise and fight for their rights. In this hard fight we need the support and solidarity of peace-loving and democratic-minded people of the…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Reflections on the invasion of Gaza
The time of the righteous by Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Jan. 9, 2009 This war, perhaps more than its predecessors, is exposing the true deep veins of Israeli society. Racism and hatred are rearing their heads, as is the impulse for…
Gaza: Colonial Violence and Flawed Justifications
A Palestinian firefighter dousing flames in a printing building in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes were said to have killed two Hamas officers. Photo: Mahmud Hams/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images by Rachad Antonius, Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, December 31 2008…
Will the U.S. Stay in Iraq for Longer Than Agreed?
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, IPS News. December 26, 2008. Washington and Baghdad signed a security agreement earlier this month allowing the U.S. to maintain a military presence in Iraq for another three years. But while Baghdad officials…
War resisters living in fear
By John Hagan, Toronto Sun, December 30, 2008 Until recently, the federal government toed a careful line on its claim to fairly treat American Iraq war resisters who are seeking refuge and sanctuary in Canada. The party line was each…
The American-Made Insurgency in Afghanistan
by Chris Floyd, Global Research, December 16, 2008 The “Good War” in Afghanistan – the Bush-launched war that Barack Obama tells us we must fight and win – continues to deteriorate before our eyes. Just like every other operation in…
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…
The libertarian case against the war in Afghanistan
by David R. Henderson, Western Standard, November 20, 2008 Shortly after the U.S. government’s attack on Afghanistan in October 2001 (which, of course, followed the September 11 attacks on the United States), the Canadian government joined the United States, the…
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…
Obama’s Foreign Policy: No Sharp Break From Bush
by Jim Lobe Global Research, November 11, 2008 Inter Press Service While much of the world and many of his U.S. supporters are expecting a sharp break with his predecessor’s foreign policy after President-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20,…