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What does justice look like in Cambodia?

Jasmin Ramsey — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:02:20 +0000

I was in Cambodia in 2006 working with a small, grass-roots, non-profit organization dedicated to street children. One day while heading to a village located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh (Cambodia’s capital), I passed by the massive reconstruction site of what was to become the UN backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). [...]

Don’t repeat Vietnam in Afghanistan

m.idrees — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:37:39 +0000

A superb presentation by the great Daniel Ellsberg who suggests that the counter-insurgency plan in Afganistan is similar to Vietnam.

“Israeli Apartheid – A Beginner’s Guide”

qunfuz — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:20:16 +0000

That there are striking parallels between white rule in apartheid South Africa and Zionist rule in Palestine – an analogy made by such mainstream figures as President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu – should no longer be controversial. But calling Israeli apartheid by its name will occasion the usual screams of anti-Semitism and ignorance [...]

Warlord as Nobel Laureate

pulsemedia.org — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:50:51 +0000

by William Blum “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire Question: How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize? Answer: Five. Barack Obama has waged war against only Pakistan, [...]

Pakistan creates its own enemy

m.idrees — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:22:50 +0000

The following is a version of the article I wrote for Le Monde Diplomatique updated for the German edition. On the day I arrived in Peshawar mid-September, the evening stillness was broken by nine loud explosions, each preceded by the sucking sound of a projectile as it arced into Hayatabad, the suburban [...]

Robot wars: a ‘killer’ application

Ann — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:41:19 +0000

With unmanned, remote-controlled drones increasingly in use from Pakistan to Palestine, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, we are grimly reminded about the latest lethal machines from the high-tech military-industry complex and the putative robotics revolution in warfare. From Hungry Beast TV. Addendum It is also worth noting that the Obama administration has dramatically stepped up the [...]

Robert Greenwald on Afghanistan

m.idrees — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:03:07 +0000

Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films speaks about Afghanistan on Bob McChesney’s excellent Media Matters. Robert Greenwald and McChesney discuss Afghanistan Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films. Under Greenwald’s direction, Brave New Films has produced a series of short political videos, including the Fox [...]

I Refuse to Buy a Poppy

qunfuz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:07:58 +0000

Yesterday five British soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan policeman. Just as they keep promising that they’ve reached ‘decisive turning points’ in their battle with the Afghan resistance, British military officials immediately vowed that the ‘rogue’ policeman would be caught. Today the Taliban reports that the policeman is safe with them, and that he’s [...]

Jeremy Scahill does CNN

Jasmin Ramsey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:17:38 +0000

Earlier this week award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill appeared on CNN’s Lou Dobb’s Tonight where he debated NYU’s Patricia DeGennaro and the neoconservative Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations about Afghanistan. Scahill has written and continues to write extensively about Iraq (he is the author of the brilliant Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army) [...]

Watching “The Hurt Locker” Hurts

Jasmin Ramsey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:42:49 +0000

Alternet, November 4. As the year winds down and Hollywood gets busy creating Oscar buzz, one unlikely contender is “The Hurt Locker,” the widely praised Iraq movie that premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and was released in the U.S. in June 2009. Just when I thought I’d seen enough of Iraq war movies, along [...]