Posts Tagged ‘Neo-Colonialism’
“They hate our freedoms” — America Suppresses Freedom of Press in Pakistan
Antiwar.com | By Jason Ditz | 6 September 2009 US Gets Pakistani Column Pulled Over Blackwater Report US Ambassador Pressed Pakistani Paper to Pull Column The United States embassy in Pakistan reportedly managed to get the weekly column of a top critic of US policy pulled from the major English-language newspaper in Pakistan “The News [...]
Cindy Sheehan to Protest the “Af-Pak” War
Counterpunch | By John V. Walsh | 26 August 2009 The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland Cindy Sheehan will be at Martha’s Vineyard beginning August 25 a short way from Obama’s vacation paradise of the celebrity elite but very far from the Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq where the [...]
Blackwater/Xe Enters Pakistan, In a Big Way
If memory serves, it was reported both that Benazir Bhutto (in Musharraf's time) and that Asif Zardari (later) had wanted to bring infamous American mercenaries, Blackwater, to Pakistan for their personal protection. With Asif Zardari now placed in office, it appears that "Blackwater" (that now does business under the name Xe Services LLC), [...]
American-led Occupation of Pakistan Well Under Way
The News | By Shireen Mazari | 26 August 2009 Our leaders' voluntary submission to colonisation First there has been the threat to the ordinary citizen of an effective occupation of Pakistan by the US, especially for those living in what is becoming a threateningly close proximity to the droves of Americans arriving in form or another. [...]
American Military Base in Islamabad
The foundations of the British Empire in India were laid by the East India Company securing permission to defend their factories by stationing troops in Bengal. In Pakistan the United States has received the green light for stationing marines (and much more) in their new billion dollar Embassy. The next time the Pakistan army tries to remove an [...]
BBC: Afghan polling ‘marked by fraud’
BBC | Story | 22 August 2009 Election observers in Afghanistan have said there was widespread voting fraud and intimidation during the presidential election on Thursday. Stuffed ballot boxes, illiterate voters being told who to vote for and biased officials were cited by Afghanistan's Free and Fair Election Foundation. But EU monitors [...]
U.S. Citizens Karzai and Ghani Compete in Afghan “Elections” Supervised by 300,000 Troops
Times Online | 20 August 2009 By Jeremy Page and Tom Coghlan in Kabul, and Julius Cavendish in Kandahar Violence forces polls to shut amid low Afghan turnout Taleban attacks across Afghanistan forced the closure of some polling stations today as many nervous Afghans chose not to take part in a presidential election that pitted their faith [...]
The big lie of Afghanistan
Article | By Malalai Joya | 25 July 2009 Inquiries into the 954 deaths in police custody since 1990 have all proved fruitless – and then this historic case comes along In 2005, I was the youngest person elected to the new Afghan parliament. Women like me, running for office, were held up as an example of how the war in Afghanistan had [...]
“The troops are tired; the American people are tired.” — Gates
WSWS.org | By James Cogan | 22 July 2009 July casualties highest of Afghan war The determination of the Obama administration to escalate its neo-colonial war in Afghanistan has led to a sharp increase in the casualties for both US and NATO troops. The Taliban and other insurgent movements are responding with daily guerilla attacks on the [...]
Recommended Reading for Sarkozy
Muslimnista. org | By Fatemeh Fakhraie | Posted on 13 October 2008 An Open Letter to White Non-Muslim Western Feminists We need to talk. Having the economic privilege to spend a few summers in Cairo or to study abroad in Dubai does not give you the authority to speak about Middle Eastern culture. Dating a Saudi guy does not give you the [...]
