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Saturday September 4th 2010

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Robert Gates and Michael Mullen on David Cameron, Pakistan, and the ISI

Robert Gates and Michael Mullen on David Cameron, Pakistan, and the ISI

“Afghanistan is getting more dangerous by the month”

“Afghanistan is »

MSNBC | By Evan Vucci, Photojournalist, AP | 22 July 2010 'We don't have enough power to fight' Three weeks into the [...]


From the Regional Powers

Dutch troops to withdraw from Afghanistan in August Dutch troops to withdraw from »

China Daily | 30 July 2010 THE HAGUE - The Dutch troops deployed in Afghanistan will leave as [...]


Exhibition to commemorate the U.S. bombing of Japan Exhibition to commemorate the »

Times of India |29 July 2010 Atom-bomb exhibition to be held in London HIROSHIMA: The annihilation [...]


Remembering the only use of nuclear weapons, killing 215,000 innocent civilians Remembering the only use of »

RIA Novosti | 29 July 2010 UN chief to pay tribute to victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings UNITED [...]


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Open Letter from Prominent Afghans »

Open Letter from Prominent Afghans to Obama: Discrimination Against Pashtuns

Dawat Independent Media Centre | 1 July 2010 To: Mr. Obama, President, United States ofAmerica From: Dr. Misdaq, Dr. Zirakyar, Dr. Miraki and Dr. [Read More]

From Imperial Allies

ISI: Wikileaks logs reflect soldiers’ fears, suspicions, and anxieties ISI: Wikileaks logs »

Der Spiegel | 28 July 2010 By Matthias Gebauer, John Goetz, Hans Hoyng, Susanne Koelbl, [...]


Americans funding expanding Israeli occupation (“settlements”) Americans funding »

Der Spiegel | By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Christoph Schult | 23 July 2010 US Cash for [...]


Blowing Smoke Rings at the Kabul Charade Blowing Smoke Rings »

Spiegel | By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada in Kabul | 20 July 2010 Setting a [...]


From the Resistance

Iran calls for democracy, not »

Iran calls for democracy, not fascism, at the world level

Reuters | By Robert Evans | 19 July 2010 Iran calls for world body free of big power control (Reuters) - Senior Iranian official Ali Larijani, whose country is under strong pressure from the United Nations over its nuclear program, called on Monday for a more [Read More]

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Analysis & Opinions

Remove American Forces from Pakistan

Remove American Forces from Pakistan

Afpakwar | Arshad Zaman | 30 July 2010 It’s official: although careful not to leave any footprints, the U.S. has boots on the ground in Pakistan. U.S. troops in Pakistan ensure compliance by the government, under threat of overt occupation. This was revealed on Thursday 22 July 2010, when U.S. lawmakers Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Ron Paul [...]

The West’s War Crimes are Much Greater than Israel’s

The West’s War Crimes are Much Greater than Israel’s

YNet | By Shaul Rosenfeld | 30 July 2010 Hypocrisy’s finest hour Revelations of West’s crimes in Afghanistan highlight anti-Israel hypocrisy In an interview with PBS earlier this year, Richard Goldstone was quite amazed by a question regarding the suspicion that he and others may, heaven forbid, adopt a double standard in respect to [...]

Wikileaks: Osama bin Laden died in a Peshawar hospital, and other howlers

Wikileaks: Osama bin Laden died in a Peshawar hospital, and other howlers

The News | By Rahimullah Yusufzai | 30 July 2010 WikiLeaks falsehood PESHAWAR: Revelations by Wikileaks based on classified US military files on the Afghan war contain a trove of interesting and sometimes true information, but an element of falsehood is also there, such as one intelligence report in June 2007 that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin [...]

On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan

On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan

Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 28 July 2010 On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan; the tip of an old iceberg I’ve been resisting diving into the WikiLeaks controversy, in part because the information contained in the documents – including allegations of Pakistani complicity with the Taliban - is not new. Yet at the same time you can’t [...]

Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef

Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef

Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 10 Feb 2010 “My Life with the Taliban” – on study and Islamic values In  “My Life with the Taliban”,  Abdul Salam Zaeef — who fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later served in the Taliban government before it was ousted in 2001 — writes of how he longed [...]

An Islamic ‘marriage-with-relinquished-rights’ gone awry in UK

An Islamic ‘marriage-with-relinquished-rights’ gone awry in UK

asharq alawsat | By Dr. Hamad Al-Majid | 29 July 2010 The Misyar Question! A Nikah al-Misyar is a contract of marriage that meets all the conditions of a valid marriage contract under Islamic law --essentially, offer and acceptance by both parties, a specified dowry, and the consent of the guardian--but incorporates a voluntary relinquishment [...]

Wikileaks: The folly that is Afghanistan

Wikileaks: The folly that is Afghanistan

Guardian | By Simon Jenkins | 27 July 2010 A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence Is it the death of war? In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. Such was the reaction that American [...]

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