Our role in Haiti’s plight If we are serious about assisting this devastated land we must stop trying to control and exploit it By Peter Hallward, guardian.co.uk, Jan. 13, 2010 Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive…
Category: International
Afghan villagers protest ‘Nato killings’
AlJazeeraEnglish, Jan. 12, 2010 Residents in southern Afghanistan are accusing Nato and Afghan troops of killing 13 civilians after opening fire on a group of demonstrators. Nato insists the only person killed was a sniper. The shootings happened in Helmand…
Africom – Latest U.S. Bid to Recolonise the Continent
by Tichaona Nhamoyebonde, Global Research, Jan. 9, 2010 African revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that…
War of terror expands
U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And Indian Ocean by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Jan. 8, 2010 In parallel with the escalation of the war in South Asia – counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and drone missile attacks…
America’s march to war in Yemen
The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint By F. William Engdahl, Global Research, January 5, 2010 On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to…
Civilian death toll mounts – Afghans protest
Al Jazeera reports that the streets of Kabul have been flooded with protesters, angry at the number of civilian deaths at the hands of foreign forces in the country. The protests were triggered by an ISAF air raid, that killed…
Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against the killing of 10 civilians, mostly teenagers, in a raid by foreign forces, which heightened tensions between the Afghan government and NATO. By Jerome…
Lieberman: Yemen will be ‘tomorrow’s war’ if pre-emptive action not taken
By Jordan Fabian, The Hill, Dec. 27, 2009 Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) Sunday said that Yemen could be the ground of America’s next overseas war if Washington does not take preemptive action to root out al-Qaeda interests there. Lieberman, who…
Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantánamo?
by Andy Worthington, December 23, 2009 Over the weekend, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo, as the Justice Department announced in a press release on December 20. I have previously reported the stories of the two Somalis who were released…
The US Currently Has 189,000 Personnel in Afghanistan
Stunning Statistics About the War That Everyone Should Know By Jeremy Scahill, Counterpunch, December 18-20, 2009 A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversightsubcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent…
