by Richard Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) has just published a 50-page report called “CANSEC: War is Business.” This latest issue of Press for Conversion! magazine, which marks COAT’s 20th…
Is Obama walking into an Al-Qaeda trap?
Touch Yemen, Get Burned By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Dec. 31, 2009 We are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the nails that go into the rock We are the sparks of hell He who defies us will be burned…
Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010
By John Pilger, Dec. 31, 2009 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future:…
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…