On September 13, 2009, Dr. Graeme MacQueen, a retired professor of religious studies from McMaster University, presented a speech entitled 9/11 Truth: the Challenge to the Peace Movement, at the conference, “We Demand Transparency! For Peace, Truth, and a New…
Tag: Afghanistan war
Shocking stories of US torture in Afghanistan
Russia Today, Feb. 2, 2010 An ever increasing number of U.S. troops are fighting for peace in Afghanistan. But an investigative journalist claims to have revealed the shocking truth about surprise night raids by American forces and secret prisons where…
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…
America’s Drug-Corrupted War
A British soldier keeps watch while on foot patrol in a poppy field in Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan on March 28, 2009. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) More photos at Boston.com. by Prof Peter Dale Scott, Global Research, January 1, 2010 The…
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…
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…
Tales from Yes-we-can-istan
By William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report, December 9, 2009 All the crying from the left about how Obama “the peace candidate” has now become “a war president” … Whatever are they talking about? Here’s what I wrote in this report…