Pakistanis were not very surprised when an American soldier ran amuck in Kandahar and shot up 16 Afghan civilians, which came hot on the heels of another incident of American callousness in Afghanistan, i.e. the…
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What is the most dangerous occupation among the United States / NATO forces in Afghanistan? It is not “soldier”, as it may seem, but “subcontractor”. According to official data, more “subcontractors” of U.S. private military…
Nobody will know what Defense Secretary Leon Panetta felt after getting a report that a terrorist attack had been timed to his arrival at UK Camp Bastion air base situated in the South of Afghanistan….
A decade into the Afghan War, the atrocities by U.S. forces – whether accidental or intentional – keep piling up along with assurances from American leaders that “this is not who we are.” But the…
You can get your copy of “The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse” with a minimum contribution to Truthout by clicking here. Marjorie Cohn – a law professor and past president of the…
On March 14, 2012, Azerbaijan arrested 22 suspects in a plot to attack the Israeli and U.S. embassies in Baku, the country’s capital. Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry said that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind the…
Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, despite being targeted over the past six decades for numerous crimes including massacres from various sources, in many ways is representative of all the Palestinian camps in Lebanon. Located in South…
“No one will be able to blackmail us,” the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu answered the inflammatory plan proposed by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in which Israel should support the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party)…
Press Release from Veterans For Peace FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 15, 2012 Contact: Elliott Adams 518 441-2697 Tarak Kauff 845 706-0187 U.S VETS REFUSED ENTRY INTO SOUTH KOREA Protest Friday at South Korean Consulate WHERE:…
Honorable Li Tae Sik, Ambassador Embassy, Republic of Korea 2450 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20008 (Fax: 202-342-1597) Copies: Korean Consulate, 3500 Clay Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 (Fax: 415-921-5946); Korean Consulate, 3243 Wilshire…