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We at the Afghan Women’s Mission (AWM) often ask ourselves, why aren’t the major newspapers showing the American people what’s really happening in Afghanistan? AWM co-directors James Ingalls and I recently returned from a trip to Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan’s (RAWA) projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan. While we were there we saw … Continue reading “Afghanistan: Media Black Hole”

Editor’s note: The following is a statement by Daniel Ellsberg on the recent indictment of Mordechai Vanunu in Israel for his violation of restrictions banning him from speaking to foreigners or giving interviews to foreign journalists. Ellsberg has just returned from Israel, where he had been invited to testify against these restrictions on March 16 … Continue reading “Daniel Ellsberg: Free Mordechai Vanunu”

Redwood City, CA – The Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza has been nominated for a GlobalGiving.com competition. Through January 27th, at www.globalgiving.com/cb/gpf/pr/1000/proj929a.html, people throughout the world can vote online and rate the entries they deem best. The Gaza project is one of only two in the Human Rights category. 15 semifinalists chosen through open … Continue reading “Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza nominated in GlobalGiving.com competition”

In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. – from the introduction to the BBC series The Power … Continue reading “The Power of Nightmares”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy. “National ID cards are not proper in a free society,” Paul stated. “This … Continue reading “Rep. Paul Denounces National ID”

Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy.   Visit Rep. Ron Paul’s archives.     "National ID cards are not proper in a … Continue reading “Ron Paul Denounces National ID Card”

On Wednesday, August 29, 1945, President Truman gave out the reports of the Army and Navy Boards directed by Congress to investigate the responsibility for the great disaster of December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. These Boards had filed their reports nine months ago. Under the pretext that issuance of them would disclose important military … Continue reading “The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor”

Newtopia: Give us a little background on yourself. Where did you grow up, go to school? Where have you lived? What’s been your professional background? What were your main social, political, and cultural influences?   Dahr Jamail’s article archive on Antiwar.com     Dahr Jamail: I was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and attended … Continue reading “Unembedded: An Interview With Dahr Jamail”

In spite of a court ruling that halted the military trial of a Guantanamo detainee last week, the military is continuing to conduct another kind of controversial hearing for prisoners held at the U.S. base in Cuba. On Monday, a prisoner accused of delivering money to the Taliban stood before a Combat Status Review Tribunal … Continue reading “Gitmo Trials Continue Despite Ruling”

The planned reduction of U.S. troops in South Korea is an opportunity for Washington-Seoul ties to mature or decline, depending on whether ties can go beyond the narrow security issues that have driven the relationship for decades. This transition, experts say, is the main challenge for the five-decades-long alliance between the United States and South … Continue reading “With Troop Cuts, US-South Korea Relations Uncertain”