by Norman Solomon June 8, 2009 It takes at least tacit faith in massive violence to believe that after three decades of horrendous violence in Afghanistan, upping the violence there will improve the situation. Despite the pronouncements from high Washington places that the problems of Afghanistan can’t be solved by military means, 90 percent of the spending for [...]

Moshé Machover June 2009 HOW SHOULD we think about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Please note: how comes before what. Before coming to any substantive conclusions—certainly before taking sides—we must be clear as to how the issue ought to be approached.

by Daniel J. Lakemacher June 10, 2009 After having been deployed for six months as a member of the medical team assigned to the detainee population at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, I can easily say that Gitmo is the most hate-filled place I have ever experienced. The animosity I felt in the “camps” on a daily basis was [...]

By ADAM B. ELLICK Published: June 13, 2009 KABUL, Afghanistan — In unusually firm remarks, the chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said there was an “urgent need to review” the Special Operations forces here.

By Agencies June 9, 2009 An explosion near a US military convoy in northeastern Afghanistan has killed one child and wounded at least 49 other civilians, police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast on Tuesday in Asadabad, the provinical capital of Kunar province, but several witnesses said a US soldier had thrown a grenade [...]

“Torturing Democracy” relies on the documentary record to connect the dots in an investigation of harsh interrogations of prisoners in U.S. custody – and points straight to the top. Timely and powerful, at its heart the film is about the rule of law – and how the government pushed it aside despite the fierce resistance [...]

By JOHN R. MacARTHUR May 20, 2009 HAVE YOU EVER asked yourself what you would have done if you had found yourself in Paris on June 14, 1940, when the German army rolled into town? Collaboration so quickly became the norm that this fundamental question — would I have run, fought, played ball or just kept my [...]

Noam Chomsky habla con Nermeen Al-Mufti sobre Gaza, el capitalismo y las responsabilidades del intelectual

General Tapped by Obama to Lead Afghanistan War Testifies Tuesday By Spencer Ackerman June 1, 2009 A former military interrogator who contributed to the manhunt for a senior Iraqi terrorist has urged the Senate Armed Services Committee staff to press Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Obama administration’s nominee to lead U.S. troops in the Afghanistan war, on what [...]

Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat files a report on the state of the Gazan economy, where unemployment and poverty rates are among the highest in the world. Despite international pledges of over $5.2 billion to rebuild Gaza, in the four months since Israel’s assault the siege has not been lifted and only one truck carrying [...]