We just received word that the CODEPINK Canadian nine-member delegation and the 30-member student delegation is on its way through into Gaza, after being stuck at the Rafah border for several days! Check out this story in The Toronto Star today, reporting from Jerusalem: Nine Canadian peace activists were again barred from entering the Gaza [...]
Friday, May 22, 2009
It’s been so swamped here at the CODEPINK House in DC, with the Senate passing yesterday the $92 billion war supplemental bill, that I did not have a chance to write yesterday on Afghanistan. But I’m full of fire and penned this letter to Pres. Obama. Enjoy!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Since the invasion of Iraq, the United States military has been notoriously known for not counting the number of innocent civilians killed in American-driven combat. According to the Los Angeles Times, the United States military has argued against the number of civilians killed in a recent air strike, estimating that roughly 20 or 30 civilians [...]
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Dear readers, notice much in the news today, and on Facebook, Twitter and in the blogosphere, about Afghanistan? No coincidence — hundreds of people in a huge coalition of peace groups including CODEPINK, United for Peace and Justice, Peace Action, American Friends Service Committee and more are doing all they can today in a National [...]
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Afghanistan has a CEO and his name is Zalmay Khalilzad. He is the man behind the mujahideen and “conducted risk analyses for Unocal” at the time that Unocal was engaging the Taliban on the construction of an oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan. Sonali Kolhatkar, co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of [...]
Thursday, May 21, 2009
In the kitchen the other night, I was thinking about my nephew, the Marine lieutenant, and suddenly these words flashed through my mind: “I want him to come to my funeral. I don’t want to go to his funeral.” A few years ago, when my family gathered for my father’s funeral, the only thing that [...]
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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