By Nancy Mancias While many Americans spent their Thanksgiving holiday sitting around the table feasting on turkey and slumbering over the TV to watch football, members of CODEPINK Women for Peace used this Thanksgiving holiday to raise awareness about the war in Afghanistan. Creech Air Force Base, just north of Las Vegas, is the headquarters [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Released: November 10, 2009 Four activists were arrested this morning during a sit-in in front of Senator Joseph Lieberman’s office in Hartford. The arrestees were among 30 demonstrators who sought a public meeting with the Senator to confront him on his stance on healthcare reform while at the same time accepting donations from the health [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Asked what she fears, Malalai said: “I don't fear death. I fear political silence against injustice.”
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
By Cindy Thomas In 2005 my husband was severely wounded in Iraq and the Army labeled him “undeployable.” But, in 2007, they deployed him again. That is when I began to realize that I could no longer support the war and and started looking for the comfort and support of others who felt as I [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
In casting a vote to repress the Goldstone Report, 344 U.S. Representatives agreed Tuesday to look the other way. 344 U.S. Representatives voted to condemn a report they had not read. 344 U.S. Representatives voted to deny that with our rights as a free nation come responsibilities to uphold integrity and honesty, at least, if [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
During my recent trip to Afghanistan, I never heard Afghans calling for a runoff election. Yes, they were furious that the U.S.-sanctioned election in August was fraught with fraud, and they knew (with the current election commission) only fraud could again result. Their hopes had been dashed on the rocks once, and they didn’t want it repeated. Yet Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations—talked Karzai into a “runoff election.”
Monday, November 30, 2009
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