• House Armed Services Committee had recently heard testimony from David Kilcullen–a former adviser to General David Petraeus–who believes the drone attacks take too many civilian lives. Kilcullen testified that while drone attacks are suspected to have killed 14 Al-Qaeda leaders since 2006 in Pakistan, at the same time the weapons have killed about 700 [...]
As part of a series of interviews with women from war-torn countries (see interviews from Afghan and Afghan-American women here), CODEPINK interviews Fawzia Afzal-Khan, a Pakistani-American and English professor at Montclair State University in N.J. about the escalating crisis in Pakistan and how American women can help. Many have criticized the Obama administration for its [...]
Alexander Cockburn’s “Twittergasms” piece today in the Nation slams much of the anti-war movement through the lens of Twitter — including CODEPINK — for failing to rally the world against Obama’s failed promises, war in Afghanistan, growing war in Pakistan, and still-not-over war in Iraq, and for joining in the conversation around the current civil [...]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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