In March the American University of Afghanistan will open its doors here, introducing a new kind of higher education to the country. A private institution with an international faculty that will...
Murray: CIA used Uzbek torture to create false intelligence; support for regime continues Craig Murray is a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and current Rector of the University of Dundee. The Real News Network
Feffer 23.12. jämför Obama med Nixon. Å ena sidan START, vapenkontroll och (eventuellt) nedrustning. Å andra sidan krig och imperialism. "This bifocal view of Richard Nixon reveals one of the great paradoxes of the U.S. peace movement. Peace activists div
Mick Moore, 22 January 2010 : "It is no longer utopian to talk of substantial policy change within a few years. Where and how will it come about? There are clear, strong links between prohibition and the growing likelihood of defeat for the Western milita
Pfeffer , February 23, 2010: " Over the weekend, the Labor Party in the Netherlands walked out of the ruling coalition government to protest the extension of the Dutch deployment in Afghanistan. [...] let the Dutch political crisis serve as a warning. Th
Conn Hallinan: "Drones are a high-tech solution to a deeply complex political problem. The longer they stalk the skies over Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, the more difficult those political problems become. It is time to stop bombing and start talking."
Conan Hallinan: "....an alternative scenario that not only avoids magical thinking about what choppers can do, but better fits the politics of the moment: that Pakistan’s Directorate of Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) knew where Bin Laden was and fingere
Wallerstein:" The United States today is, I would say, one of the least stable political entities in the world-system... there is a major drop in the belief in the United States, and its president, by traditional U.S. allies abroad, and by the president's Commentary No. 345, Jan. 15, 2013"The Structural Crisis: Middle-Run Imponderables": "Nuclear weapons are essentially defensive weapons and therefore reduce, not increase, the likelihood of interstate wars."
Colin Hallinan on their Diverging Objectives. "Pakistan and the United States may have profoundly different views of one another, but on at least one issue they agree: slightly over 90 percent of Pakistanis would like U.S. troops to go home, and 62 percent of Americans want an immediate cut in U.S. forces. Common ground in this case seems to be based on a strong dose of common sense."