Onnesha Roychoudhuri, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. July 29, 2011.
A year-long military probe, leaked to the Washington Post, confirms that millions of Pentagon contracting dollars ended up in Taliban hands — as payola.
Pakistan is strategically at the center of too many plans for it to rely on the US -- with pipeline plans, Iran and China as neighbors and a planet hungry for natural gas.
M. Junaid Levesque-Alam, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 17, 2011.
If not for the sprawling and blundering U.S. brand of war, might Pakistanis have revolted against their regime and its Taliban creation in a Tunisia-like moment?
Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. February 6, 2011.
The new report from NYU's Center for International Cooperation is a warning that the escalated military strategy blocks the road to peace while making the Taliban more dangerous.
The human suffering of millions in Pakistan's floods may have just begun if the country destablizes -- meaning, the U.S. could be there for a very long time.
U.S. drones bomb Pakistan regularly. Now, Washington is about to deliver 20 F-16s and surveillance planes to Islamabad along with a thousand 500 lb bombs.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com. April 29, 2010.
A vote on legislation demanding a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan could could come up in the next two weeks. Let Congress know you support the bill.
Habiburrahman Ibrahimi, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. April 14, 2010.
"The government and the international community do not seem honest ... they talk about negotiations on one hand and intensify war against the opposition on the other."
Habiburrahman Ibrahimi, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. April 9, 2010.
By the U.S. military's calculations, the death of an Afghan child or adult is worth $1,500 to $2,500, loss of limb $600 to $1,500, a damaged or destroyed vehicle $500 to $2,500.
Obama's rationale for escalation in Afghanistan is based on a notion that he recently rejected: the supposedly indissoluble link between the Taliban insurgency and al Qaeda.
Mustafa Saber, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. November 24, 2009.
Residents of Takht-e-Bazaar say U.S. commandos landed in their area on November 6 and began shooting indiscriminately during a search for missing U.S. troops.
