Civil Disobedience

Palestinian 'struggle' to return to basics

Palestinian 'struggle' to return to basics Israel Today Senior members of the Palestinian Authority's ruling Fatah party last week quietly declared the "third intifada" against Israel, but stressed that this time around the...

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Indo-US Mutual Deceptions By Sajjad Shaukat

News Type: Event — Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:40 AM EST Indo-US relationship which has strengthened rapidly after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union is, in fact, based upon mutual self-deceptions. It is notable that prior to...

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How Can You Engage In Civil Disobedience Against Someone Else’s Marriage?

The signers and followers of the Manhattan Declaration share more in common with the crowds of white Southerners shouting and jeering at little African-American kids trying to go to school than they do with Martin Luther King.

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Aid workers in southern Somali town moved to Kenya

Source: Reuters * Aid workers moved to neighbouring Kenya * Relocation will not affect aid delivery - U.N. By Frank Nyakairu NAIROBI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Aid agencies operating in southern Somalia said on ...

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Military's tactics criticized in lead-up to Afghanistan attack

Less than two months before he died in eastern Afghanistan, 1st Lt. Jonathan P. Brostrom made a surprise Mother's Day visit to his parents' home in Aiea. "Some friends of his were over and made me dinner," his mother, Mary Jo,...

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We can't buy peace in Afghanistan | Seumas Milne

The classic colonial practice of giving insurgents wads of cash is no more likely to be successful in Afghanistan than it was in Iraq So now we know the secret weapon of the the new western plan to pacify Afghanistan: cash. As...

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Philippines election attack leaves 21 dead

Twenty-one politicians and journalists who were abducted in the southern Philippines have been found dead. Clan leader According to local reports, the group was abducted early on Monday while on their way to an election office...

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We cannot allow this foul insurgency to triumph | Julian Glover

If we scuttle away from Afghanistan we will inflict horror on its people. The wrong people will win: in three years they might not There is a low shelf deep in the stacks of the London Library that holds the sad story of this...

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Pakistani army kills 18 militants in border region

PARACHINAR, PakistanPakistan's army killed 18 Islamist militants in a northwestern region Monday, part of an escalating campaign against insurgents intent on toppling the U.S.-allied government. It was the second day of...

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Ottawa's deny, delay, disparage strategy: So far, it's working

Nearly four years after Canadian troops started waging a tough counterinsurgency in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar, the government continues to deny there has been a single proven instance of torture

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