Sunday, December 2, 2012

Swatting the Bottom of the Workforce.

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This Dec. 2 Salon.com article describes in refreshing clarity what is happening right now in the U.S. on the bottom wrung of the employment...

Still Extraordinary, a Change of Edition.

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Life inside the borders of the United States becomes increasingly stark and alarming as living steadily becomes easier for a slimmer percent...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Jeremy Scahill & Tom Engelhardt Talk U.S. Empire

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Part of a Lannon Foundation lecture series. Topics include Pakistan, Egypt, Mubarak, People Power in general, Tunisia, Yemen, the Tucson sho...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Raymond Davis, the U.S. and Pakistan

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Two worthwhile stories on the murder case in Pakistan. The murder happened Jan. 27. The Counterpunch article by Dave Lindorff is dated Feb. ...
Friday, January 7, 2011

FAIR:"Does Anyone Object to U.S. Drone Wars in Pakistan?"

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From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting back on Oct. 3, 2010 by Peter Hart Apparently not, judging by the Washington Post's October 3 st...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Foreign Policy magazine's AfPak Channel has today's lodown on Pakistan's near collapse

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Gilani losing his authority and a coalition in the Pakistani government. A suicide bomber on Christmas Day attacking would-be recipients of ...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Jeremy Scahill on Dec. 2 Democracy Now!: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Secret U.S. War Ops in Pakistan

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Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill on the strategy of prevarication implemented by U.S. political and military leadership to confuse th...
Friday, October 22, 2010

More US aid to Pakistan, with mild griping in the place of clear objectives

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From BBC News by Kim Ghattas in Washington, Oct. 21, 2010 First, an important stat from the BBC ... "Since 2005, Pakistan has received ...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Pakistan arrests 7 militants, foil plot to kill PM

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Associated Press story dated Oct. 14 appears on Pakistan Conflict Monitor Pakistan arrests 7 militants, foil plot to kill PM By KHALID TANVE...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

New America Foundation raises unaddressed issues in U.S.-Pakistan military ops

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Video from the New America Foundation, one of the groups taking action to inject debate into the largely closed and classified U.S. military...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

Pakistan erupts in the news; U.S. rift threatens West's policy in Central Asia

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From a possible revision of ally status for Pakistan with the U.S. to the average Pakistani being sick to death of the CIA using robots to k...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Oct. 3 report on drone strike at funeral for drone strike victims

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This illuminating article posted by the Denver chapter of an autonomous political action group, Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (Den...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

UK Guardian: U.S. Military drones lent to CIA program for "covert" ops in Pakistan

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At least British newspaper editors believe nation-states are supposed to declare war formally and publicly before breezing into a so-called ...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

U.S. agrees to probe of strike that killed 3 Pakistani soldiers

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By Karin Brulliard and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, October 2, 2010 ExEd note: The key significance of these inci...

NATO fuel tankers torched in Pakistan

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Related Extraordinary Edition post from May, 2010; a Jeremy Scahill story from his blog at thenation.com This post created on an alert from ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

CIA publicly announces its increase in drone attacks in Pakistan

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C.I.A. Steps Up Drone Attacks on Taliban in Pakistan By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT Published: September 27, 2010 WASHINGTON — The C.I.A....
Monday, September 27, 2010

Reminder from the desk of General Musharraf: don't criticize Pakistani military

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Associated Press story Pakistani minister resigns after criticizing army By ZARAR KHAN (AP) ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's federal minister for ...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

To be clear, US forces still in Iraq to the tune of 50,000

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From Aletho News The End of Combat My Eye aletho | September 23, 2010 at 10:33 am | Categories: "Hope and Change", Deception | URL...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

North Waziristan motorcyclists latest to be killed by UAV

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From the Long War Journal ... US Predators strike again in North Waziristan By Bill Roggio September 20, 2010 Excerpts appear here— "Fo...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Mainstream news mechanics evaluated, more money allocated to drone warfare for next year

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From Ceasefire Magazine online Sept. 19, 2010 Piece by Musab Younis An excerpt ... The drone issue is an interesting one. A typical report f...