Friday October 7, 2011 marks the ten year anniversary of the United States invasion of Afghanistan, considered by many as the nation's longest war. To date, it has cost some $460 billion. Hundreds of thousands of US troops have been sent to Afghanistan, many on...
Freedom Plaza is an open block in the middle of D.C. in between the White House and the Capitol Building, and on Thursday it was packed with activists and concerned citizens protesting against the government's wars and corporatism. Well over 500 people showed up to...
Afghan officials said Wednesday they had stopped an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist cell in Kabul University in their plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai and carry out attacks in New York and Washington. The cell's six member, said to include a member of...
After ten years, Afghan civilians are bearing the brunt of the US-led war. More than half of the population is under 18 and the overwhelming majority of them don't understand the reasons behind the war and occupation. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the...
The Bahraini government has announced that a retrial will take place for the 20 medical professionals recent sentenced to lengthy jail time for treating as patients protesters injured by harsh government crackdowns. The trial had come under severe international...
There is a political fight in Washington over the US prison at Guantanamo Bay. The Obama administration and those who support it want to maintain the inhumane system of indefinite detention without charge or trial, but move the prison to US soil. Those in opposition...
In August, regime officials of Muammar Gadhafi claimed that 85 civilians were killed in a NATO airstrike in the village of Majar. Locals have acknowledged that the Gadhafi spokesman's figures were inflated, including both those killed and injured. But now survivors...
Twenty six more Bahraini protesters were sent to jail to serve sentences from 5 to 15 years for involvement in recent uprisings, offenses that are essentially exercises of freedom of speech and assembly. This is only the latest incident where Shiite political...
The US drone that assassinated American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen was launched from one of the Obama administration's newly constructed bases on the Arabian Peninsula. It was only a few weeks ago that reports were first released about the Obama administration's...
A Bahraini princess has been accused of being involved in the torture of pro-democracy protesters detained in the country's recent crackdown on peaceful assembly. A number of the medical professionals sentenced last week to lengthy jail time for treating injured...
