UN Address: Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect By Noam Chomsky ZNet un.org/ga/president/63/interactive/protect/noam.pdf August 8, 2009 [Address to the United Nations General Assembly Thematic Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect, the United Nations, New York, 23 July 2009] The discussions about Responsibility to Protect (R2P), or its cousin “humanitarian intervention,” are regularly disturbed by the… [Read more…]
September 4, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Speaking of cowards and animals, not to mention “terrorists,” NATO has just delivered a mighty blow to its much vaunted claims to be “protecting civilians” and winning “hearts and minds,” by burning alive as many as 90 of these hearts and minds in an air strike that took place within the past 12 hours. Faced… [Read more…]
September 3, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
From CounterPunch, 03 Sept 2009: Ron Jacobs: Embedded With the Taliban Anand Gopal is a reporter based in Kabul who has reported from all parts of Afghanistan (the following are his statements in an interview with Ron Jacobs): I have some well-placed Taliban contacts and I was offered a chance to come out and see… [Read more…]
September 2, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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Below is a presentation recently made by Andrew Wilder, Research Director for Policy Process at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, as well as a blogger at Foreign Policy’s AFPAK Channel. Wilder presents a much less rosy and optimistic picture of the actual course of U.S. “aid,” “stabilization,” and “reconstruction” than others might have… [Read more…]
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September 6, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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