Afghanistan

Larry Wittner, long-time activist, professor and author, has a terrific op-ed on History News Network on the gigantic U.S. military budget. Check it out and feel free to re-post and forward.

Drew Conway, an NYU political science graduate student, has created some remarkable graphs from the enormous amount of information provided by Wikileaks on the war in Afghanistan. His latest [...]

Thanks to your constant pressure on Congress, 114 representatives voted last month to oppose funding for the war in Afghanistan—the highest number we’ve ever seen.  Unfortunately, the $37 billion [...]

Take a moment to read a great post by Nazish Brohi of The Dawn Blog in response to last week’s Time magazine cover story. Nazish Brohi draws the attention to the fact that the U.S. [...]

The cover of last week’s Time magazine is deservedly catching some heat. It’s a picture of an 18 year old Afghan woman named Aisha whose nose and ears were cut off by her husband and [...]

For anyone who is not planning to personally read all 92K classified Afghanistan war docs released this Sunday by Wikileaks — or doesn’t have time to read the reams of coverage to try [...]

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted 308-114 to fund the continued escalation of the failed US war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. First off, thanks to all who lobbied their Member of [...]

We just got word that the House has begun debate on the bill to send $34 billion more to fuel the war in Afghanistan. And it’s coming just after Wikileaks revealed the horrors of war via [...]

Dear [[supporter.First_Name]], Rep. Kucinich put it bluntly last week when he said there are, “92,000 reasons to get out of Afghanistan and Pakistan: Pick one.” He was referring to [...]

Thanks to Tom for giving Peace Action a shout out: Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com) House Stands Firm on Afghanistan Withdrawal Timetable Tom Hayden | July 2, 2010 One hundred [...]