Pakistan

President Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace has elicited all kinds of responses from peace activists, especially in the Peace Action family, which is great! We’ve gotten [...]

Since the leaking of the McCrystal memo and the President’s professed skepticism of certain aspects of Afghanistan policy, the public has witnessed a media blitz from both sides of the [...]

In anticipation of how the Obama administration will define success and metrics of progress in Afghanistan, Tom Englehardt of the Nation provided an invaluable collection of statistics (with [...]

The Obama administration will soon release 50 benchmarks to measure progress in Afghanistan. This report will be published on Sept. 24, a week after the election results are scheduled to be made [...]

Violence threatens to keep voters at bay in the Afghanistan elections taking place on Aug. 20.  The above maps from the Washington Post show that violent incidents involving deaths among NATO, [...]

…which is, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.   Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan   Published on Thursday, July 9, 2009 by CommonDreams.org by Norman Solomon The president [...]

By Tom Hayden Robert McNamara died the other day as seven American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.   It wasn’t the deaths on the same day that made me remember McNamara’s folly.   It was the [...]

President Obama continues to state that the military alone will not solve the problems in Afghanistan. In a May 16 interview with Newsweek, he admits that “we aren’t  going to succeed [...]

As attacks on the Taliban in Pakistan increase, the number of civilian refugees fleeing the fighting has reached 1.3 million. The growing humanitarian crisis has forced parents to leave their [...]

Congress is going to vote as soon as Thursday on a $94 billion supplemental funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we need to act fast. Despite President Obama’s promise of a [...]