Pakistan

Image: Pakistanis protest against against a bombing at a Shia mosque in Quetta on January 31, 2015. (Courtesy PRESS TV) 

Legitimizing Torture, Lies and Killer Drones By Dave Clennon | CounterPunch | January 25, 2015 The Screen Actors Guild has nominated Claire Danes of “Homeland” for its Best Actress Award.  It has also nominated Danes, Mandy Patinkin and the rest of the “Homeland” cast for the Outstanding Ensemble Award. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated […]

Drones and Targeted Killing By Ron Jacobs | CounterPunch | January 16, 2015 Imagine living in a town or neighborhood where a serial killer is on the loose. The killer’s primary weapon is a pipe bomb filled with small metal projectiles like BBs and nails. The bombs are designed to kill and maim those in […]

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Some killings are reported on in a slightly different manner from how the Charlie Hebdo killings have been. Rewriting a drone killing as a gun killing (changing just a few words) would produce something like this:
Freedom Fighters Gun Strike in Europe Is Said to Have Killed 12 Militants

By Seyed Mohammad Marandi | Tehran Times | January 6, 2015 Western pundits who blithely assert that the Islamic Republic of Iran can or will cooperate with the United States in Iraq against ISIL ignore a basic problem; how can the US be a serious partner in fighting a terrorist movement that Washington may have […]

Tragedies like the one in Peshawar are litmus tests for any nation- either bringing out the best, or exposing the bare bones. Pakistan’s response is curiously similar to the U.S response to 9/11. The fact that the U.S.’s counter-terror strategy accounts for the genesis of a much more brutal TTP and ISIS is lost to us.

Reprieve | December 29, 2014 Previously secret documents obtained by Der Speigel – including a ‘Kill List’ that included both Pakistani and Afghan targets – have raised new concerns about British complicity in the US’s covert drone war in Pakistan. The documents, detailed in an article published yesterday evening, show that NATO and British forces […]

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By Maryam Sakeenah | Dissident Voice | December 17, 2014 The attack on the Peshawar school is a tragedy that sends senses reeling, an enormity that confounds the senses. It does not help however, to dismiss the people who committed this foul atrocity as ‘inhuman’, or to say they were not really Muslims. It is […]