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Shut the Back Door to War With Iran
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:10 PM |
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Israel hits Hamas military leader, targets missile sites in major air assault on Gaza Strip
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:00 PM |
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The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza City, killing Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas’s armed wing — the equivalent of an army’s chief of staff — and his son, Mohammed al-Homs. Palestinian sources put the death toll at up to nine by evening.
Following the airstrikes, Palestinians launched dozens of rockets at Israel, most of them targeting Beersheba and its environs. Rockets were also fired at Ashkelon, Ashdod and other cities w...
Read Full Post »F.O.R. statement on Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense: Ceasefire Now
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:50 AM |
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As an interfaith organization committed to nonviolence, The Fellowship of Reconciliation opposes all armed conflict and especially attacks on civilians.We mourn the deaths of civilians in Gaza and Israel, and pray for their families and those who have been injured in attacks." We believe that an immediate cessation of hostilities can best be achieved through a negotiated ceasefire that evolves into a sustained commitment to peaceful co-existence. We oppose policies of occupation, torture, tar...
Read Full Post »Middle East and Military
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 3:40 PM |
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Pakistan Foreign Minister: Drones are Top Cause of Anti Americanism
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 3:35 PM |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline September/ 28/2012
Pakistan's foreign minister said last night that the top cause of anti-Americanism in her country is the U.S. use of drone attacks.
Agence France Presse reports Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar'd comments in a speech in New York to the Asia Society :
"The use of unilateral strikes on Pakistani te...
Read Full Post »Why I am going to Pakistan next week
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
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Why I am going to Pakistan next week
I am very thrilled with the opportunity to go to Pakistan as a member of the CodePink Peace Delegation representing Fellowship of Reconciliation. We will be going to Islamabad, where we will have the opportunity to meet with survivors of drone strikes and drone strike victims, and we will caravan to South Waziristan where we will rally with the people against the wars that have come to their region through US agency over the last few dec...
Read Full Post »Every Person Is Afraid of the Drones: The Strikes's Effect on Life in Pakistan
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:50 PM |
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Interviews with the civilians terrorized daily by American foreign policy The Gardian, Sep/25/2012
Do you remember how it felt in America on 9/11?
The humanitarian worker does. He was in New York City. "I remember people crying in the streets," he says. "People were afraid about what migh...
Read Full Post »Drones: The West's New Terror Campaign
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:35 PM |
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The Guardian, 24/September/2012
Living Under Drones, a new report from Stanford and New York universities, was a difficult piece of fieldwork – I was with the law students in Peshawar as they tried to interview victims of the CIA's drone...
Read Full Post »Should we worry about the rise of the drone?
Posted on October 7, 2012 at 3:00 PM |
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New Yorker, May, 14, 2012
ABSTRACT: THE WORLD OF SURVEILLANCE about drones. The prospect of unmanned flight has been around—depending on your definition—since Archytas of Tarentum reputedly designed a steam-powered mechanical pigeon, in the fourth century B.C., or since Nikola Tesla, in 1898, demonstrated a radio-controlled motorboat at an exposition in Madison Square Garden. By the sixties the Air Force was deploying unmanned reconnaissance jets over Southeast Asia. Still, ...
Read Full Post »Marching To Wazirestan
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:20 AM |
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Marching to Waziristan
by Judy Bello
First thing in the morning I'll board the bus heading for South Waziristan. Thirty five westerners will be heading for Dehr Ismail Khan and on to the border town of Kotkai, including Clive Stafford Smith of the London based organization Reprieve, who started our defending...
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