DeMilitarization  of The Middl East

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Guardian, 24/September/2012

"The CIA's Predator drones are bringing to Pakistan the same horror that Hitler's doodlebugs inflicted on London"

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...

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, ...

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...