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U.S. Launches Another Deadly Drone Strike in Pakistan

A report in Pakistan indicates top civil and military leadership will shoot down any drone entering into Pakistani airspace.

(SALEM) - After a gap of nearly two months, American CIA drones have resumed operations in Pakistan and during the past 72 hours, two such attacks in North Waziristan have claimed nine lives.

The Thursday raid in Dogga area of NWA claimed five lives, while earlier on Tuesday, a similar attack had killed four innocent civilians.

What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him in Prison to Keep Him from Telling?

Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administration's reason for going to war against Iraq.

(WASHINGTON D.C. ) - By all accounts, Ken Ford, Jr. reputed to be a computer whiz, was an upwardly mobile, trusted, young African American man who was so trusted that he worked his way into a security clearance that fewer than 150 people have in the entire United States.

His work reports were good. And Ken considered himself lucky.

Afghanistan: A Non-Kosher U.S. Taliban Deal

All these non-kosher dealings will stall the peace process until there is sound leadership in Kabul.

(SEATTLE) - Taliban and "peace mission" -- these words do not fit together in the minds of Afghans who know the Taliban's history.

But they are the words that we have seen in recent publications, stating that the Taliban intend to open a "peace mission" office in Qatar.

Faces of Oregon war dead

Oregonians from 70 towns have been killed in the fighting overseas...

(PORTLAND) - The Sunday Oregonian rightly welcomed an Oregon Army National Guard battalion home from Afghanistan.

But we need also note that, according to the Pentagon, at least 93 military members who claimed home towns in Oregon have died in the Iraq and AfPak wars. The Oregonian counts 111 because its criteria is that a GI need only have "some tie" to Oregon or SW Washington to be counted.

How to Deal with Legacies of Conflict in Afghanistan?

Certain initiatives—whether locally-driven or at the national level—have the potential to provide a measure of comfort to conflict victims while paving the way for a more enduring peace.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - There are millions of conflict victims in Afghanistan and the ongoing fighting creates new suffering every day.

With a complex and contested wartime history, how can a way forward be found that satisfies victims’ demands for justice and healing while delivering the peace that is so desired.

IRAN War: The planned omnicide by American and European leaders

How will nuking of Iran affect the Indian sub-continent and the world?

(NEW DELHI) - The Union of Concerned Scientists recently have warned that, should the USA use nuclear weapons in Iran, of say 1 megaton yield, it would kill 3 million people in Iran and another 35 million will die of radiation fallout in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

A simple representation of the computer simulation below shows how radioactive wind will blow first 48 hours.

Urging Obama to Stop Rush to Iran War

War propaganda against Iran floods America's political scene; ex-CIA analysts Ray McGovern and Elizabeth Murray urge President Obama to stop it.

(ROME) - President Obama needs to put an abrupt halt to the game of Persian Roulette about to spin out of control in the Persian Gulf. If we were still on active duty at the CIA, this is what we would tell him:

This informal memorandum addresses the escalating game of chicken playing out in the waters off Iran and the more general issue of what can be done to put the exaggerated threat from Iran in some kind of perspective.

The Manas Question: Drugs, Revolution and Terrorism

For years the Manas air base near the central Asian republic of Kyrgyz capital of Bishke has been at the centre of a string of allegations revolving around drug-running, terrorism and stage-managed revolutions.

(MANAS, Kyrgyzstan) - The Manas Air Base, situated near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, Afghanistan, has played a key role in the increasingly important Central Asian region since its inception.

First opened in December 2001 to support the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Manas Air Base plays host to the US Ninth Air Force and serves primarily as a transit point for US goods and personnel coming and going from Afghanistan.

Global March To Jerusalem المسيرة العالمية إلى القدس

World March to Jerusalem 2012 اعضا اللجنة المرکزیة للمسيرة العالمية إلى القدس یدعوا الناس للمشارکة فی هذة الحرکة فی 30 اذار

(SALEM) - They say 2012 will be the year of great change, and part of what may be a tilting mechanism for goodwill, happens in March in one of the world's most hotly contested regions.

A convergence of human beings of all faiths, involving thousands of people, will culminate in a large-scale rendezvous for peace in Jerusalem.

Politicians Want your Kid`s Blood and Guts Spilled in Iran

Attack Persia... and We'll Break America in Two

(SALEM) - The seemingly inevitable war with Iran that warmongers are calling for must be something we all deserve- as the human cretins who have ruined this planet with ways of war and violence.

Regardless of how nonsensical it is, or how little sense it makes, American politicians who are parading as Christians, are piling on the propaganda about Iran and they are trying desperately to gain sufficient momentum to plunge this already pathetic country into its final showdown: World War Three.