Outrage as US Forces Attack Afghan Hospital

No Explanation Given as Troops Force Their Way in, Tie Up Staff by Jason Ditz, AntiWar The charity group Swedish Committee for Afghanistan expressed outrage today in reporting a US attack on a remote hospital being operated by the group. The troops burst in to the hospital without explanation and conducted a full and rather [...]

Noam Chomsky Interview on CBC

(Watch as a young, conformist, media establishment fledgling gets and education from one of the greatest minds of our time.) “The immediate problem is to free ourselves from the shackles imposed, very consciously, by the kind of people you are talking about. Who don’t want the facts to be known, for very good reason.  Because [...]

Anger at Israeli settlement plan (Settlement “freeze” is “off the table”)

from the BBC Israel has officially approved the construction of more than 450 new homes in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli defence ministry has announced. This is the first new government-approved construction project in the West Bank since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to power in March. It comes despite US pressure to halt [...]