Tag archive for ‘afghanistan’
International News Roundup
Suicide Bombs Just Won’t Stop Afghanistan took another grieving day today after a Taliban suicide bomber packed a tanker truck chock full of explosives and detonated it in Kandahar’s temporary council office. Felt throughout the city, the bomb killed six people, wounded 40 and caused five houses to cave in on themselves. Few newspapers or [...]
Daily News Roundup: A Quake and Possible Landslide?
Early Wednesday morning a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people and leaving an estimated 15,000 people homeless. Rescuers are currently digging and searching for survivors in the a remote valley in Baluchistan, a province bordering Afghanistan. The worst hit was a British hilltop village of Ziarat and eight surrounding [...]
The World in Brief
Laughter was Forgetting? Recently released Soviet era documents, though often considered questionable sources, have revealed that Milan Kundera, celebrated Czech author of such works as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Ignorance–most dealing with themes of displacement, sacrifice, sex and Totalitarianism–may have informed on a spy friend in order [...]
News from Over Land and Sea(s)
Europe Bearing Us Financial Ill Will “The idea that markets are always right was a mad idea,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy said of our troubles. Though many European countries have been quick to come to our aid, The Economist, an English publication, no less, has pulled no punches with the characterizations it’s made of the [...]
First Presidential Debate: What You Missed
According to most national polls and surveys, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is the winner of Friday’s 2008 presidential debate, the first in the series of three. The Republican nominee Sen. John McCain and Obama debated foreign policy, national security and spent half the time discussing the current economic crisis.
This debate clarified three keys [...]
KCRW Breaks Down the Situation in Iraq & Afghanistan
Photograph Courtesy of Flickr
Ever wonder what it sounds like when people with opposing viewpoints on an issue of gravity have a civil, intellectual conversation about the subject, moderated by someone who actually lives up to the title?
KCRW’s “Which Way, L.A.?” has long been my favorite radio talk show. The host, Warren Olney (who also does [...]
“There was only one catch, and that was Catch-22…”
Travel to a place where sowing narcotics is every townsperson’s career and what do you get?
18,172,517 pounds.
That’s how much opium is produced in Afghanistan a year, responsible for 93% of the world’s supply. Among that, half of it is produced in one area of the country: the wraithlike Helmand Province.
A 58,584 km cosmic desert, [...]
punked
We Americans are different: we think we’re special and the rest of the world thinks we’re especially isolated and willfully ignorant. Newsweek, it turns out, panders to both sides of the equation, printing two dramatically different versions of its weekly magazine– one for domestic readers and a completely different version for foreign readers. Check it [...]
WoT review
War on Terror
A Review of Work Performed, September 2006
I. Update
1) There are 140,000 American young men and women fighting in Iraq and 19,000 fighting in Afghanistan. President Bush claims the period of “employment” for these men and women will not end any time soon and that it will be up to future leaders to [...]
Watada won’t go!
WireTap Magazine posted a piece today on Lt. Ehren Watada, 28, who is facing indictment and imprisonment for refusing to deploy to Iraq. He faces a pretrial hearing this week.
Watada is the first military officer to face charges for opposing the war and the government seems to be pursuing his prosecution to deter further objection [...]
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