A week ago, at the small guest house where friends and I stayed while visiting Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV) in Bamiyan,…
Kabul– Khamad Jan, age 22, remembers that, as a youngster, he was a good student who enjoyed studying. “Now, I can’t seem to…
In the early 1970’s, I spent two summers slinging pork loins in a Chicago meat-packing factory. Rose Packing Company paid a handful…
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably…
Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to…
For six days in late May, 2010, Emergency, an Italian NGO providing surgery and basic health care in Afghanistan since 1999, welcomed…
Islamabad–On May 12th, the day after a U.S. drone strike killed 24 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, two men from the area…
In May of 2009, under tremendous pressure from the United States, the Pakistani military began a large-scale military operation in the Swat…
If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan, over the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dan Pearson: 312.286.8535 January 24, 2010 Kathy Kelly: 773.619.2418 Washington, D.C. Joshua Brollier 931.436.3616 Minnesota Contingent of…
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