Making an Impact on #AfghanistanTuesday

IW: This gives lots of good suggestions on what to tweet for #AfghanistanTuesday. October 6, 2011, marks ten years of U.S. war against Afghanistan. Ordinary Americans are saying, “Enough is enough!” One of the ways they are showing how they feel is by making time every week to remember what’s happening in Afghanistan and push […]

United for Peace and Justice Issues Weekly Afghanistan War Reports; Nation Interviews Matthew Hoh (via Peace and Justice Online)

A recent edition of United for Peace and Justice’s  “Afghanistan War Weekly” notes that President Obama has “reaffirmed his commitment to ‘win’ the war.”  The report also points out that much of President Obama’s recent speech, as well as the Executive Summary of the administration’s annual report, discusses Pakistan’s crit … Read More via Peace […]

‘What Happens if We Stay in Afghanistan’: A Response to TIME Magazine (via The War Resisters League Blog)

WRL has recently endorsed the response to the TIME Magazine article “What Happens if We Stay in Afghanistan” written by South Asia Solidarity Initiative. The TIME article, featuring a front-page cover of a disfigured Afghani woman, tells the story of a woman’s life under the Taliban, concluding that the US war in Afghanistan is beneficial […]