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Today's Stories

April 28 / 29, 2007

Alexander Cockburn
Is Global Warming a Sin?

April 27, 2007

Eva Liddell
How Can Women Defend Themselves Against Stalkers?

Phyllis Bennis
and Robert Jensen

Moving Beyond Anti-War Politics

Mike Whitney
Where's the Beef?: Padilla and the Zucchini Prosecution

Michael F. Brown
Biden and Pelosi: Failing to Hold Israel Accountable for War Crimes in Lebanon

Jordan Flaherty
Forgotten Mississippi

Margaret Kimberly
John McCain, Cold-Blooded Senator

Christopher Brauchli
The Dangers of Unstable People

Jacob Mundy
Stalemate in the Western Sahara?

Website of the Day
Yee Speaks


April 26, 2007

Andrew Cockburn
Wolfowitz's War

Franklin Lamb
Giuliani Plays the Islamic Terror Card

Patrick Cockburn
Al-Qa'ida Group Behind US Deaths in Iraq

Roger Morris
Dispatches From the Front

Henry Siegman
The Three Nos of Jerusalem

Alevtina Rea
A Sister City Debate in Rachel Corrie's Hometown

Paris
Are You a Hip Hop Apologist?

Nikolas Kozloff
White Racism and the Aymara in Bolivia

Alan Farago
Dow 13,000 Disconnect

Matthew S. Miller
The Limits to Lakoff

Website of the Day
PBS: Blaming Blacks Again


April 25, 2007

Sharon Smith
The Rights of Children in America

David Price
The Long Lost War

Diana Johnstone
Who Wants Sarko? New or Old France?

Brendan Cooney
Cho and Cheney: Killer Looks

Sonja Karkar
Israeli Democracy, For Jews Only?

Brian Concannon
Wolfowitz and Haiti

Lee Gaillard
Baptism Under Fire: Can the Osprey Fly?

Leah Fishbein
Women Under Siege

Dave Lindorff
The First Shoe Drops

Neal Galloway
US Agricultural Policy is Destructive at Home and Abroad

Website of the Day
Anti-War Student Movements: a Short History

 

April 24, 2007

Ishmael Reed
How Imus' Media Collaborators Almost Rescued Their Chief

Lila Rajiva
Tragedy and Irony After Virginia Tech

Paul Craig Roberts
The War Goes Ever On

Patrick Cockburn
Sunnis Protest Baghdad's "Prison Wall"

Ralph Nader
The Corporate Debasement of Earth Day

Mike Whitney
Housing Bubble Boondoggle

Website of the Day
"Refugees"

 

April 23, 2007

Saul Landau
The Courage to Withdraw

Patrick Cockburn
Time of the Death Squads: Iraq as Revenge Tragedy

Robert Fantina
Changing Sentiments

Sam Husseini
The Gonzales Distraction

Corporate Crime Reporter
Bought-and-Paid-For Journalism at the Philly Inquirer

Elizabeth Lalasz
Sick and Getting Sicker

Harvey Wasserman
Earth Day, Incorporated

Dave Lindorff
Huge Win for Impeachment in Vermont: Are You Listening Sen. Leahy?

Gary Leupp
Maoist Homophobia in Nepal?

Stephen Lendman
A Short History of the Christian Right

Website of the Day
No to OLF


April 21 / 22, 2007

Alexander Cockburn
Bring Back the Posse

Fred Gardner
Prozac Madness

Kristoffer Larsson
The Islamic Threat to Europe: By the Numbers

Barbara Rose Johnston
Nuclear War and Its Consequences

Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The Heart of Whiteness: Racism, Wealth and IQ

John Scagliotti
Unlocking Closets, Locking Free Speech

Marjorie Cohn
Gonzo Justice: Counting on Alberto

Patrick Cockburn
Sadr Raises the Stakes

Diana Johnstone
The Absent Middle East

Ron Jacobs
Explaining the Spectre

Evelyn Pringle
How Iraq Was Looted

BANCO
Travesties of Justice in a Black City in Michigan: the Persecution of Rev. Pinkney

Paul Richards
Thinking Big in the Northern Rockies

Dan Bacher
Zapatistas in the Colorado River Delta

Ben Terrall
Showdown at Chevron: SF Protest Against New Iraq Oil Law

Sherwood Ross
How the Taliban Defeated the Pakistani Army in Waziristan

Remi Kanazi
Bill Maher's "Towel-Headed Hos"

Aseem Shrivastava
Behind the Curtain of SEZs

Poets' Basement
Valentine, Reed, Harley and Engel

Website of the Day
Reading Sappho in New Orleans

 

April 20, 2007

Doug Peacock
Beginning of the End for the Yellowstone Grizzly?

Diane Farsetta
Onward, Free Market Soldiers!: Privatizing Public Diplomacy

Tom Clifford
The Surge in Iraqi Civilian Deaths: the Bloodiest 12 Months of the War

Amira Hass
The Holocaust as Political Asset

Nicole Colson
Desperation in Gitmo's Camp 6

Sonja Karkar
Double Jeopardy Entraps Palestinians

Heather Gray
The Supreme Court Looks a Lot Like the Taliban

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
Syrian Expeditions

Agustin Velloso
Spain and Iraq, Four Years On

Matthew Koehler
Distorting the News in a Timber Company Town

Website of the Day
Gonzo's Monica

 

April 19, 2007

Emad Mekay /
Jim Lobe
Scoring at the World Bank: Wolfowitz's Quid Pro Quo

Patrick Cockburn
A Day of Bombs and Blood in Baghdad

Larry C. Johnson
The Hobbesian Hell of Iraq: How Many Dead Equal a Failed Government?

Norman Solomon
Bowing Down to Our Own Violence

Saul Williams
Notes from a Hip Hop Head: an Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey

Sunsara Taylor
From Iraq to the Supreme Court: a New Dark Ages for Women

Harvey Wasserman
How Green is Tom Friedman?

Christopher Brauchli
Apologies, Incorporated

Anthony Papa
Nightmare Behind Bars: John Valverde's Fight for Freedom

Dave Lindorff
Betraying Thomas Jefferson

Website of the Day
The Best Antiwar Song of the Iraq War?


April 18, 2007

Lila Rajiva
More Gun Laws or Fewer Idiots? How the Va Tech Administration Failed Its Campus

Landau / Hassen
Tancredo as 17th Century Indian Chief?

Charles Fisher /
Randy Fisher

Don Imus's Firing and the Hip-Hop Culture

Diane Christian
Facing Death Politically

Kevin Prosen
Meeting the Resistance in Iraq

China Hand
Gold Digging: The U.S. Treasury Department's Economic Campaign Against North Korea

Peter Rost, MD
The Strange Profits from a Re-Branded Cancer Drug

Justin Akers Chacón
What's Inside the STRIVE Bill

Jerry Kroth
Virginia Tech and Cho Seung Hui: Love and Unhappiness in an Alien Culture

Sherwood Ross
Massacre at Va Tech: a Brief Glimpse into Daily Life in Iraq

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Bonfire of the Hannities

Alice Cherbonnier
Why South Dakota's "Informed Consent" Law Doesn't Go Far Enough

Website of the Year?
"I Hope I Die Before I Get Old"

 

April 17, 2007

Jean Bricmont /
Diana Johnstone
The Elections in France: a Coming Political Tsunami

Paul Craig Roberts
Bloodbath in Blacksburg

Frida Berrigan
Militarizing the Border

Alison Weir
The Message of PBS's "Crossroads" Series: Some Muslims Aren't Bad

John Walsh
Why is the Peace Movement Silent About AIPAC?

Jason Hribal
Resistance is Futile: Emily the Cow and Tyke the Elephant

Evelyn Pringle
The Iraq Money Trail

Ben Terrall
Cuban Exiles Get Hero's Welcome; Haitian Refugees Get Shafted

Stan Cox
1040s and Death Certificates

Soren Ambrose
Confidence Crisis at the IMF

Website of the Day
Go Ahead and Yell: "FIRE!"

 

April 16, 2007

John F. Sugg
Hate and Hypocrisy in the Cox Empire

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Escalating Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise

Carl G. Estabrook
The Politics of the Useful Threat: It Didn't Start with the Neo-Cons

Paul Craig Roberts
The Party of Brownshirts

Uri Avnery
Blood on Our Hands

Ralph Nader
Where Are the Cries of Outrage Over Military Rapes?

Eamon McCann
Shame of the Empire: Simon, Sir Bono and Tinkerbelle

Lee Sustar
Decoding the Democrats

Mike Whitney
Trouble in Squanderville: Bubble People and the Faith-Based Market

Don Fitz
Solar Capitalism?

Stephen Lendman
Ecuador Votes for Revolutionary Change

Website of the Day
Black Mesa Water Coalition

 

April 14 / 15, 2007

Alexander Cockburn
Ho Industry Whores

Jorge Mariscal
Gen. Petraeus's Field Manual: a Traveler's Guide to Big Muddy

Jeffrey St. Clair
The Beautiful and the Dammed: How the West Got Flooded

Dave Marsh
The Imus Affair, Hip Hop and Politics

Dr. Trudy Bond
Shrinks, Lies and Torture: How Psychologists Became the Pentagon's Bitches

Joe Bageant
A Feral Dog Howls in Harvard Yard

Fidel Castro
The Terrorist Walks

Alfredo Molano
"More Than Complicated"

Alan Farago
When Miami Crashes

Michael Neumann
Anglophone Fantasies and French Realities

Fred Gardner
Barbara McNair's Unsung Heroism: Bringing Down the Owner of EST

Ron Jacobs
A Conversation with Three Iraq Veterans Against the War

Gail Dines
Racy Sex, Sexy Racism

Linda Ford
Imus and Lady Hoopsters: a Long History of Bias Against Women Athletes

Missy Beattie
What Would Imus Do?: Iraq, Ho, Ho, Ho

Dan La Botz
Farm Labor Organizer Murdered in Mexico

Giuliana Sgrena
The Lies of Mario Lozano

Laura Carlsen
A Moratorium on Free Trade Agreements

Abu Spinoza
Wolfowitz's Real Crimes

Elizabeth Schulte
Grinding It Out with Quentin Tarantino

Poets' Basement
Davies, Harley, Engel and Landau

Website of the Weekend
Vonnegut's Final Interview

 

April 13, 2007

Patrick Cockburn
The Shattering of Mosul

Stephen Soldz
Aid and Comfort for Torturers: Psychology and Coercive Interrogations in Historical Perspective

George Ciccarriello-Maher
The Failed Chávez Coup: Five Years On

Laith al-Saud
Kirkuk, Oil and the Kurds

Dave Zirin
Memo to Imus

John Ross
Drawing a Line in the Heartland

Ramzy Baroud
America as Proxy

Harvey Wasserman
The Novelist Who Hated War: Peace Be With You, Mr. Vonnegut

Lopez, Olivo and Garcia
Columbia University's Two-Tiered Punishments

Dols, Fukumori, Judd and Tillett-Saks
Columbia: On the Wrong Side of Justice

Website of the Day
Democrats: an Iraq Scorecard

 

April 12, 2007

JoAnn Wypijewski
We May be Rid of Imus, But We're Still Stuck with the Culture

Paul Craig Roberts
Big Profits from Big Brother

Marjorie Cohn
U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights

Evelyn Pringle
Bush Family War Profiteering: Will Congress Finally Cut Them Off?

Ron Jacobs
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut

Norman Solomon
The Awful Truth About Hillary, Barack and John

Joe DeRaymond
The Release of Dennis Counterman: The Justice Game, the Alford Plea and Death Row

Nicola Nasser
Squeezing Palestinians into an Impossible Mission

Nikolas Kozloff
Chile, a Country Geographically Located in South America "By Accident"

William S. Lind
Horatio Hornblower's Worst Nightmare

Siegfried L. Sassoon
A Statement Against the Continuation of the War

Website of the Day
Where You Want This Killin' Done?

 


April 11, 2007

R. T. Naylor
Quebec's Lessons for the US: How "Wars on Terror" Should be Fought

Vijay Prashad
The Generation of IEDs and iPods

Patrick Cockburn
The Myth of Tal Afar

Winslow T. Wheeler
When Will the War Money Really Run Out?

Jack Balkwill
Prison for a Peacemaker: A Vietnam Vet Interviews Kathy Kelly

Alan Farago
Florida's Fundamentally Weak Environmental Movement

Russell D. Hoffman
The Carbon Offset Tax is Just Another Nuke Bailout

Peter Rost, MD
The Fine Print on Drug Industry Kickbacks

Mike Whitney
Doomsday for the Greenback?

Dave Lindorff
Torture and Selective Outrage

Susie Day
Peter Pace Porks a Peck of Pinko Perverts

Website of the Day
Save the Internet!

 

April 10, 2007

James G. Abourezk
How Syria Helped the US in the "War on Terror"-and How Bush Said "Thanks"

Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Why Imus Should be Fired-And Why He Won't Be

Joshua Frank
Democrats for War

Lee Sustar
How Concessions by UAW Lost Jobs

Joseph Grosso
Tiger Woods in Dubai: Luxury and Exploitation

Nirmal Ghosh
China and the Fate of the Tiger

Robert Jensen
Impeach the System

Ramzy Baroud
Not an Intellectual Squabble

Paul Rockwell
History Will Vindicate Lt. Ehren Watada

Mario Joseph and
Brian Concannon

Solidaridad? Chávez in Haiti

Fred Wilhelms
Why the New Royalty Rates Hurt Artists

Website of the Day
Thaw!

 

April 9, 2007

Saul Landau
Whining Imperialists

Uri Avnery
Shalom, Shin Bet

Nicole Colson
Sami Al-Arian's Nightmare: an Interview with Nahla Al-Arian

Gideon Levy
Israel Does Not Want Peace

Corporate Crime Reporter
Big Coal Invokes Reverse Nuremberg Defense

Evelyn Pringle
The Surge in Casualties

Hill Kemp
Mega Lessons from Iraq War, Year 5

Martha Rosenberg
Monsanto's Desperate Plea: "Regulate Our Competitors!"

Keith Rosenthal
Behind Boston's Recent "Crime Wave"

Jane Stillwater
Green Zone Cabin Fever

Website of the Day
Support Norman Finkelstein


April 7 / 8, 2007

Alexander Cockburn
Dead Dogs Don't Bleed: How Giuliani Lost America

Sara Roy
A Jewish Plea

Arno J. Mayer
Back to Cleopatra's Nose: Bush-Bashing and Empire's Onward March

Jeffrey St. Clair
In the Realm of the Grizzly Kings

Vicente Navarro
Why Huntington and Beck Are Wrong

Fidel Castro
Where Have All the Bees Gone? And Other Reflections on the Internationalizaton of Genocide

Fred Gardner
Medical News from the Business Pages

Ralph Nader
The IRS Owes You Money

David N. Rahni
Test Tube Zealots: American Chemical Society Purges Iranian Chemists

Arthur Neslen
When an Anti-Semite is Not an Anti-Semite

Pratyush Chandra
Joseph Stiglitz's "Another World"

Missy Beattie
Enough Already! The Politics of Exasperation

Marc Levy
A Beginner's Guide to Combat

Poets' Basement
Reiss, Holt, Orloski and Louise

Website of the Weekend
Reactor Man

 

April 6, 2007

Franklin Lamb
Why is Hezbollah on the Terrorism List?

Gloria La Riva
On the Case of the Cuban Five and Luis Posada Carriles

Corporate Crime Reporter
The Politics of Coal in West Virginia

Ron Jacobs
Good Friday, Beethoven and Patti Smith

Felice Pace
Simon Says: The Pro-Israel Bias of NPR

Walter Brasch
Treason in the White House?

David Swanson
Heroes, Sung and Unsung

Sylvia Syracuse
Roadside Rampage: Salvadoran Murders in Guatemala


April 5, 2007

Patrick Cockburn
A De Facto Hostage Exchange

Tom Barry
The Fred Thompson Factor

Richard W. Behan
Congressional Complicity

Nicola Nasser
Playing US Politics with Iraqi Blood for Oil

Bernadine Dohrn
The New and Old SDS: Convergence Not Division

Laray Polk
Lucky Dragon: Does the World Really Need a New H-Bomb?

Helen Redmond
Female Chauvinist Pigs?

 

April 4, 2007

Col. Dan Smith
"Have You No Sense of Decency?": the Tillman Affair and the Moral Decay of the Army

Joshua Frank
Democratic Blood Money: Sen. Feinstein's War Profiteering

Margaret Kimberly
Of Confessions and Torture

Sharon Smith
Circuit City's Guinea Pigs: the Latest Trend in Corporate America

Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Martin Luther King,Jr.
Beyond Vietnam

Bill Quigley
Incident at Fort Huachuca, the Army's Torture Training Center

Dave Zirin
Picking Chicago's Pockets with the Olympics

Evelyn Pringle
Drug Companies Want Women of Childrearing Years

Peter Rost, MD
Pfizer's Puny Fine

Website of the Day
Crash of the Honey Bees

 

April 3, 2007

Patrick Cockburn
US's Bungled Plan to Kidnap Iran's Top Spook Prompted hostage Taking

Marjorie Cohn
Coming Up Short on Habeas Corpus for Gitmo Detainees

Brian M. Downing
The Army's Road to Iraq

Corporate Crime Reporter
Coddling Pfizer: Praise the Criminal, Dis the Whistleblower

Carol Norris
A Psychologist on Sexual Assault: Yes, Virginia, There is a Sollution

Ralph Nader
Tailpipe Blues

Dave Lindorff
I Quit: A Movement of One (Or a Maybe a Million)

Scott Bontz
The Great Depletion

Thomas Dolby
Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Racism and the National Anthem

Website of the Day
Cockburn on BookTV


April 2, 2007

Gary Leupp
A Bogus Hostage Crisis

Uri Avnery
Condi in the Middle East: Olmert and the Pussycat

James Petras
Palestine: The Political Economy of a Disaster

Norman Solomon
McCain in Baghdad: Walking in McNamara's Footsteps

Robert Fisk
War of Humiliation

Stanley Heller
A Neocon Looks Two Conquests Ahead: The Ravings of James Woolsey

Sherwood Ross
How the Pentagon Cheats Iraq Vets Out of Medical Care and Disability Pay

Monica Benderman
On Keeping Men Alive: Report from Ft. Stewart

Stephen Fleischman
Winners and Losers in a Dog-Eat-Dog System

Anne McElroy Dachel
Never Mind the Mercury

Website of the Day
Midwestern Common Sense on the War


March 31 / April 1, 2007

Cockburn / St. Clair
That Was an Antiwar Vote?

Fred Gardner
How Corrupt is Malcolm Gladwell? Shilling for Enron and Breast Cancer

Greg Moses
The Pirates of Homeland Security

Gary Leupp
300 vs. Iran (and Herodotus)

Robert Fisk
Shakespeare and War

Roger Morris
The Politics of the Witch Hunt

Conn Hallinan
The Price of Fire: Oil, Water and Resistance in Bolivia

Kristin J. Anderson
A Protocol for Death

Jason Hribal
California's Most Unhappy Cows

John Ross
Strange Fruit Down South

Christopher Brauchli
Bush and the Politics of Falsehoods: If You're Going to Lie, Lie Big

David Underhill
War Breeds Stranger Bedfellows

Elizabeth Schulte
The Pentagon's "Don't Ask" Disaster

Ben Terrall
Time for Lula to Stop Doing Bush's Dirty Work in Haiti

Missy Beattie
Guess Who Isn't Coming to Dinner: The Story of King Abdullah and the O-Word

Sonja Karkar
How Palestine Became Israel's Land

Daniel Wolff
Have You Heard the News?

David Vest
A Romanian Jazz Rebel Drops a Bomb on Paris

Ron Jacobs
Wynton Marsalis Checks In on the Land That Never Has Been Yet

Poets' Basement
Davies, Holt, Wigley and Landau

Website of the Weekend
Kansas City Rocks

 

 

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"Mission Accomplished" Weekend Edition
April 28 / 29, 2007

Time for a Combative Mobilization of the People

Freeing Afghanistan

By RAWA

For years it was only RAWA speaking out loudly against the bloody event of April 28 (start of Fundamentalists' Rule), calling it more odious than that of April 27 (start of the rule by the Russian puppets). Now every individual and group denounces this gloomy day, except a bunch of cowardly intellectuals because of the irritating stench that is coming out of the April 28 champions who hold the power in Afghanistan today. The people who demonstrated against the corrupted governors, MPs and even set afire pictures of the criminal Sayyaf in his home town, now want to see them all annihilated politically. Their desire is very natural because:

* Five years since the US and her allies invasion, the Afghan people's level of the misery and agony is rises at an alarming rate.

* The American forces act so reckless and hasty in killing innocent civilians everyday, that they seem to have come here for taking revenge of the 3,000 victims of the 9/11 from the people rather than to targeting the terrorist of their own creation, the Taliban. The death toll of these innocents throughout Afghanistan is now much higher than that of 9/11. This has indeed provoked and enraged the wrath of the people, encouraging the Taliban terrorists, who definitely receive the maximum benefits.

* Instead of explaining the reasons for spending billions of dollars in waste, the corrupted heroin-lord Ministers impudently talk about their "achievements" through a mockery show during "Accountability Week".

* The top US-Karzai backed criminals of the Northern Alliance, such as Sayyaf, Rabbani, Qanoni, Khalili, Kazimi, Dostum, Chakari, Massoud Zia, Mohaqiq, Anwari, Atta, Dr. Abdullah, Ismail, Danish and alike were not put on trial. Instead the government has allowed these scoundrels to pass the heinous bill of so-called National Reconciliation, which only paves the way for their own exoneration. These Northern Alliance thugs recently formed the National Front by joining with the Khalqies and Parchamies, Gulbaddinis, Taliban elements and some bankrupt followers of Zahir Shah. Such a display only proves that criminals like Gulabzoy, Ulomi, Ranjbar, and Rabbani, Qanoni, Kazimi and others unite when the time comes for them to feel the rage and hate of the people they have victimized rise up against them. The most disgusting point of this farce is the presence of Mustafa Zahir in the Front, who in fact drove the last nail in the coffin of the "father of the nation" and royalist! s. Mustafa, who aligns himself with the infamous Rabbani, recalls the great poet Shelley who wrote: "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest".

* The US first installed the Northern Alliance criminals. Now they find ways to share power with Gulbaddin, Taliban terrorists, using Mojaddedi, their former godfather as the mediator just to get out from the current swamp. This indicates more than ever the dependency of the Afghan government and the true nature of the so called "War on Terrorism." As has been proven again and again, the US and the UN look only for their vested interest in Afghanistan and do not care for the freedom, democracy and prosperity of Afghan people. The Bush Administration and the UN bring the most insane fundamentalists and Khalqies and Purchamies traitors to one table, and once they grind their teeth to each other, they will use one against another.

* The CIA has unleashed Jabar Sabet on his various rivals through the drama of "enforcing law and justice" to fan the flame of the enmity between them. When he fiercely clashed with Atta Mohammad or one of the corrupt family members of Mojaddedi, the CIA just stared and kept deadly silence.

* Tolo TV was attacked and the government failed to stop the Taliban's vicious beheadings of Saeed Agha and Ajmal Naqshbandi. Such acts should awaken the media and show them the root cause of the entire government's corrupt nature, instead the media simply point to this or that particular government official, such as Khuram or Sabet. They can prove their loyalty to the people only when fearlessly disclosing the true face of the government and its support countries.

* The pro-government intellectuals and politicians cry, blaming Pakistan as the only cause of Afghanistan's ongoing tragedies. Yet they forget that many of their lords like Rabbani, Massoud, Sayyaf, Qanoni and others grew up, were nurtured and became "leaders" through the ISI with some still continuing to worship this agency. On the other hand, suppose this or that circle in Pakistan stopped supporting the Taliban, will the current crisis end? Will the barbaric rule of the Northern Alliance criminals cease? Afghanis who love their country know the answer: "No!" With the Iranian regime's interference obviously being far more dreadful than that of Pakistan's, Karzai cannot wrap his government's failures in this garb any longer.

* Made up of treacherous fundamentalists and former darlings of Moscow, Karzai introduced his so-called "Crisis Committee", whose composition and subject matter vary only slightly from that of the National Front's. It is better to compare it to a fist against a kick by the murderous National Front, who aligned with them, thus betraying the people's vote and confidence. Evidence of the anti-people nature of both the "Crisis Committee" and the "National Front" is found in their joint jubilation on the Black Day of April 28th as well as their mutual call to release the murderer Asadullah Sarwari on the bogus basis of the so-called "National Reconciliation Bill."

A rein of terror imposed by the Taliban and the "Northern Alliance" terrorists prevailed across the country and requires fearless struggle. The last five years have given a clear message to our people, particularly the anti-fundamentalists and democratic forces, that neither the US nor any outside force can liberate this ill-fated nation from the fetters of the fundamentalists. Instead we require a decisive and united struggle, relying on our own power, courage, and daring sacrifice as we unite with freedom-loving people around the world.

Although the Afghan people have a history of resisting foreign aggressors, they have shown patience and tolerance to the internal tyrants. It is the duty of revolutionary and anti-fundamentalist forces to unite all the misery-stricken people against all brands of fundamentalism. Disappointment yields nothing for us!

The traitors of April 28 and April 27 combined their forces to tighten the grip over the people. Only a mass uprising can break up these anti-people forces. We will not be deterred in our devotion to a free and safe Afghanistan.

You may find photos and movie clips of RAWA protest rally on April 28, 2007 at: http://www.rawa.org/events/

 

 

 

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