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A Photographic Journal of Life in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann

November 15, 2001

George Monbiot
Blasting Our Way
Toward Peace

Steve Perry
Taliban to the Hills?

November 14, 2001

Jensen/Mahajan
The Press Must Press Harder on Afghanistan

David Vest
The Great Unificator

Harry Browne
Preventing Future Terrorism

November 13, 2001

Peter Mahoney
Veteran's Day, 2001

Rep. Ron Paul
Expanding NATO
Is a Bad Idea

November 12, 2001

Robert Jensen
Goodbye to All That...
Patriotism

Nancy Oden
My Day at the Airport

CounterPunch Wire
East Timor 10 Years
After the Massacre

C.G. Estabrook
Instead of Terror

Alexander Cockburn
Wide World of Torture

November 11, 2001

Douglas Valentine
Homeland Insecurity: The Politics of Terror in America

November 10, 2001

Grover Furr
Seeking an Opposition
to the Afghan War

Bruce Kyle
Anatomy of a Green Smear:
Backstabbing Nancy Oden

November 9, 2001

Karen Snell
Torture By Proxy

John Troyer
A New Kind of Activism

Tariq Ali
Q & A About the War

Michael Colby
Schoolgirl Gets Booted
for Anti-war Views

November 8, 2001

Mokhiber/Weissman
The Cipro Rip-Off

Mitchel Cohen
The Smear Campaign
Against Nancy Oden

Steve Perry
American Roulette

November 7, 2001

Bahour/Dahan
Placebo Peace Plan

Tom Turnipseed
Bush Gives Billions
to His Oil Buddies

Cockburn/St. Clair
Greens, Airports and
National ID Cards

Dr. Susan Block
Ayatollah Asscroft

Brian J. Foley
Bombing Campaign Not "Self-Defense" Under International Law

November 6, 2001

Mark Scaramella
Where's That Red Cross Money Going

C.G. Estabrook
Our Torturers

Sheperd Bliss
Scott Nearing on War

Rep. Ron Paul
Underwriting the Taliban

Tariq Ali
The General Who
Came to Dinner

Evan Ravitz
Stop the War Through
Direct Democracy

Steve Perry
Hunger in Afghanistan

November 5, 2001

Patrick Cockburn
Living in the Minefields


David Price
Terror and Indigenous People

November 3, 2001

Declan McCullagh
Nancy Oden Interview

Daniel Wolff
The Memphis Blues Again

Mark Weisbrot
War on Civilians

Dave Marsh
How the RIAA (and the FBI) Cheat Musicians

Robert Jensen
Speaking Out Against
War on Campus

November 2, 2001

CounterPunch Wire
Green Party Leader Detained at Maine Airport; Prevented from Boarding Any Plane

Alexander Cockburn
FBI Eyes Torture

November 1, 2001

Dean Baker
Dying for Patents

Sami Amarah
US Attempts to Recruit
Russian Vets of Afghan War

Molly Secours
Where Are the Voices of Reason? Let the Women
Be Heard

William Blum
Unleashing the CIA

October 31, 2001

Tom Turnipseed
Terrorize the Poor,
Subsidize the Rich

Chris Clarke
Thank God for Berkeley

Steve Perry
The Silent Genocide

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RAWA:
The People of Afghanistan Do Not Accept Rule by Northern Alliance

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Now it is confirmed that the Taliban have left Kabul and the Northern Alliance has entered the city.

The world should understand that the Northern Alliance is composed of some bands who did show their real criminal and inhuman nature when they were ruling Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996.

The retreat of the terrorist Taliban from Kabul is a positive development, but entering of the rapist and looter NA in the city is nothing but a dreadful and shocking news for about 2 million residents of Kabul whose wounds of the years 1992-96 have not healed yet.

Thousands of people who fled Kabul during the past two months were saying that they feared coming to power of the NA in Kabul much more than being scared by the US bombing.

The Taliban and Al-Qaeda will be eliminated, but the existence of the NA as a military force would shatter the joyful dream of the majority for an Afghanistan free from the odious chains of barbaric Taliban. The NA will horribly intensify the ethnic and religious conflicts and will never refrain to fan the fire of another brutal and endless civil war in order to retain in power. The terrible news of looting and inhuman massacre of the captured Taliban or their foreign accomplices in Mazar-e-Sharif in past few days speaks for itself.

Though the NA has learned how to pose sometimes before the West as "democratic" and even supporter of women's rights, but in fact they have not at all changed, as a leopard cannot change its spots.

RAWA has already documented heinous crimes of the NA. Time is running out. RAWA on its own part appeals to the UN and world community as a whole to pay urgent and considerable heed to the recent developments in our ill-fated Afghanistan before it is too late.

We would like to emphatically ask the UN to send its effective peace-keeping force into the country before the NA can repeat the unforgettable crimes they committed in the said years.

The UN should withdraw its recognition to the so-called Islamic government headed by Rabbani and help the establishment of a broad-based government based on the democratic values.

RAWA's call stems from the aspirations of the vast majority of the people of Afghanistan.

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)