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This page contains links on the following categories: General Overview, Afghanistan, Policy Alternatives, and Regional Issues. Scroll down the page to find each section. Check back often -- we will add links periodically.

 

GENERAL OVERVIEW LINKS

Terrorism: Theirs and Ours
Eqbal Ahmad

What Went Wrong: The C.I.A. and the failure of American intelligence Seymour M. Hersh—The New Yorker

How Jimmy and I Created the Mujahedeen
Brzezinski Interview

The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Arudhati Roy (The Guardian)

Ten Things you should know about US Policy Toward the Middle East
Stephen Zunes

September 11 Talking Points
Michael Albert and Stephen R Shalom

Five Arguments Against War
MIchael Albert and Stephen R Shalom

A Brief History of US Interventionism Over Past Century
Zoltan Grossman

Timeline of US MIlitary Interventionism
Zoltan Grossman

Chronology: US Interventions in the Middle East
Stephen R Shalom

Asking Why
Michael Klare

Interview
Phyllis Bennis

Overview of Self-determination Issues in the Middle East
Stephen Zunes

Interview
Noam Chomsky

US Policy Toward Political Islam
Michael Klare

ACTIVISTS' RESOURCES LINK

Excellent Posters on the Current War

AFGHANISTAN LINKS

Fact Sheets on Afghanistan

Just who are our allies in Afghanistan?
'The Alliance have not murdered 7,000 innocent civilians in the US. They have done their massacres on their home turf'
Robert Fisk—The Independent

When Osama Bin Laden Met the Taliban, Who Introduced Them?
Ken Silverstein—Slate

Afghanistan: Country Profile
Jim Lobe and Abid Aslam

1Million may die even if no bombs drop
Terry J. Allen

Afghan Disaster
Chris Buckley

Dont Bomb Afghanistan
Stephen Zunes

The Belly to Do What Needs to Be Done
Tamim Ansary

The Cost of an Afghan Victory
Dilip Hiro

Afghan newspaper with international distribution
http://www.omaid.com/

Afghanistan Information Center
http://www.afghan-info.com/afghnews.htm

Afghanistan Peace Organization
http://www.afghanistan.org/

Afghan Net
http://www.afghanan.net/

Assistance Afghanistan
http://www.pcpafg.org/

Hazar site
http://www.hazara.net/

Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan
http://www.hezb-e-islami.org/

Institute for Afghan Studies
http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/

Northern Alliance site
http://www.afgha.com/

Pakistani newspaper
http://www.dawn.com/

Sabawoon Online
http://www.sabawoon.com/

Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan http://www.wapha.org/

POLICY ALTERNATIVES LINKS

Enlisting the Arabs
Palestine is the key to coalition-building
The Guardian

Main aid agencies reject US air drops
Plea for borders to be reopened after air strikes
Jonathan Steele and Felicity Lawrence—The Guardian

Folly of aid and bombs
George Monbiot—The Guardian

We can feed the starving Afghan millions or mount a military campaign. We can't do both
George Monbiot—The Guardian

A Just Response
We must act effectively but within a framework of moral and legal restraints
Richard Falk—The Nation

There is a legal way out of this... as long as it is handled as an act of international crime, not one of war
Geoffrey Robertson—The Guardian

An Alternative To US Employment of Military Force
Michael Ratner

International Crime, Not War
Tom Barry and Martha Honey

What Bin Laden and Global Warming Have in Common
Robert M Cutler

REGIONAL ISSUES LINKS

Uzbekistan Country Profile
Jim Lobe—Foreign Policy in Focus

Streets burn with hatred as Blair visits newest ally War on terrorism: Pakistan
Peter Popham in Peshawar—The Independent

Six-pronged Taliban strategy to meet US plan
Kamran Khan—The News International Pakistan

Assault to get Osama in Pamir has begun
Nusrat Javeed—The News International Pakistan

Royal Mess: Saudi Arabia and its Discontents (from 1994)
Leslie and Andrew Cockburn—The New Yorker

Asking Why? (Some important context on Saudi Arabia's role)
Michael Klare—Foreign Policy In Focus

The Kingdom of Corruption
Tariq Ali

Pakistan's Vice
Vijay Prashad

March to the Brink of Battle
The Guardian
Part 1
Part 2

 

 

 

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