Editor's Comment: Hillary Clinton's "confession" that the U.S. created Al Queda was anything but spontaneous and honest. In this videotaped announcement, she attempted to justify the decision to fund, train and employ Al Queda to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the same argument she tried to justify US aggression... » read this article

I left Guantanamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier -- shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was... » read this article

The Asia Times article below is strewn with US political babble, the US State Department struggling to make complicated deals with people who hate them for obvious good reasons. The author, Amir Mir does a good job of trying to make some sense out of it. Why is the US... » read this article

February 2012 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the US Space Command’s declaration of war on the world, namely its quest to achieve Full Spectrum Dominance of land, sea, air and outer space by 2020, “to close the ever-widening gap between diminishing resources and increasing military commitments”1. Commenting on the Space... » read this article

It didn’t begin with the Haqqanis, or the attack on Kabul. It didn’t even begin with Operation Geronimo–it actually began when President Obama made the blunder of not visiting Pakistan and then going to Delhi. Trying to hide the failure of his administration to sign the Nuclear 123 deal he... » read this article

“You’ve thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled”. Bob Dylan, Masters of War. The use of unmanned drones by the U.S. to attack civilian population with Hellfire missiles is a form of state terrorism. It is designed not to assassinate individuals (extrajudicial killing), but to instil fear and... » read this article

Almost directly in proportion to the nosedive in Washington's ties with its allies in Kabul and Islamabad, Iran has stepped up its political and diplomatic activity over the Afghan problem and the regional situation. Tehran estimates that the United States' relations with the Afghan and Pakistani governments have suffered a... » read this article

Editor's Commentary: Washington-compliant Al Jazeera English (below) and Washington's servile Zardari government in Pakistan both suggest that this attack on the Pakistan Navy was carried out by "terrorists." We have no doubt that this well-planned, well-armed and well-executed attack was carried out by "terrorists" but the question about their identity... » read this article

It was a telling statement. On Wednesday, the US defence secretary Robert M Gates said there was no evidence that anyone In Pakistan's senior leadership knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the garrison city of Abbottabad. He quickly followed it up, however, with his own theory: "Somebody did... » read this article

Patriotism, nationalism and self-sufficiency are myths created to confuse and distract the deprived and the oppressed. National interests in the last analysis are the interests of the ruling classes. In every nation there are two nations, the exploiters and the exploited The episode of Raymond Davis’s release has exposed the... » read this article

LAHORE: US national Raymond Davis, the accused in the double-murder case in Lahore has been released, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah confirmed on Wednesday. The Punjab government claims it played no part in the release of Davis. Sanaullah added that the families of the victims in the Lahore shooting pardoned Davis,... » read this article

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King Raymond Davis' acquittal reflects both, the criminality of the U.S. Government and the corruption of their servile puppet, Asif Ali Zardari, de facto president of Pakistan. Shumaila Kanwal, the wife of one of the men murdered by Davis... » read this article

THE REVOLUTIONS in the Arab streets, whatever their individual outcomes, have already overturned the dominant assumption of global geopolitics — that hundreds of millions of impoverished people will uncomplainingly accept their assignment to the antechamber of hell. The United States, meanwhile, has been faced with the radical obsolescence of its... » read this article

The story of Raymond Allen Davis is one familiar to me and I wish our government would quit doing these things - they cost us credibility.  Davis is the American being held as a spy working under diplomatic cover out of our embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. You can understand why... » read this article

"The one dies into the many ... and the many die into the one." When someone we love dies, it is difficult to speak of them in the past tense because they still remain with us. So it is with Shahid R. Siddiqi who crossed over on February 22, 2011.... » read this article

America scolds Pakistan for having arrested a Consulate security guard for committing double murder in broad daylight. Did he do this in his line of duty? The Killer ‘Diplomat’ On the crispy afternoon of January 27, in crowded downtown Lahore a guy, who later identified himself as Raymond Davis and... » read this article

18 February 2011 Washington ratcheted up pressure on Pakistan this week to drop all criminal charges against a US security operative who gunned down two young men in a busy Lahore market January 26, killing both. Senior Obama administration officials and Congressional leaders have reportedly threatened Pakistan with severe reprisals,... » read this article

(2 articles from Asia Times and Press TV) US and Pakistan square off Asia Times Feb 15, 2011 The United States State Department has announced that the trilateral United States-Pakistan-Afghanistan meeting at foreign minister level, scheduled to take place in Washington on February 23-24, has been indefinitely postponed. Washington ascribes... » read this article

Note from the editor: Tomorrow, February 5, is Kashmir Solidarity Day. See Shahid R. Siddiqi's article on Kashmir published yesterday at Axis of Logic: Today We Are All Seditious! - LMB Warning: Disturbing photos of the Indian occupation of Kashmir follow this article. Indian occupied Kashmir, once called the paradise... » read this article

Editor's Note: We thank Axis of Logic columnist, Shahid Siddiqi for this clarifying message in support of the people of Kashmir. Kashmir solidarity day will be observed on Feb. 5. - Les Blough, Editor In solidarity with the Kashmiris in their freedom struggle, the people of the world who are engaged in... » read this article