End Trump and Bidenâs Secret Bombing Wars
The United States and its allies have dropped more than 326,000 bombs and missiles on people in other countries since 2001.
On February 25, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing twenty-two people. The airstrike has predictably failed to halt rocket attacks on deeply unpopular U.S. bases in Iraq, which the Iraqi National Assembly passed a resolution to close more than a year ago.Â
The U.S. and international media only report on a tiny fraction of the human casualties and mass destruction caused by these hundreds of thousands of airstrikes.
Kazuo Ishiguro, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist whose works include
The Remains Of The Day and
Never Let Me Go, could be talking about a number of his characters, but in this case he s describing the main character in his new novel
Klara And The Sun.
Klara, the book s first-person narrator, is not actually a person but an AF - an Artificial Friend, for sale in a shop window in a not-too-distant future society. She sits, hoping for sunlight and for a child to catch her eye and, maybe, take her home. This happens, eventually, and
Klara And The Sun becomes a poignant, unexpected story about love.
How Dianna Ortiz Exposed U.S. Complicity in Guatemalan War Crimes
An interview with journalist Allan Nairn following her recent death.
Sister Dianna Ortiz
Sister Dianna Ortiz passed away on February 19 from cancer at the age of sixty-two. Ortiz was an Ursuline nun and a human rights activist who worked in the highlands of Guatemala beginning in 1987. In 2004, she wrote the award-winning book
Ortizâs 1995 court case resulted in a $47.5 million judgment against a Guatemalan military official.
Dennis Bernstein, host of Pacifica Radioâs program
Flashpoints, recently interviewed investigative reporter, Allan Nairn, who in 1980 reported from Guatemala in the middle of an assassination campaign targeting student leaders, amid a chaotic counterinsurgency campaign against Marxist guerrillas active in both urban and rural areas.Â
War And Peace – Ceasefire at LOC
Sun Online Desk
28th February, 2021 09:47:58
After four days of deliberation during the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting held virtually in the French capital of Paris a decision regarding Pakistan’s status was taken. Pakistan has to remain in the Greylist until it complies with all the 27 points that it has been asked to meet as a criterion to be moved into the white list.
Due to being on the Greylist since 2008 Pakistan has endured a total loss of USD 38 billion of its GDP. For a cash-starved country, this is a major setback that Pakistan must not take lightly.