“Why?” by Mumia Abu-Jamal, September 17th 2001 (copyright Mumia Abu-Jamal 2001) this introduction is found in the pamphlet S11: Truth and Consequences (Solidarity-Arm the Spirit 2001, ISBN 1-894820-35-5), available for $2.75 US from Kersplebedeb (email me for details ) The woman’s voice on the phone was as plaintive as a …
The Forgotten Terrorists By Mumia Abu-Jamal, September 28th 2001 (copyright Mumia Abu-Jamal 2001) This text is found in the pamphlet S11: Truth and Consequences (Solidarity-Arm the Spirit 2001, ISBN 1-894820-35-5), available for $2.75 US from Kersplebedeb (email me for details ) For far too many Americans, the word “terrorism” has …
Bush, Recent Convert to Feminism, Defends the Rights of Afghan Women in His Own Unique Way Naomi Jaffe For at least two years now, an email petition has been circulating on feminist and progressive lists about the horrifying plight of Afghan women under the Taliban. If it came to me …
Even In The Ruins Race Matters  by Playthell Benjamin (from Black World Today 9/27/2001)  One morning a few days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center a young Afro-American woman called in to C-Span and asked whether all the talk about the new unity of purpose being forged …
Ohuio 7 anti-imperialist political prisoner examines the political repression that has come down following the September 11th attacks.
Threat of U.S. strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack Jonathan Steele, Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ed Harriman Saturday September 22, 2001 The Guardian  Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York …
A Message to Troops, Would-be Troops and Other Youth By Jeff Paterson Note: On August 30, 1990, 22-year-old Marine Corporal Jeff Paterson refused to board a military plane in Hawaii heading to Saudi Arabia. He was the first active-duty military resister in the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. The photo of …
After the Taliban, women still suffer Kidnappings and wife beatings go on, three years after the liberation of Afghans from the Taliban regime Declan Walsh in KandaharSunday November 7, 2004The Observer Eyes darting back and forth, crouching against a wall, Anar Gul has the distressed look of a chained animal. …
by way of introduction… this introduction is found in the pamphlet S11: Truth and Consequences (Solidarity-Arm the Spirit 2001, ISBN 1-894820-35-5), available for $2.75 US from Kersplebedeb (email me for details ) Passenger planes smash into the symbols of American economic and military power – longtime symbols of unspeakable human …
Fighting the Next War, Not the Last One by Michael Novick  It has been said that generals are always preparing to fight the last war. In this case, it looks like the generals and spy-masters are way out in front fighting the next one, while it is we on the …