Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'War'
Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt convicted of genocide in Guatemala
by Sonia Perez Diaz, The Independent, UK - Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigenous communities their...
Making Connections: From Shock And Awe To Wall Street
by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Eurasia Review, Spain - When we occupied Freedom Plaza in October, 2011, we made the connection between US Empire and the corporate control of our political process, between unlimited military spending and cuts to...
Europe Goes to War Blindfolded
by Barbara Spinelli, La Repubblica, Italy - Because it lacks a common political government, the European Union is not leading the war but it is, nonetheless, now part of its daily routine. If we add the never-ending fight against terrorism...
Syria's War Leaves Its Scars on the Children
by Deborah Amos, NPR, USA - The war in Syria is taking a huge toll on the children. An international team of researchers that interviewed Syrian kids in a refugee camp in Turkey found that 3 out of 4 have...
Russia Should Cooperate If It Wants to Protect Post-Assad Interests in Syria
by Lale Kemal, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Russia now faces the risk of losing not only it's business interests in this country but also its strategic weight in the Middle East region as a whole if it continues to support...
Refugees Forced to Return to War-Torn Syria
by Nisreen El Shamayleh, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Syrian refugees cite terrible living conditions in camps in neighbouring Jordan....
Rape Is Shredding Syria’s Social Fabric
by Lauren Wolfe, CNN, USA - The unending "dishonor" and manipulation of Syrians through sexualized violence is committed by all sides, although the majority of our reports indicate government perpetrators. It is creating an entire nation of traumatized people: not...
How One (Female) CIA Operative Would Fix Our Wars
by Michele Lent Hirsch, Women Under Siege, USA - If our goal is to create stable, inclusive sovereignty for all countries—particularly those looking to regain their footing in the immediate aftermath of a conflict—it’s in our national interest to protect...
Israel, Gaza and beyond
by Beril Dedeoglu, Today's Zaman, Turkey - In order to better understand Israel’s foreign policy, one has to live in Israel or at least be very well informed about this country’s domestic political balance....
Notes from Gaza
by Sarah Mousa, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The current assault on Gaza is reminiscent of what happened nearly four years ago, but Gazans continue on....
Death by Drones
by Janie Rezner, WINGS, Canada - Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, tells Women's Voices host Janie Rezner about her recent trip to Pakistan to oppose drone strikes, what she learned...
Serbia Sinks into Depression
by Vesna Peric Zimonjic, IPS, Italy - “Roughly a third of the population has experienced mental disorder due to the current economic crisis that has taken its toll in the form of unemployment and growing poverty,” Nadja Maric Bojovic, head...
Marines' Faces Before, During, and After Serving in Afghanistan
by Heather Murphy, Slate, USA - How do life-changing experiences concretely impact the way we look? Does tragedy truly show up in our eyes and brow? These are questions that fascinate Claire Felicie, who photographed the faces of 20 Dutch...
2013: First Year for Korean Peace
by Christine Hong, Asia Times, Hong Kong - As the longest war in US history - predating America's ongoing quagmire in Afghanistan by over half a century - the Korean War points to permanent conflict as the discomfiting, long-run truth...
Syrian Strife Sours Students' Dreams
by Basma Atassi, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Sixteen-year-old Yehya from the Syrian city of Homs had a perfect academic record and thought he was only two years away from realising his dream of joining a much-coveted medical course in Damascus....
Turkey Gets Tough on Syria
by Amanda Paul, Today's Zaman,Turkey - The urgency of the situation has become greater not simply because of the deteriorating situation inside the country, but because violence is increasingly spreading beyond Syria’s borders into Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere....
Nations Run out of Ideas on Syria as FSA Runs out of Ammunition
by Lale Kemal, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Neither Turkish-US bilateral cooperation nor multilateral meetings taking place among various countries on ending the bloodshed in Syria, where the Assad regime's brutal crackdown continues unabated against the opposition, have produced any recipe...
Primary Defenses of the Syrian-Syrian Division
by Sawsan Zakzak, Syria Today, Syria - Linguistic brinksmanship, aggravated by violence, is serving to drive the opposing sides further apart....
Somalia: Life Returns in Aftermath of al-Shabab
by Nastasya Tay, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - For now, Mogadishu residents wait and hope, surviving in a city that offers a constant reminder of the extent to which things can go wrong....
The Threat of a Military Conflict with Iran Is Real
by Ekaterina Zabrovskaya, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Russia - A war against Iran is inevitable and it is likely to break out sometime in the first half of 2013, says Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Institute of the Middle East....
Most Children in Syria Are Hostages of Violence
by Serene Assir, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - Turning rockets into goal posts, abandoned tanks into playthings, and war into a game, children in Syria are hostages to a conflict that has forced them to try to normalize death, loss...
UK and Afghan Endgame
by Huma Yusuf, Dawn, Pakistan - As the deadline for Isaf troop withdrawal approaches, Britain is increasingly aware that it has much more at stake in a peaceful resolution to the Afghan conflict than the United States, and that London’s...
Rape, Assault Are Weapons of War in Syria
by Lauren French, AlertNet, UK - Government forces in Syria are targeting women for rape and assault as the conflict between President Bashar al-Assad and anti-government forces continues to escalate, according to a report released by a human rights group...
'Being a Woman War Reporter Is an Advantage'
by Louise Gray, Telegraph, UK - Di Giovanni says that motherhood is what makes female war correspondents different. She is more likely to go into war zones after the world’s press has left to find the real story....
The Sound of Southern Sudan
by Hannah McNeish, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - "You see -- if there is oil here, Bashir comes, if there is oil there, he goes that way. You see? This will go on and on," until Khartoum sees the...
Before the Afghan Drawdown
by Razeshta Sethna, Dawn, Pakistan - In 2014, the US will have fought a 13-year-war in Afghanistan. Though there is fear that once the foreign forces exit, the country will fall into civil war with Al Qaeda elements in Pakistan...
Women of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Twenty Years Later
by Violeta Krasnic, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - “Women were not the makers of the war and were not at the negotiating table when the conflict stopped. But they were the first ones to cross imaginary and imposed borders...
Syrian Strife Hits Lebanese Villages
by Mona Alami, IPS, Italy - A few kilometres separate the two Lebanese villages of Ersal and Qaa from the Syrian border, both of which have been unwillingly drawn into the violence of the Syrian uprising. Unrest has been brewing...
Our Lost and Found Memories of Vimy Ridge
by Jane Urquhart, Globe and Mail, Canada - Vimy, as far as I could remember, had received short shrift during my history teacher’s brief foray into the role of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War....
A Sarajevo Wartime Cookbook, with Recipes Bitter and Sweet
by Daisy Sindelar, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - The book is Alic’s wartime cookbook, a collection of improvised recipes passed from neighbor to neighbor as Sarajevans searched for ways to scratch together a meal as food supplies dwindled dangerously...
The Media’s True Lies
by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, USA - The media drumbeat against Iran is a disgrace, but it tells us that the attack can’t be too far away. Iran is not America’s worst enemy. Our worst enemies are right here,...
Libya and the NTC: 12,000 US Troops to Libya
by Cynthia McKinney, Pambazuka News, Kenya - The ‘Arab Spring’ has sprung and the indelible fingerprints of malignant foreign financed operations must be erased if the people are to have a chance to truly govern themselves. Unfortunately, these foreign-inspired organizations...
Somali Refugees Still Fleeing Famine
by Catherine Soi, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Six months since famine was declared in Somalia, the Puntland region is struggling to cope with an influx of refugees....
Pressure Israel, not Iran
by Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn, USA - The same voices who brought us the illegal, tragic, and ill-advised war with Iraq will continue to try to dominate the national conversation with battle cries against Iran....
Tareq Aziz: Life Hanging In The Balance
by Felicity Arbuthnot, Countercurrents, India - As the US occupiers leave Iraq the fate of former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Tareq Aziz's fate hangs in the balance....
Obama’s Spin on Iraq War Looks Pathetic
by Linda Heard, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - In the end, we got nothing. No bases, no oil, no consolidation of influence and no respect. All we really leave behind in Iraq is an embassy the size of a small...
War in WANA: A Threat to Humanity
by Chandra Muzaffar, Counter Currents, India - Any conflict in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) is a threat to world peace. For WANA is of tremendous strategic, economic, political and religious significance to the whole of humanity....
'Bugsplat': The Ugly US Drone War in Pakistan
by Jennifer Robinson, Al Jazeera, Qatar - It's time for the US to re-examine the consequences of its dehumanising, deadly attacks in Pakistan....
The Silence that Kills: Time to Speak Up about what Veterans Need
by Paula J. Caplan, When Johnny and Jane Came Marching Home, USA - Two million veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq now live among us, some of a total of 23 million from all United States wars. The...
Women in War, Women in Peace
by Diane Wueger, The Atlantic, USA - As wars become less about states and more about societies, women can play a greater role in shaping or ending conflicts. So why do we still think of war as inherently male?...
The Rebels' Ongoing Search for Gadhafi's Mercenaries
by Barbara Hardinghaus, Der Spiegel, Germany - Libya's dictator may be dead, but some of the rebels who deposed him are still hunting down Gadhafi's mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa. The fighting has driven thousands of people out of the town...
Remembering the Paris Massacre 50 Years On
by Rachel Holman, France 24, France - Anti-discrimination organisations and advocacy groups are gathering for a massive rally in the heart of Paris Monday to remember the victims of a deadly police crackdown against Algerian protesters in Paris fifty years...
Refugees of Africa's World War Still Fear Returning Home
by Robyn Leslie, IPS, Italy - The DRC was the scene of what has been called Africa's World War. Neighbouring countries, rebel groups and government forces fought ferociously in a conflict that saw the death of approximately five million people...
Giving Birth on the Frontline
by Sue Turton, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The impact of the drawn out conflict on ordinary people in Sirte was brought into sharp focus for us last night. We had swung by the field hospital on the way back from...
Witnessing The Transition to Fear in Tripoli
by Lizzie Phelan, Pambazuka News, Kenya - Amidst all the media furore about the fall of Tripoli from the grasp of the Libyan government, it's not easy to get a clear picture of what things look like under the new...
Somalia Was a Sideshow in the War on Terror – and Is Paying a Colossal Price
by Madeleine Bunting, Guardian, UK - Famine is the result of conflict as well as natural disasters. The plight of dying multitudes here is also bound up with 9/11....
‘Free Tripoli’, Just Don't Mention the Corpses
by Lizzie Phelan, Pambazuka, Kenya - The war on Libya has not only been a war that has vindicated NATO’s (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) claim to the most powerful military force on earth, capable of imposing its will through sheer...
Beyond Belief
by Beth Murphy, Link TV, USA - Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston until tragedy strikes. Rather than turning inwards, grief compels these women to focus on the country...
‘Top Secret America’
by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, Washington Post, USA - The CIA’s armed drones and paramilitary forces have killed dozens of al-Qaeda leaders and thousands of its foot soldiers. But there is another mysterious organization that has killed even...
True Cost of Afghan, Iraq Wars
by Nancy A. Youssef, Countercurrents, India - When congressional cost-cutters meet later this year to decide on trimming the federal budget, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could represent juicy targets. But how much do the wars actually cost the...
UGANDA: Post War Reconstruction Ignores Victims of Sexual Violence
by Rosebell Kagumire, IPS, Italy - Ester Abeja has experienced both physical and emotional atrocities. She was captured by Uganda's feared rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and was forced to join them. But not before the soldiers made...
Tunisia: Migrants Flee to New Traps
by Simba Russeau, IPS, Italy - As African Union and NATO leaders push for a political solution to the Libyan crisis, many of the thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on the Libyan- Tunisian border say their plight continues to...
War without Humans
by Barbara Ehrenreich, Tom Dispatch, USA - The effects of war on the U.S. and its allies may end up being almost as tragic. Instead of punishing the terrorists who had attacked the U.S., the war seems to have succeeded...
In Pictures: Women of Gaza
by Tanya Habjouqa, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Despite the devastation Palestinians of the Gaza Strip have faced due to the ongoing Israeli siege and occupation, an elegant community spirit prevails. Life continues, as do traditions and self-respect - resistance to...
Thank-You For Not “Serving”
by Katherine M. Acosta, Counter Currents, India - Before the parades begin, the flag-waving commences, and the fireworks explode this 4th of July, I want to recognize a large contingent of patriots who help to protect us from terrorism and...
This July Fourth, Listen to a Veteran
by Paula J. Caplan, Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA - Americans are woefully unschooled about war’s lingering effects. Fewer than 1 percent served in the military. Veterans talk little to non-soldiers about war, and few civilians volunteer to listen. Consequently, few...
Withdrawal Symptoms: Afghans Anxious Over Obama’s Out of Afghanistan Plan
by Leela Jacinto, France 24, France - “We are all afraid that history will repeat itself,” said Imamudin, referring to the brutal civil war following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. “I’m very worried about what’s going to happen. People...
Truth dispatch: Updates from Libya
by Cynthia McKinney, Pambazuka News, Kenya - On the ground in Tripoli and western Libya, Cynthia McKinney reports that the current NATO-led war looks nothing like the mainstream media would have us believe: ‘The situation on the ground in Tripoli...
Libyan Kids Maimed by War Remnants
by Rebecca Fordham, Al Jazeera, Qatar - UNICEF workshops in Libya help to educate about the dangers of "explosive remnants of war" that remain deadly....
Every Civilian Listen to a Vet's Story: Marking Memorial Day
by Dr. Paula J. Caplan, Psychology Today, USA - No matter what your politics in general, and no matter how you feel about war in general or about particular wars, it's the American government that sends a small percentage of...
Voices from a Shattered Land
by Zoe Graham, CMFD, South Africa - The continuing effects of landmines in Mozambique told through the stories of four landmine victims: Celso, a 10 year old boy who stepped on a land mine two years ago; Augusto, a 72...
Burma: Conflict Worsening Karen Food Crisis
by Naw Noreen, Democratic Voice of Burma, Burma - Nearly 9000 people are facing severe food shortages in northern Karen state as operations by the Burmese army combine with abnormal weather to weaken grain supplies....
Cluster Bomb Loopholes
by Adrienne Francis, ABC, Australia - Australia is under pressure to toughen its stance on the use of cluster bombs. Despite supporting a ban on them, a loophole in the legislation allows Australian soldiers to fight alongside nations which still...
Malalai Joya: A Dirty Game in Afghanistan
by Laura Flanders, Grit TV, USA - "One of the main excuses of the US occupation is now gone. The struggle for independence, democracy, and freedom should get easier, but it won't. Not without an end to occupation."...
The Savage Toll from Burma's Dirty War
by Liane Wimhurst, The Independent, UK - The regime is the last in the world still planting mines and the rebels improvise their own devices....
Organised But Overwhelmed in Misurata
by Ruth Sherlock, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Rebels in the Libyan city have set up a council, foodstalls and road blocks, but the number of casualties is rising....
Attacks Draw New Parallels between Libya and Somalia
by Christine Mungai, East African, Kenya - “Are there no human beings in Somalia similar to the ones in Benghazi? Or is it because Somalia does not have oil that is not fully controlled by western companies on account of...
Libya Intervention Threatens the Arab Spring
by Phyllis Bennis, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Despite its official UN-granted legality, the credibility of Western military action in Libya is rapidly dwindling....
Stop Bombing Libya
by Marjorie Cohn, War Is a Crime, USA - Libya has not attacked another country. The United States, France and Britain are not acting in self-defense. Humanitarian concerns do not constitute self-defense....
A Look back at 8 Years of War in Iraq
by Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Eight years after the US entered Iraq to topple Saddam and liberate the people, conditions are worse than ever....
The Women of Benghazi
By Hoda Abdel Hamid, AlJazeera, Libya - With their husbands, sons and brothers at the frontlines, the women of Benghazi are busy supporting them with meals and supplies, preparing thousands of sandwiches and warm meals daily....
Why Education Matters for Global Security
by Irina Bokova, NEXT, Nigeria - Contrary to popular belief, classrooms, kids and education systems are not merely “collateral damage” in the case of conflicts. They are more and more deliberately considered as legitimate targets....
Poems of War, Peace, Women, Power
by Suheir Hammad, TED, USA - "Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded."...
Why Peace Is the Business of Men (But Shouldn’t Be)
by Ann Jones, Tom Dispatch, USA - As I learned firsthand as an aid worker in one so-called post-conflict country after another, when the men in power stop shooting at each other, they often escalate the war against civilians --...
Soldiers of Fortune
by Christine Mungai, East African, Kenya - The balkanisation of Somalia is gathering pace with the establishment of Somaliland, Puntland, and soon Jubaland as peaceful, semi-automous enclaves that now seek international recognition as independent states....
In Congo, Helping the Environment While Healing a War-Scarred Land
by Carol Mann, Khaleej Times, Pakistan - In the city once known as Stanleyville, the theater of some of the bloodiest African wars in recent times, educators are hoping that a new university initiative will help heal the country as...
Sudan's Oil Transforms from Curse into Blessing
by Opheera McDoom, Reuters, UK - Oil inflamed Sudan's civil war for decades but could now help seal the peace as the south becomes independent and needs the north to refine its crude....
Why I'll Stand with Veterans for Peace on December 16
by Frida Berrigan, Common Dreams, USA - I am going to Washington to stand with Veterans for Peace (VFP), to offer nonviolence training and support in the memory of my father -- who like the men and women of VFP...
A Flood of Drone Strikes
by Fatima Bhutto, Tom Dispatch, USA - What the Wikileaks revelations tell us about how Washington runs Pakistan....
Liberia Slowly Recovers from Decade of Rampant Gender Violence
by Tecee Boley, Pambazuka, Kenya - ‘Gender-based violence is still on the rampage. If you walk in the streets you see it vividly. Even in the home it is there... The reasons for which some of those things happen are...
A Lot of Blood for Little Oil
by Cordula Meyer, Spiegel, Germany - Contrary to what many people believe, the Iraq war provided few advantages for the US oil industry. The diplomatic cables show that, in most cases, it was competitors to the Americans who often did...
The Suffering of Iraq's Christians
by Hadani Ditmars, Globe and Mail, Canada - Recent attacks against Christians are a sad testament to Iraq’s shift from secular to sectarian, one that has cost the lives of thousands....
Oskar Schindler's Krakow Factory Becomes a Museum
by Justyna Bronska, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Steven Spielberg made Oskar Schindler's name immortal as the man who saved over a thousand Jewish lives in World War II. In Krakow, a museum and memorial recently opened in Schindler's former factory....
Drones and Hot Pursuit
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - Mexico is not permitted to fly drones into US territory, searching for intelligence on the drug trade or to thwart arms deals that cause deaths of their citizens. Similarly, Pakistan has to look the...
Life of Uncertainty for Families of the Missing
by Aida Alić, Balkan Investigative Report Network, Bosnia & Herzegovina - For 18 years, Kozljak has been patiently waiting for the day when they she will find out what happened to her husband Ramiz....
Business as Usual in Iraq
by Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn, USA - Last week, President Obama ceremoniously announced that U.S. combat operations had ended in Iraq. But while he has escalated the killing in Afghanistan, it’s business as usual in Iraq....
Iraq: The Forgotten 'Nakba'
by Lamis Andoni, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Why has the plight of Iraq failed to capture the imagination and interest of the Arab world?...
Sept. 11: A Day Without War
by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance....
What Kind of Feminism Does War Provoke?
by Cynthia Cockburn, 50.50 inclusive democracy, UK - The to-ing and fro-ing about ‘women’s peaceful natures’ is no more than an excitable bubble of argument out of touch with facts on the ground. Antiwar feminism is a pretty holistic feminism...
The Face We Can’t Ignore: Women in Afghanistan
by Rafia Zakaria, Ms. Magazine, USA - What to do about the war in Afghanistan is posed as a question of military strategy, of defense expenditures, of logistical technicalities; of political climate, secret safe havens and effective counter- insurgency… but...
Could Wikileaks Offer a Way out of War?
by Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, USA - Any homeland security provided by the war is significantly undermined by the anger and resentment -- and armed resistance -- of our Central and South Asian hosts....
We Fight for the Oil We Need to Fight for the Oil
by Emily Badger, Miller-McCune, USA - Merely protecting America's fossil fuel lifeline adds a heap to the greenhouse gases that petroleum ultimately contributes....
John McCain on Iraq: 'We Already Won That One'
by Marjorie Cohn, Common Dreams, USA - Bush’s war of choice in Iraq has caused 4,413 American deaths. Iraq Body Count estimates that between 97,110 and 105,956 Iraqi civilians have been killed. Untold numbers have been seriously wounded. By September,...
Somalia's Saviors Are Making Everything Worse
by Letta Tayler, Foreign Policy, USA - The U.S. and the U.N. are doing everything but keeping the peace in Mogadishu....
The US Must Not Resume Training Indonesia’s Killers
by Kristin Sundell, Jakarta Globe, Indonesia - There is something unnerving about hearing orders for your execution. Even more unnerving is the news that amid reports of continuing killings and abuses, President Barack Obama wants to resume US training...
Counterinsurgency in Kandahar: What Happened to the Fence?
by Martine van Bijlert, Afghanistan Analysts Network, Germany - The conversations in Kandahar about what is going on and where things are heading are so different from the discussions among internationals that it is hard to believe they are talking...
Peace with Dignity in Yemen: Can the Cycle of War be Broken?
by Jane Novak, Examiner, USA - Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded....
Tax Day and America’s Wars
by Jo Comerford, Tom Dispatch, USA - By September 30, 2010, the Binghamton's “war tax” will reach $138.6 million -- or even more if, as expected, Congress passes an Obama administration request for supplemental funds to cover the president’s “surge”...
Democracy under Occupation
by Mona Anis, Al-Ahram, Egypt - Given the near-total destruction of Iraq and the continuing US military casualties seven years after Rumsfeld promised "wonderful things" in the country, one legitimate question regarding this illegitimate war and its exorbitant human and...
Refugee Processing Freeze Breaches International Law
by Jane McAdam and Kerry Murphy, The Australian, Australia - Mental health experts have extensively documented the long-lasting effects of indefinite detention and temporary protection visas. Suspending processing is a variation on this theme....
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