The Easter Sunday suicide attack on Gulshan-e-Iqbal amusement park in Lahore, Pakistan has claimed more than 70 lives.
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Mallika Rao writes at the Huffington Post: Three years ago today, a girl took a bullet in the head on the order of a man from the same tribe as her. Elsewhere, the story…
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. By Talat Farooq, University of Birmingham The shock waves from a brutal terror attack that claimed the lives of more…
Zack Beauchamp writes at Vox: On Friday morning [Oct. 10], 17 year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yousafzai’s prize is well-deserved: she’s been a prominent campaigner for girls’ education…
Thanks to a Facebook commenter on this post, the underreporting of the protests in Pakistan has been brought to my attention. While some of the mainstream media has covered these protests, their narrative…
Abby Martin reports on the 10th anniversary of the CIA’s first drone strikes in Pakistan, looking over Breaking the Set’s coverage of drone strikes since the beginning of show first aired. LIKE…
From Oct. of last year, Caitlin Dewey writing in the Washington Post: A Pakistani journalist attempting to shame Malala Yousafzai conspiracy theorists — of which, it turns out, there are quite a…
Abby goes over a new Amnesty International report that finds that 141 countries in the world practice torture methods, including everything from severe beatings to waterboarding, while the top ten recipients of…
A Pakistani court has cleared a nine month-old or charges that he planned a murder and threatened the police. Kids today! Via NPR: Weeks after he was fingerprinted and appeared in court…
In the future, America’s textbooks will debate his presidential performance, while around the world he is immortalized as a famed mascot for sexual stimulants. Raw Story reports: Despite unpopularity there for his…
A malicious psychic presence, mysterious gas leak, mass hysteria, or some combination thereof? The Express Tribune reports: Nearly 25 female workers of a Landhi garments factory fell unconscious in the aftermath of…
Abby Martin calls out the corporate media for its coverage of 16 year old Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai, highlighting her heroism promoting education against the Taliban, but omitting her important message to…
Drone wars to come? PolicyMic reports: In the lead up to Pakistan’s general election on May 11, former cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan has again vowed to shoot down American drones if elected. Given that…
On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to former US assistant secretary of state for public affairs, P.J. Crowley, about his resignation following remarks about whistle blower Bradley Manning’s treatment in military detention and his thoughts about drones and US foreign policy.
What do people in Pakistan know that the rest of the world doesn’t? Every Pakistani man, woman and child is a paranoid nutcase, according to the picture painted by a recent New…
The inimitable Matt Taibbi takes on the drones issue for Rolling Stone: Read an absolutely amazing article today. Entitled “Droning on about Drones,” it was published in the online version of Dawn, Pakistan’s…
Exactly why someone in Pakistan decided that the town where Osama bin Laden (supposedly) met his end at the hands of U.S. Navy Seals would be a good place for an amusement…
Don’t tell anyone you’re an atheist if you live in Afghanistan, Iran, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Sudan! Story via Reuters: Atheists and other religious skeptics suffer persecution or discrimination in…
Alternet supremo Don Hazen reports on activist filmmaker extraordinaire Robert Greenwald’s latest campaign, at Salon: Robert Greenwald, head of the progressive internet video and documentary film company, Brave New Films, recently traveled to Pakistan,…
Dance songs reflecting the new reality. The Guardian provides context:
In the long history of love songs the attention of a beautiful woman has been compared to many things – but perhaps only in Pakistan’s tribal belt would it be likened to the deadly missile strike of a remotely controlled US drone. [It’s] a sign of how the routine hunting down and killing of militants by unmanned CIA planes has leached into the popular imagination.
The repeated chorus: “My gaze is as fatal as a drone attack”. The hit for singer Sitara Younis follows her success last year with another love ballad, which warns a besotted man to keep his distance: “Don’t chase me, I’m an illusion, a suicide bomb.”
Maas Khan Wesal, a Pashtu music veteran who wrote the accompanying music, said the song had proved popular because it reflected the lives of Pashtu speakers on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Longtime disinformation collaborator Robert Greenwald has a new project in the works and he’s asking for your help:
When we started our Rethink Afghanistan work over three years ago, we were a very small minority who believed the war and escalation of troops were a profound misuse of lives and money. The investigative videos, actions, and a full length film created with your help changed that…
On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks about Obama the ‘Drone King’s’ kill list which one official has called a macabre “baseball card” set of “terrorists” and a discusses the dangers of Obama’s drone wars. Abby then interviews former CNN Investigative Reporter, Amber Lyon, about CNN’s corrupt media empire, calling into question a media establishment where censorship can be bought.
Read and think what it would be like to live in fear of drone strikes in your city. It could happen here. Jennifer Gibson describes the terror hovering over Pakistan in the…
Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern writes at MichaelMoore.com: Several friends of mine are among the 35 American activists assembling in Pakistan in recent days in an effort to seek ground truth on the…