When Katie Halper asks anti-war organizer and Iraq War veteran to respond to people using the Taliban's treatment of women to argue against the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan, he points out that the media had nothing whatsoever to say about the women killed by U.S. airstrikes, military occupation, and the warlords governing Afghanistan.
Democracy Now! Eleven peace activists and one journalist on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, the "Madleen," were detained by Israeli soldiers as their ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians approached Gaza. The ship was intercepted by Israeli forces in the middle of the night in international waters. Its supplies were seized and communications jammed. The unarmed activists will likely be transported to Israeli detention or "immediately deported," says Ann Wright, a U.S. military veteran who has participated in four Freedom Flotilla journeys and now serves on the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She calls on citizens of countries around the world to push for the activists' release and an end to Israel's war on Gaza.
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