This page is not intended to be comprehensive - that is impossible, with the plethora of news sources now available to the Internet-using public. Its intent is to present an alternative story of the war different from the national news sources, like the AP and the New York Times and even from local news sources, like our own Clarion-Ledger.
What you will get from the usual sources is a version of events edited to reflect what the power elite wants you to believe about the war.
There are other views of the war; some quite at varience with the official version. Read and ponder.
Go directly to media links.1/9/2002
The Associated Press reported yesterday that Afghan villagers in Bonavash are starving while attempting to survive by eating grass. The following statement, released today (Jan. 9) by the Institute for Public Accuracy, is from James Jennings, president of the humanitarian aid organization Conscience International. Jennings will return to Afghanistan on Jan. 16 for the group's third mission since May, bringing assistance with food, blankets and health care. Read the message from Jennings
This message from Osama Bin Laden was broadcast by Al-Jazeera on November 3, 2001. The date and location of the statement are unknown. The JP, as readers should know, is not in the least bit sympathetic to Bin Laden or his goals. Realism dictates, however, that we acknowledge these words, intended for a Muslim audience, as a powerful expression of partially justified Muslim frustration with the treatment by the West of the peoples of the Middle East. Bin Laden regards this conflict as a religious war and his statement frames the facts as an apocalyptic jihad between the forces of Allah and the secular religions of the West, which to him are Christianity, Judaism and by inference, our western political and economic system which arose from those religions. The statement has undoubtedly reached a receptive audience. We take it lightly at our peril. [--Ed.] Read the message.
Transcript of a Televised presentation by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, on the present international situation, the economic and world crisis and its impact on Cuba. Havana, November 2, 2001. From The Emperor's New Clothes. The JP is not a fan of Fidel Castro, but he is clearly nobody's fool.
Nowar Collective: Crisis Resource Center
Omaid Weekley. Afgan publication based in Alexandria, Virginia.
The Green Party of the United States. Justice without vengence.
tehelka.com. Indian viewpoint.
Dawn. Pakistanini newspaper.
frontierpost.com.pk/. Another Pakistani newspaper based in Peshawar.
Al-Ahram Weekley Online. Egyptian newspaper, widely regarded as the "official" newspaper. This is the English version.
Middle East Times Independent Egyptian newspaper.
The Times of Central Asia on the Web, from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Khaleej Times English language daily newspaper published from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
tehrantimes.com. Iranian newspaper web site.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afganistan. RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan.