5th April, 2010
Afghan President Hamid karzai says there will be no military operation in the southern province of Kandahar unless the Afghan people support it.
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Karzai steps up attack against US war policy
Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2010
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German Easter rallies decry Afghanistan killings
Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2010
3rd April, 2010
Thousands of peace activists have taken to the streets across Germany to demand an immediate end to the country’s unpopular presence in Afghanistan.
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Night raids belie McChrystal’s new image
Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2010
Gareth Porter
2nd April, 2010
General Stanley McChrystal has recently acquired the image of a master strategist of the population-sensitive counterinsurgency, reducing civilian casualties from air strikes and insisting that troops avoid firing when civilians might be hit during the recent offensive in Helmand Province. One recent press story even referred to a “McChrystal Doctrine” that focuses on “winning over civilians rather than killing insurgents”.
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NATO won’t destroy Afghan poppy fields
Posted by seumasach on March 25, 2010
Of course, the NATO response would make some sense if the opium business had been there when they went in, but it has been created almost entirely under their watch after the Taliban had eradicated it.
25th March, 2010
NATO has rejected an appeal made by Russia for eradication of opium fields in Afghanistan, arguing that the sole source of income in the region cannot be removed.
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A titanic power struggle in Kabul
Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2010
As befits the oligarchical mindset, US/UK seek to weaken central power, and therefore sovereignty, in Afghanistan thereby maintaining it as a base for operations to destabilise Russia and China; “the great game for the containment of Russia, China and Iran is about to commence in earnest”.
M K Bhadrakumar
13th March, 2010
The flurry of diplomatic activity in Kabul during the past week heralded the opening shots of a titanic power struggle, the outcome of which will largely determine the contours of an Afghan settlement.
In what is shaping up as a multi-layered power struggle, the principal protagonists are the United States and Britain, Pakistan, Iran and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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NATO waging undeclared war on Russia: Moscow
Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2010
12th March, 2010
See also:
America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan
Moscow says the United States and NATO’s inaction in fighting drug trafficking in Afghanistan, translates into an “undeclared war” against Russia.
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Marjah, the city that never was
Posted by seumasach on March 9, 2010
Gareth Porter
10th March, 2010
WASHINGTON – For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a “city of 80,000 people” as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built up in February that Marjah was a major strategic objective, more important than other district centers in Helmand.
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Natural law brings AfPak crashing
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2010
“Second, unlike in the 1990s, the US’s influence is much diminished today, but its diplomats work as if they operate in a unipolar world. The plain truth is that regional powers like India, Iran or even Pakistan are far from convinced about the US’s AfPak policy. And they can be expected to do their utmost to safeguard their interests, no matter what the US diplomats prescribe as good enough.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
6th March, 2010
Be it a baseball struck in a neighborhood sandlot game or in high-wire diplomacy, an elementary principle of physics holds good – what goes up must come down. In a way, the sheer dynamics of the nosedive of the United States’ AfPak diplomacy in the four weeks since the London conference on Afghanistan on January 28 can be attributed to gravitational pulls.
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Afghan Resistance against US Invaders- US surge goes full steam ahead in Marjah
Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2010
Eric Walberg
25th February, 2010
Apart for Abu Ghraib, Fallujah is perhaps the Iraq war’s defining moment. The hatred and resentment of the occupied people found a catalyst in the four Blackwater mercenaries, who were killed and strung up, and no doubt deserved their fate, certainly as symbols of a cynical, illegal invasion. The US soldiers — who are just as mercenary, being a professional army invading a country sans provocation — came and “destroyed the village to save it.”
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NATO Changes Story: House Full of Afghan Civilians Deliberately Hit Three More Civilians Killed in Offensive Today
Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2010
Jason Ditz
16th February, 2010
Usually when militaries change their official story about killing civilians it is designed to explain away innocent deaths as an accident. Today, however, NATO took the exact opposite approach with Sunday’s Marjah killings, revising their story to insist the killings were not an equipment error, but were part of a deliberate US targeting of a house full of civilians.
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US to Launch Fallujah-style Attack in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2010
Bill Van Auken
12th February, 2010
As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war.
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