Posted by smeddum on August 16, 2009
Radio, cell phones to help US in Afghanistan?
Sun, 16 Aug 2009
The US has turned to radio stations and cell phones in its alleged fight against militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan, after realizing that it is losing the war.
The US State Department says it is establishing a new unit for what it calls countering militant propaganda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 7, 2009
Antiwar.com
6/8/2009
Following July’s record death tolls, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll shows that US popular support for the war is also at an all-time low, with 54 percent of respondents opposed to the ongoing war and 41 percent in favor. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 6, 2009
Civilian death toll soaring in Afghanistan
By James Cogan
URUKNet
3 August 2009
A report issued late last month by the Human Rights Unit of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) sheds light on the rising number of innocent Afghan men, women and children who are being killed in order for the US and its allies to consolidate their neo-colonial occupation of the country. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 6, 2009
Obama turns Karzai ally into a liability
By: Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi
6/08/2009
Winnipegfreepress
KABUL, Afghanistan — The reports are not new. For years now, it has been widely reported that about 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war were stuffed into airless metal shipping containers and buried in the desert after they surrendered to troops under the command of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum in November 2001. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 3, 2009
Why Is a Leading Feminist Organization Lending Its Name to Support Escalation in Afghanistan?
July 8 2009
RAWA
Waging war does not lead to the liberation of women anywhere — even if you call soldiers “peacekeeping forces.”
By Sonali Kolhatkar and Mariam Rawi
Years ago, following the initial military success of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the temporary fall of the Taliban, the people of Afghanistan were promised that the occupying armies would rebuild the country and improve life for the Afghan people. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 31, 2009
This is primarily a war for NATO which they are trying to keep alive as a means to global domination. It should have been disbanded years ago- Disband NATO Now! Bring the troops home!
30 July 2009
I am writing to you as a serving soldier in the British army to express my views and concerns on the current conflict in Afghanistan.
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Posted by smeddum on July 28, 2009
Voters turn against war in Afghanistan
Majority thinks conflict is unwinnable and wants troops withdrawn, poll shows
Independent
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
By Nigel Morris and Kim Sengupta
A majority of the public believes that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable and British troops should be pulled out immediately, a poll for The Independent has found. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
Petras is one of the very few on the left to view Obama’s strategy objectively. He is right to stress that global conditions are no longer favourable for US intervention: we are witnessing, before our very eyes, the end of empire.
James Petras
9th July, 2009
The recent events in Honduras and Iran, which pit democratically elected regimes against pro-US military and civilian actors intent on overthrowing them can best be understood as part of a larger White House strategy designed to rollback the gains achieved by opposition government and movements during the Bush years.
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Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2009
6th July, 2009
We have had weeks of government and army propaganda selling the “good war” in Afghanistan as being for the benefit of the Afghan people and as necessary to Britain’s interests.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2009
James Cogan
4th July, 2009
The Obama administration has ordered the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2 MEB) into a potentially bloody offensive in the southern province of Helmand. The objective is the suppression of the ethnic Pashtun population, which is overwhelmingly hostile to the seven-and-a-half year US and NATO occupation of the country and rejects the legitimacy of the Afghan puppet government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
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Posted by smeddum on June 24, 2009
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