Posted by smeddum on June 13, 2009
June 13th: New tool will connect your phone to each key office and even let you leave a message after hours. Ask all the fence-sitting congress members to vote No on the war supplemental with this virtual phonebank.
June 12 super late night update: How funding wars “supports duh troops”: Fifteen Months After Bloodbath in Iraq, Young Veteran Takes His Life. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 12, 2009
Dennis Kucinich Once Again Speaks Out Against Iraq War
Cleveland Leader
10th June 2009
Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich today made the following statement against the war supplemental on the House floor:
“Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, had no intention or capability of attacking United States, had nothing to do with Al-Qaida’s role in 9/11, and each and every statement made by the previous administration in support of going to war turned out to be false. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 5, 2009
5th June, 2009
Number of US contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan is on the rise despite Washington claims that it would withdraw forces from both countries within years.
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Posted by smeddum on June 5, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on May 20, 2009
Obama inherits Cheney’s army of assassins – and promotes their commander
Justin Raimondo
20th May, 2009
As the story of Bush administration’s war crimes comes out in fits and starts, it appears that torture is only one aspect – and not the worst, by any means – of this horrific history. In an interview in mid-March, Seymour Hersh let slip the following:
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Posted by smeddum on May 14, 2009
U.S. Soldier in Iraq Kills 5 Comrades at Stress Clinic
By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
BAGHDAD, May 11 — An American soldier opened fire on comrades Monday afternoon inside a combat stress clinic at a large U.S. military base in Baghdad, killing five and wounding three in an attack that prompted officials to promise to try to ease the strain on troops deployed to war zones. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on May 9, 2009
Afghanistan: Heroin-ravaged State
by Prof. Peter Dale Scott
Global Research, May 8, 2009
Why one should think of Afghanistan, not as a “failed state,” but as a heroin-ravaged state
One of the most frustrating features of observing American foreign policy is to see the gap between the encapsulated thinking of the national security bureaucracy and the sensible unfettered observations of the experts outside. In the case of Afghanistan, outside commentators have called for terminating current specific American policies and tactics – many reminiscent of the US in Vietnam. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2009
Eric Margolis is one of the world’s leading experts on Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is particularly insightful in this interview with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio.
Click here to hear interview.
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Posted by seumasach on April 13, 2009
13th April, 2009
Fresh US air strikes have again killed at least six Afghan civilians, including women and children in the eastern province of Kunar. Seventeen others were also injured in the overnight attacks which hit civilian homes in Watapour district of the province, a Press TV correspondent reported Monday.
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Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2009
Unborn Baby Shot in the Womb Definitely Not a Militant
10th April, 2009
The Khost Province killings yesterday have sparked a growing level of outrage at the behavior of US forces across Afghanistan, and have led Afghan President Hamid Karzai to demand once again that foreign forces adhere to their previous agreement to coordinate planned raids with the national government, and base them on accurate information.
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Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2009
Pepe Escobar
4th April, 2009
The people of Strasbourg have voted in their apartment balconies for the French-German co-production of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 60th birthday this Saturday. Thousands of “No to NATO” banners, alongside “Peace” banners, sprung up all around town until forcibly removed by French police.
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