6th April, 2010
President Hamid Karzai has threatened to step down and join the Taliban if outside pressure for reform continues, Afghan lawmakers say.
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Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China
Karzai threatens to join the Taliban
Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2010
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Karzai steps up attack against US war policy
Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2010
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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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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US Policy Elites and Chechnya
Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2010
Mark Hackard
31st March, 2010
It is highly likely that the March 29th terrorist strikes in Moscow were carried out by Chechen female suicide bombers, also known as “black widows.” After six years, Chechen jihadist cells have pulled off another successful attack against innocent Russians only minutes from the Kremlin.
The official U.S. response to the bombings has been to condemn the violence and “stand with” Russia, though support in these matters rarely extends beyond statements for the press. Beyond public diplomacy, what policy line does Washington actually pursue in relation to the Caucasus?
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Russia’s Metro Bombings- Monsters from the American id?
Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2010
Justin Raimondo
31st March, 2010
Those behind the bombing in Moscow’s Metro system, which took 39 lives – and shook the building that houses Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (FSB) – must be “scraped from the bottom of the sewers” and exposed, said Vladimir Putin. But what if that particular sewer leads all the way back to Washington and London?
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WHO to launch study into Fallujah birth defects
Posted by seumasach on April 1, 2010
If the spirit of the notorious Dr Repacholi still haunts the ICRP at the WHO then not much hope can be held out for this investigation. In his view, depleted uranium “is basically safe’, just as are virtually all exposures to radiation, ionising or non-ionising. There can be little doubt as to the tragic effects of DU which is already being investigated by the Iraqi authorities: it’s time now to launch an investigation into the WHO itself.
1st April, 2010
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it will conduct an independent study into the high level of birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
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Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It
Posted by seumasach on March 26, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
24th March, 2010
There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.
Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it.
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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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Sheehan turning attention to Obama, camping out at Washington Monument
Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2010
Cindy Sheehan’s political instincts seem to lead her infallibly to the right strategy. Here she is doing three things which have to be done and which we certainly don’t see here in Britain. Firstly, she is challenging head on the sinister charlatan and darling of the left, Barack Obama.
Secondly, she sees the need to link the opposition to the wars to the re-examination of the events that made them possible, namely, those of 11th September, 2001.
Thirdly, she sees the need to link up with the emerging multipolar reality- in this case, the Bolivarista movement in South America.
12th March, 2010
Cindy Sheehan is about to start another anti-war camp. This one will be in Washington, and it could conceivably last for months. The problem?
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US-NATO “Strategic Concept”: Global Warfare
Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2010
“[O]ur first line of defence must be to complete the consolidation of Europe as a continent that is whole, free and at peace.”
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Rick Rizoff
15th March, 2010
The civilian chief of the world’s only, and history’s first self-proclaimed global, military bloc is having a busy month.
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