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
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 16, 2009
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Posted by smeddum on August 15, 2009
US: Chavez warning ‘anti-Yankee rhetoric’
Fri, 14 Aug 2009
A top US military official defends a deal to use seven Colombia bases.
Amid regional concern about US bases in Colombia, a top US military official rejects Venezuelan president’s warnings over the mission as ‘typical anti-Yankee rhetoric.’ Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 9, 2009
By Stephen Gowans
6 Aug 2009
Peter Ackerman, an immensely wealthy investor and board member of the premier U.S. foreign policy think-tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, [2] and Robert Helvey, a 30 year veteran of the U.S. Army [3] who served two tours of duty in Vietnam [4], are the principal proponents of a nonviolent alternative to military intervention in the pursuit of U.S. foreign policy goals. 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
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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 smeddum on August 3, 2009
US troops now a ‘coalition of one’ in Iraq
By CHELSEA J. CARTER (AP) –
2/8/08
BAGHDAD — The war in Iraq was truly an American-only effort Saturday after Britain and Australia, the last of its international partners, pulled out.
Little attention was paid in Iraq to what effectively ended the so-called coalition of the willing, with the U.S. — as the leader of Multi-National Force, Iraq — letting the withdrawals pass without any public demonstration.
The quiet end of the coalition was a departure from its creation, which saw then-U.S. President George W. Bush court countries for support before and after the March 2003 invasion. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 2, 2009
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In These New Times 