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UN: 1,500 Afghan civilians dead in 8 months
The UN said in a new report that NATO air strikes were to blame for about a quarter of civilian deaths across the war-ravaged country over the past months. http://www.presst v.ir/detail.aspx?id=107213 &sectionid=351020403   M cChrystal:... ...
The Vietnamization of Afghanistan
The American Prospect by Tim Fernholz 09/23/09 The Nixon administration, elected on a promise to end the Vietnam War via ‘peace with honor,’ described its strategy as ‘Vietnamization’:... ...
Afghanistan: the West has defeated itself
McChrystal’s conundrum AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo 09/23/09 McChry stal himself fails to grasp the essential fact about the country he is invading and occupying, which is that Afghans —... ...
Death Squads, Disappearances and Torture in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken As the Obama administration prepares a major escalation of the so-called AfPak war, reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley, near Afghanistan's eastern border, provide a gruesome indication... ...
Obama is leading the US into a hellish quagmire
AlterNet by Mark Ames 09/03/09 America now has more military personnel in Afghanistan than the Red Army had at the peak of the Soviet invasion and occupation of that country. According to a Congressional... ...
Obama’s war speech: An unconvincing flop
AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo 12/02/09 After 92 days of waiting for the Word from on high, the nation received its marching orders from our commander-in-chief — and it was a flop of major proportions.... ...
U.S. Military Working to 'Kill or Capture' 50 Taliban Drug Lords
ABC News 08/10/09 In a dramatic change of policy ordered by the Obama administration, the U.S. military has been given approval to ‘kill or capture’ 50 Taliban-connected drug lords whose names are on... ...
“Culturally sensitive” imperialism
AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo 08/03/09 In Britain, they’re getting antsy about Obama’s war — the ‘Af-Pak war, that is. Without the poodle Tony Blair to cover for us, Britain’s ruling Labor Party — decisively... ...
Iraqis restrict US operations in Baghdad
San Antonio Express-News 07/20/09 Th e Iraqi military has turned down requests from American forces to move unescorted through Baghdad and conduct a raid since the transition of responsibility for urban... ...
Death Squads and US Democracy
By Bill Van Auken The revelation that the CIA initiated a covert program, apparently involving assassinations, and kept it secret from the US Congress on the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney marks... ...