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By Cesar Chelala

More than one out of every five children are dead by the time they are five.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24201.htm



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Obama's Afghan Surge Will Rely Heavily On Private Contractors Mercenaries

As President Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan unfolds, the number of contractors will likely jump by between 16,000 and 56,000, adding up to a total of 120,000-160,000, according to an updated study from the Congressional Research Service.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/afghanistan_contractors_new_congressional_study.php



Congressman Grayson and Afghanistan Veterans Urge Congress Not to Fund Troop Surge

Congressman Grayson said, "The goals of expelling al-Qaeda and overthrowing the Taliban were accomplished years ago. The notion that an increase of 30,000 troops is necessary to ensure America's security is absurd.
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/15-9



Rep. Alan Grayson Reads Petition from 100,000 People

End the War Now



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Report Reveals Scope of Government Contracting

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "According to a new government report, more than 50 percent of the Department of Defense workforces are military contractors and the Obama administration's troop surge in Afghanistan is set to only increase these numbers."

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US-Diplomat kündigt: "Ich habe kein Verständnis mehr"

Obama stockt die US-Truppen in Afghanistan auf, um den Krieg schnell zu beenden. Doch der US-Diplomat Mathew Hoh hielt jedes weitere Engagement für sinnlos und quittierte deshalb den Dienst.- Lesen Sie seinen Abschiedsbrief in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 11.12.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/2134813_US-Diplomat-kuendigt-Ich-habe-kein-Verstaendnis-mehr.html


Luftangriffe in Afghanistan: Blankes Kriegsrecht

„Der Angriff auf die Tanklaster sollte Taliban töten. Wenn aber "zur Selbstverteidigung" jeder Gegner getötet werden darf, der gefährlich sein könnte, verabschiedet man sich aus dem Isaf-Mandat…“ Kommentar von Heribert Prantl in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 13.12.2009 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt2l3/politik/69/497375/text/


Vertrag: Bundeswehr und Kultusministerium BaWü

„Das Kultusministerium von Baden-Württemberg und die Bundeswehr haben haben am 4.12. einen speziellen Kooperationsvertrag abgeschlossen. Offiziere der Bundeswehr sollen nun nicht mehr nur Informationsveranstaltungen halten dürfen, sondern nun AKTIV in die Lehre eingebunden werden. Darüber hinaus sollen Lehrerinnen und Lehrern Seminare im Bereich Sicherheitspolitik, Krisenbewältigung und Aufstandsbekämpfung angeboten werden…“ Artikel von „Krieg dem Krieg überall!“ vom 07.12.2009 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2009/12/268260.shtml

Siehe dazu:

Jugendoffiziere raus aus Schulen!

Zur neuen Kooperationsvereinbarung zwischen dem Kultusministerium Baden-Württembergs und der Bundeswehr. IMI-Standpunkt von Jonna Schürkes vom 10.12.2009 http://www.imi-online.de/2009.php?id=2057


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Dezember 2009

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"Das schreit geradezu nach Aufklärung"

Bundesverwaltungsrichter Dieter Deiseroth über die Rechtmäßigkeit des Afghanistan-Krieges und der Frage, ob die Terroranschläge in den USA aus rechtstaatlicher Sicht ausreichend aufgeklärt wurden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31729/1.html

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16. Dezember 2009

DIE LINKE befürchtet Strategiewechsel zu offensivem Krieg

Zu den Forderungen des deutschen Nato-Generals Lather nach bis zu 1000 zusätzlichen deutschen Soldaten für ein "effizienteres" Vorgehen und des CDU-Verteidigungspolitikers Schockenhoff nach einer "Anpassung des Mandats an die Erfordernisse", erklärt Christine Buchholz, Mitglied des Geschäftsführenden Parteivorstands der Partei DIE LINKE:

Diese Forderungen laufen auf einen blutigeren Krieg hinaus. Mit den geheim veränderten Regeln für Soldaten und der Bombardierung von Kunduz hat die Bundeswehr ein Strategie-Wechsel hin zum offensiven Töten von Afghanen eingeleitet. Dies lässt die Vorbereitung eines offensiven Krieges befürchten, nach der das Ziel die "Eliminierung" so vieler Aufständischer wie möglich ist. Das erinnert an die Strategie des Bodycounts der USA in Vietnam. Leidtragende ist die afghanische Bevölkerung. Die Bundeswehr ließ Frauen, Kinder und Männer in Kunduz töten. Das ist ein Kriegsverbrechen. Die Aufstockung der NATO-Soldaten wird mehr Afghanen und Soldaten das Leben kosten. DIE LINKE lehnt den Krieg in Afghanistan ab. Die Bundeswehr muss sofort abziehen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/die-linke-befuerchtet-strategiewechsel-zu-offensivem-krieg/



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On Monday, the anonymous blogger Security Crank noticed something interesting: all the U.S. and NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan seemingly kill exactly 30 people every time. How can that be?

http://snipurl.com/tnlow


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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/11/09

This effort to create a kinder, gentler form of colonialism, to make a military occupation a true labor of love, is part and parcel of the loony faux-Maoist ‘COIN’ strategy championed by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), whose policy wonks have captured the civilian leadership of the Pentagon. Their efforts to construct a ’smart’ version of George W. Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ on the Af-Pak front are imbued with just the sort of pseudo-scientific claptrap that allows liberals to think they can similarly ‘experiment’ — as Gen. Petraeus puts it — on the American people as well...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/12/10/the-afghan-experiment/



Imperial Democrats line up for war

Campaign For Liberty
by John Walsh

In a scene replicated all over the country, a small, dispirited crowd protested on Boston Common following Obama’s West Point declaration of more war on the unfortunate people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama intends to out-Bush Bush on Af-Pak, which has finally thrown some cold water on his supporters. The large printed placards ordered up for the demo called for an end to the war on Af-Pak, but only three scraggily handmade signs mentioned Obama...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=426



One hot mess

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

12/10/09

This week offered a typical example of the disconnect that’s emerged between the United States and the rest of the globe. The eyes of the world are on the climate talks in Copenhagen, while the American political establishment instead watches Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry offer testimony on Afghanistan to Congress. The simple fact of the matter is that what happens — or doesn’t — in Copenhagen is much more likely to be remembered in history books than the details of America’s effort to stabilize Afghanistan. Either concrete progress will be made toward a global effort to forestall catastrophic climate change or else we risk slipping backward down the slope and undoing all the effort of recent years...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=one_hot_mess


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Is this what we're fighting for?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/748.html

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Tell the House Armed Services Committee to Read Eikenberry's Warning
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/04-1

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Georgetown Students Protest Gen. Petraeus During Speech

Student protestors gathered inside and outside Gaston to condemn Petraeus's strategy in the Middle East and the university's decision to invite him.

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Während in Deutschland allmählich Lügengebäude zusammenbrechen, macht sich in den USA niemand die Arbeit, einen Feldzug zu verleugnen. In den Tagen vor Obamas Ankündigung, noch mehr Soldaten zu schicken, machten sich jedoch Sozialwissenschaftler die Arbeit, einmal auszurechnen, was mit den bisher ausgegebenen 60 Milliarden pro Kriegsjahr an sozialen Programmen hätte finanziert werden können - darunter vieles, das sich tatsächlich als bloße Geldfrage definieren lässt: Etwa täglich 30 Tote durch Tuberkulose oder 50 Frauen, die durch Schwangerschaftsprobleme sterben gelassen werden. Mehr zur sozialen Entwicklung in Afghanistan in dem Beitrag "There Hasn't Been Two Seconds Of Intelligent Discussion About Living Standards In Afghanistan" von John Hanrahan, am 3. Dezember 2009 beim Niemann Watchdog publiziert:

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Aus: LabourNet, 11. Dezember 2009



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Afghan government says NATO raid killed six civilians

NATO officials on Tuesday disputed a report by the Afghan government that a NATO raid in eastern Afghanistan earlier in the day had killed six civilians,

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General: Attack may have killed Afghan civilians

The No. 2 commanding general in Afghanistan acknowledged Wednesday that a NATO-led attack the day before in eastern Afghanistan possibly resulted in civilian deaths.

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Mullen: 'US is losing the war in Afghanistan'

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen painted a disturbing picture on Tuesday, bluntly telling US troops at Ft. Campbell, Ky. - including some bound for Afghanistan - that "we are not winning, which means we are losing and as we are losing, the message traffic out there to insurgency recruits keeps getting better and better and more keep coming."

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Gates claims victory near in Afghanistan

Despite record-high violence and an increasing number of casualties, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the war in Afghanistan is moving in the right direction and towards success.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113295&sectionid=351020403



Afghanistan 'unable to pay for troops for 15 years'

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has warned that it will take 15 years before the country is able to pay for the cost of its own security forces.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8400806.stm



Afghans protest civilian killings by US forces

Hundreds of Afghans have taken to the streets of the capital Kabul to protest a recent NATO airstrike which killed a number of civilians in the war-ravaged country.

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Afghan demonstrators call for trial of "war criminals"

The protesters also called on the government to identify and sack all those officials involved in human right violation and war crimes over the past three decades.

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Canadian General Now Acknowledges Risk to Afghan Detainees

Canada's top soldier, said Wednesday that the country's military had been aware that prisoners it handed over to Afghan authorities risked being abused.

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Marines captain from 45 Commando admits Afghan assault

A Royal Marines officer has pleaded guilty to assaulting an Afghan national while serving in the country, according to a court martial spokesman.

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Negotiate to end war

The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

12/09/09

The U.S. government should negotiate a ceasefire and end to the war in Afghanistan. If such negotiations have occurred, they have not been publicized. It would take political courage to openly talk to the Taliban, but militarily there is little to lose by just talking. International negotiations got a bad reputation when the United Kingdom capitulated to the demands of Nazi Germany just prior to World War II. But negotiation does not imply surrender, nor does it condone what the enemy is doing. Negotiation means finding a compromise that provides each side with its minimum desires...

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