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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

03/10/10

Marjah, by all accounts appearing in the US media, is supposed to have been a city, or at least a major town. Described as containing some 80,000 inhabitants — and a bustling center of insurgent activity, a Taliban stronghold that had to be taken — Marjah was depicted as a rather large target, and our glorious ‘victory’ was therefore portrayed as a major triumph. The only problem with this narrative is that it bears no relation to reality. … this mighty offensive was launched, not against the Taliban, or al-Qaeda, but against the natural skepticism of the American people...

http://tinyurl.com/yghxgyg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US Forces Hold Afghans Back to 'Prove' Town Safe for Gates Visit

By Ron Brynaert

The picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a historic turning point in the conflict.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24954.htm



More Afghan Civilians Killed By US, NATO Forces Than Insurgents During Operation Moshtarak

According to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, U.S. and Allied forces have killed and injured more civilians than have the insurgents during Operation Moshtarak. Incredibly, the Pentagon continues to insist that this operation "protects the people."

http://rethinkafghanistan.com/hp/us-allies-responsible-for-most-marjah-civilian-casualties/



Patrick Kennedy: Media Doing "Despicable" Job Covering Afghanistan

"There's two press people in this gallery," Kennedy yelled during a debate over an anti-war resolution. "We're talking about Eric Massa 24-7 on the TV, we're talking about war and peace, $3 billion, 1,000 lives and no press? No press."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000251-503544.html


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/09-4

Afghanistan Withdrawal Debate in Congress
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/09-12



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Freiheit ist kein Ziel mehr

Deutsche Politiker wollen nicht mehr für Menschenrechte, sondern nur noch für westliche Interessen kämpfen lassen. Eine Bilanz von Christian Semler in der taz vom 04.03.2010 http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/digitaz/artikel/?ressort=me&dig=2010%2F03%2F04%2Fa0133&cHash=e318ba1c21


Afghanistan im Fadenkreuz der Geostrategie

Artikel von Werner Ruf in spw 1/2010 (pdf) http://www.spw.de/data/spw_176_ruf.pdf


Militärdienstleister: "Bundeswehr ist unser liebster Kunde"

„Seit die Bundeswehr im Ausland im Einsatz ist, freut sich die Düsseldorfer Firma Ecolog über das militärische Engagement. Ecolog wäscht die Uniformen der Soldaten, entsorgt ihren Müll, beseitigt ihr Abwasser und versorgt die Technik der Truppe mit Treibstoff. Die lange Geschäftsbeziehung, die 1999 im Kosovo begann und in Afghanistan fortdauert, überrascht: Mehrfach schon versagte der Dienstleister in der Qualität seiner Arbeit, wie gemeinsame Recherchen der Frankfurter Rundschau und der Wirtschaftswoche zeigen. Trotzdem hält die Bundeswehr zu Ecolog und vergibt viele Aufträge an die Firma freihändig, also ohne sie auszuschreiben…“ Artikel von Viktor Funk in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 06.03.2010 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2388702_Militaerdienstleister-Bundeswehr-ist-unser-liebster-Kunde.html


Militär-Outsourcing: Wenn Söldner streiken

„Die äthiopische Regierung wollte im Konflikt mit Eritrea (1997-1999) sparen. Sie mietete kurzerhand bei einer russischen Firma namens Sukhoi die komplette Luftwaffe, Piloten inbegriffen. Die aber weigerten sich, gegen die eritreischen Einheiten zu kämpfen - denn Eritrea hatte seine Flieger ebenfalls aus den Reihen der gut ausgebildeten russischen und ukrainischen Kampfflieger engagiert…“ Artikel von Andreas Schwarzkopf in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 06.03.2010 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/2388278_Militaer-Outsourcing-Wenn-Soeldner-streiken.html


Frisches Blut - Bundeswehr im Klassenzimmer

Antimilitaristische Aktion bei Bildungsmesse

„Am 6. März 2010 hat die Bundeswehr wie so oft wieder versucht, auf einer Aufbildungsmesse Jugendliche für ihre Kriege und als Kanonenfutter zu werden. Aus diesem Grund kam es zu einer antimilitaristischen Aktion vor deren Stand im Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart…“ Bericht vom 07.03.2010 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2010/03/275126.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 9. März 2010



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/04-8

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Kucinich Forces Congress to Debate Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/05-3



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By James A. Lucas

The U.S. was the main force that created the conditions that allowed the Mujahideen and the Taliban to come to power because of the support it gave 20 to 30 years ago to the most violent and anti-democratic forces within Afghanistan who ruled ruthlessly.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24897.htm



This Is Getting Good

By Joe Klein

Senate Republican, Jon Kyl of Arizona, makes clear, the Republicans are turning toward a form of reactionary radicalism that is well to the right not only of traditional conservatism, but also of post-Victorian concepts of government and--not to put too fine a point on it--of common decency as well.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24899.htm



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Independent Institute
by Charles Pena

A recent NATO airstrike in the province of Uruzgan — against what was thought to be a convoy of Taliban insurgents on their way to attack Afghan and foreign military forces — killed at least 27 Afghan civilians, including four women and a child. In February, more than 50 Afghan civilians are believed to have been killed in more than half a dozen U.S. and NATO military operations. The good news is that ‘collateral’ civilian casualties have dropped since Gen. Stanley McChrystal took over as the commanding general in Afghanistan, and he has apologized publicly for the casualties on Afghan national television. The bad news, however, is that — although they are fewer than before — civilian casualties are counterproductive to counterinsurgency. Although there is a military component to successful counterinsurgency, it is largely about winning hearts and minds. Killing innocent civilians — even unintentionally — is a prescription for defeat...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2738



Counterinsurgency isn’t “progressive”

Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

04/30/10

That it should even be necessary to point out that counterinsurgency is not a kindler and gentler form of warfare utterly astounds me. The U.S. operation in South Vietnam — Operation Phoenix, strategic hamlets, free fire zones, and all the rest of it — was a counterinsurgency. Ditto the Soviet operation in Afghanistan, the Brits in the Boer republics, the Spanish in Cuba, the American suppression of the Moros in the Philippines, the Japanese counterinsurgency in Manchuria, the Belgians in the Congo, and all the rest of it. All these operations aimed at the same general objective: preventing an occupied population from supporting an insurgency it sympathized with. And they all followed the same rulebook: herd the civilian population into glorified prison camps where they could be controlled, shooting everything that moved outside, and if necessary resorting to terror when support for the insurgency continued...

http://c4ss.org/content/2325


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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McChrystal's Support for Raids Belies New Image
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/31-6



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/26-7

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$2000 per dead child

By Francis Shor

The US military calculates what it will take to placate grieving Afghan parents.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24882.htm



We Murdered Our Children

By Jay Janson

We stand guilty of allowing a pathetic and desperate wealthy gang among us to mislead themselves and us into a frantic and immoral death causing materialism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24893.htm



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US now planning Kandahar offensive
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9439/

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Major Afghan offensive 'under way'

General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, said the offensive had begun with initial military and political efforts, including operations to secure key roads and districts.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/03/2010318152734763348.html



As Taliban makes comeback in Kunduz province, war spreads to northern Afghanistan

But the past year has brought such a dramatic Taliban comeback in Kunduz that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is planning to shift some of the ongoing troop reinforcements to the north of the country, the first significant American deployment to the region since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/18/AR2010031805399.html



Is Afghanistan going back in time to 2001?

The new government failed to extend its governance and authority beyond Kabul and the international community took its eye off the ball with the distraction of Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/uy07k



Russians Give Message to U.S. Generals in Afghanistan

Bribe the Taliban: Minutes of Secret Meeting Between Russian Veterans and Gen. Stanley McChrystal Also Say 'More Troops Won't Make A Difference'.

http://snipurl.com/uy07t


From Information Clearing House



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