Iraq: Investigation into new claims of torture by British soldiers
• Daily TelegraphNew allegations that British soldiers tortured and sexually abused Iraqi civilians are being "investigated" by the Ministry of Defence.
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WAR: About that War
Motive vs. Justification
• FFF / Jacob HornbergerWhy don’t U.S. officials favor examination into motive and instead do their best to confuse it with justification?
Russian Deal on Afghan Supply Route Not a Deal Yet
• NY TimesWhen he met Russian President Medvedev, President Obama sought an important new supply corridor for Afghanistan by flying American troops and weapons through Russian airspace. As many as 4,500 flights a year, in a “substantial contribution” to the wa
Bomb hits Pakistan's spy agency
• Washington PostA powerful car bomb exploded in front of the national intelligence agency building in the Pakistani city of Peshawar early Friday morning, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 30, military and intelligence officials said.
U.S. envoy to Afghanistan warns on more troops
• Washington PostIn the final stages of its deliberations over a new war strategy, the administration's attention has shifted to the two governments whose cooperation and competence are considered essential to success -- Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In Kabul's 'Obama Market,' U.S. military rations on sale
• McClatchy NewsFirst came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market. Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and supplies bought or stolen from the vast U.S. military bases by the name of the current American president, a modest cou
Happy Veteran's Day to Billy on his birthday.
Found ZeroI celebrated Veteran's Day with "Viet Nam Billy". It's also Billy's birthday. Sometimes I wish I could do more for the vets but sometimes what you can do is enough.
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Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Afternoon November 11th 2009
Program Date:Dahr Jamail is the author of "The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan." / Military Religious Freedom Foundation Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein separating church and state in armed forces.
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died
• NY TimesTop executives at Blackwater authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.
Where Will They Get the Troops?
• by Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare - www.globalresearAs the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, an already overstretched military is increasingly struggling to meet its deployment numbers. Surprisingly, one place it seems to be targeting is mil
Gorbachev Says Obama Should Start Afghan Withdrawal
• BloombergFormer Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan in the 1980s, said the U.S. can’t win the conflict there and should begin pulling out its soldiers. Afghanistan is too fragmented between clans to
Navies of 2 Koreas exchange fire near border
• APA badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, the first such clash in seven years, South Korean officials said. There were no South Korean
UN declares Afghan election "credible, legitimate"
• ReutersThe U.N. General Assembly declared Afghanistan's presidential election was both credible and sound, despite allegations of widespread fraud that led critics to question the vote's legitimacy. In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 192-nation assemb
Defending the Arsenal - In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?
• by Seymour M. Hersh - The New YorkerThe USA, he said, could “make sure that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is secure—primarily, initially, because the Pakistan Army, I think, recognizes the hazards of those weapons’ falling into the wrong hands.” The questioner, Chuck Todd, of NBC, began
Conservatives' Blind Support of "Our Troops"
• GlobalResearch.caIn Defense of the Big Lie
Happy Birthday, Pat Tillman
• truthdig.com via LewRockwell.com...Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is...Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
• McClatchy NewsPresident Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month.
Iraqis pass election law crucial to U.S. withdrawal plans
• McClatchy NewsAfter nearly a dozen delays and a final, rowdy session, Iraq's parliament on Sunday passed a law setting national elections for January, averting for now a political crisis that threatened to unravel the country's slow progress toward stability. A
Dead Kennedys - WAAAAYY Ahead of Their Time
• Jello BiafraThis 4:17 spoken word rant is from the 80s but it rings truer than ever today.....
At least 25 hurt in U.S. troop search in Afghanistan
• ReutersMore than 25 NATO and Afghan troops were wounded during a search Friday for two missing U.S. paratroopers in western Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said. The Taliban said the two missing soldiers were dead and it had recovered their bodies. A
Afghanistan hits back at U.N. and foreign criticism
• ReutersAfghanistan accused the United Nations on Saturday of intervening in the formation of President Hamid Karzai's next cabinet, less than a week into his new term. Since being re-elected in a controversial poll in which a fraud investigation rejected
Prospect of More U.S. Troops Worries Afghan Public
• NY TimesIf the foreign forces are not seen so by Afghans already, they are on the cusp of being regarded as occupiers, with little to show people for their extended presence, fueling wild conspiracies about why they remain here. The feeling is particularl
U.S. Expected to Request More War Financing
• NY TimesThe nation’s top military officer said he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for
British deaths raise questions about Afghan police
• APFive British soldiers, who had been advising Afghan policemen, were shot and killed at a checkpoint where they were living. Another six soldiers were wounded, as were two Afghan policemen when the soldiers returned fire, officials said.
U.N. to pull out 900 staff from Afghanistan: source
• Reuters[Things are going swell.] The United Nations will evacuate 900 of its international staff from Afghanistan starting Thursday, citing security concerns, a U.N. source in Kabul said. "The United Nations is reducing the number of its international staff
U.S. drafts Afghan 'Compact' it hopes will bolster new Karzai government
• McClatchy NewsThe Obama administration has been quietly working with U.S. allies and Afghan officials on a package of reforms and anti-corruption measures that it hopes will boost popular support for President Hamid Karzai and erase the doubts about his legitimacy
Karzai declared Afghan president, run-off scrapped
• Reuters"The Independent Election Commission declares the esteemed Hamid Karzai as the president ... because he was the winner of the first round and the only candidate in the second round," the commission's chief Azizullah Ludin told a news conference.
The Vietnam moment
• Financial TimesIn the next 2 weeks, Mr Obama is likely to bring months of agonized deliberation to a close when he decides how many more troops to send to Afghanistan. The decision, much like the one by Lyndon Johnson to step up involvement in Indochina, could prov
Simple Afghan mission turns deadly for U.S. soldiers
• ReutersSome 20 U.S. soldiers were to patrol a riverbed in the dead of night, camp until morning, and provide backup to Afghan troops and their Canadian mentors in a clearing operation in Chahar Bagh village, an insurgent hotbed on the outskirts of Kandahar
Karzai rival Abdullah quits Afghan run-off
• ReutersAfghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah quit an election run-off after accusing the government of not meeting his demand for a fair vote, leaving doubts over the legitimacy of the next government. A weakened Afghan government under President
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