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24May

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Afghanistan, USA

Three Dead Americans in Afghanistan Why?

NOVANEWS Memorial Day 2011: War Is Still An Old Recycled Lie By Allen L Roland War is a waste so why do we celebrate it with parades, flags and glorious war stories when, in reality, they are fought by our youth who are but pawns in the hands of old men ~ seduced by power and greed ~ who are more than willing to waste our most precious resource on illegal wars, occupations and the on going maintenance of an out of control military/ industrial complex : Allen L Roland The aspect of control and domination is a precipitating factor in all wars, and it is also the principle aspect of ego consciousness ~ which is directly contradictory to our innate propensity to unite and cooperate, which are the principle aspects of soul consciousness and the Unified Field. “Every gun that is made, every...

12May

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Criminal's NATO and Afghan raid kills girl, cop

NOVANEWS KABUL: NATO says its troops and Afghan forces mistakenly killed a young girl and a man who turned out to be a police officer during an overnight raid in eastern Afghanistan. A NATO statement Thursday says a combined NATO-Afghan force was pursuing a Taleban leader in Nangarhar province’s Surkh Rod district on Wednesday, when a man came out of the targeted house threatening them with a gun. It says the troops killed the man and then discovered he was a police officer. The troops also shot at someone running out of the back of the compound who they believed had a weapon. The soldiers later realized there was no weapon and that they had killed “an unarmed Afghan female adolescent.” A neighbor, who goes by the name of Ayatullah, says the girl was 12 years old.

2Apr

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Militarism, Mutilation, and Minerals: Understanding the Occupation of Afghanistan

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC By mid-2010, the war in Afghanistan had arguably passed Vietnam as the longest war in the history of the United States. At the war’s outset many U.S. citizens supported the invasion as a means of holding responsible those who orchestrated the attack on the World Trade Center. However, as time has passed and more American troops and Afghan civilians die, the U.S. government has struggled to maintain popular support by emphasizing other justifications for continuing the costly occupation. One of the most controversial concerns is the plight of women. Many commentators, some of them Afghan women, argue that the presence of coalition forces in their country has allowed them to be more active in politics and civil socie...

30Mar

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Afghanistan, World

Afghanistan: Number of children born with deformities increasing

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC by crescentandcross by Zarghona Salehi KABUL (PAN): The number of children born in Afghanistan with misshapen limbs and other deformities is increasing, doctors say, with several blaming intermarriage, drug use and chemicals contained in coalition weapons. There are no exact statistics of the number of children born with disabilities, but anecdotal evidence from hospitals in Kabul and the provinces suggests it is increasing. Dr. Trina Yadgari, an obstetrician at Istiqlal Hospital in Kabul, said that in 2008, 16 out of 3,700 children born at the hospital had some sort of birth defect, while in 2009 there were 4,000 births and 34 birth defects. She said most of the deformities happen in insecure provinces, blaming suicide ...

19Aug

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AFGHANISTAN: OBAMA RETRACT THE WITHDRAWAL PLEDGE

NOVANEWS Petraeus’s New Offensive: Prepares the Way for Obama to Retract the Withdrawal Pledge August 18, 2010 by Michael Leon General David Petraeus - Watch for those words “conditions on the ground” to come around again next July - By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive General David Petraeus is in the midst of his Afghanistan offensive. But it’s not against the Taliban; it’s against those in Congress, and those of us in the public, who oppose the ongoing-and escalating-Afghan war. Petraeus is preparing the battlefield for next summer, when President Obama is on record as saying the withdrawal from Afghanistan will commence. Petraeus announced very publicly over the weekend that he didn’t take the job as top general in Afghanistan to preside over “a graceful exit,” and he affirmed ...

17Aug

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PUPPET KARZAI DISBAND PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES

NOVANEWS Afghan presidential decree bans security firms August 17, 2010 by Michael Leon US soldiers patrol jointly with Canadian soldiers and the Afghan National Army in Kandahar By Heidi Vogt KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s president issued a decree Tuesday formalizing his four-month deadline for private security companies to disband — a move likely to dismay NATO and the U.S. military that rely on such firms to protect convoys and bases. Security operators — both Afghan and foreign — have become a point of contention between the government and coalition forces and the international community as complaints have mounted that the firms are poorly regulated, reckless and effectively operate outside local law. According to the decree, the tens of thousands of security contractors cur...

17Aug

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OBAMA'S AFGHAN STRATEGY IS NOT WORKING

NOVANEWS August 17, 2010 by Michael Leon By RIZWAN ASGHAR With every passing day there is growing perception in international media that President Obama’s Afghan strategy is not working. American public opinion in favour of Afghan war is rapidly eroding and majority of Americans think that situation is worsening in Afghanistan. A number of basic goals were set in Counter Insurgency Strategy (COIN) by President Obama almost a year ago. But none of them is near to be achieved. The first goal was to stabilize Afghanistan while pursuing a more effective civilian strategy. In it the main focus was on protecting major Afghan population centers along with agricultural areas and transportation routes. It was said that operations will be conducted in this way so that they would result in minimum ...

17Aug

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DISMEMBERING AFGHANISTAN

NOVANEWS August 15, 2010 by Michael Leon Wounded U.S. Soilder - The most radical of these schemes to salvage the Afghan disaster is being floated by the former U.S. ambassador to India, Robert Blackwell, a neoconservative mainstay and currently a lobbyist for India. Blackwell proposes partitioning Afghanistan into two countries: an independent, Pashtun-dominated south, and a northern and western section where Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras make up the majority. According to the scheme , “Pashtunistan” would be kept in line by armed drones and 30,000 to 40,000 U.S. Special Forces. - By Conn Hallinan in Foreign Policy in Focus Wars are rarely lost in a single encounter; Defeat is almost always more complex than that. The United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alli...

15Aug

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SERIAL DENIAL ON IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN

NOVANEWS August 13, 2010 by Michael Leon - The Permanent War System Rolls On - By Gareth Porter Two months ago, I wrote that the Obama administration and the U.S. command in Afghanistan faced an “Iraq 2006 moment” in the second half of 2010 – a collapse of domestic political support for a failed war paralleling the political crisis in Bush’s Iraq War in 2006. Now comes Republican Congressman Frank Wolf to make that parallel with 2006 eerily precise. Wolf published a letter to President Obama last week calling for the immediate establishment of an “Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group”. It would be the son of the Iraq Study Group. Wolf is the Congressman who authored the legislation in 2005 creating the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group to come up with fresh ideas for that failing war. ...

14Aug

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IN REALITY WE LOST THE AFGHANISTAN WAR

NOVANEWS We ‘lost’ the Afghanistan War: See reality and start talking August 10, 2010 by Michael Leon The NATO alliance is failing to win over Afghan civilians, a cornerstone of success in the current strategy employed in Afghanistan. In the two provinces currently at the center of the war — Helmand and Kandahar — 75 percent of Afghans believe foreigners disrespect their religion and traditions; 74 percent think working for foreign forces is wrong; 68 percent believe NATO will not protect them; and 65 percent think Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar should be part of the government. - By Conn Hallinan in Foreign Policy in Focus Wars are rarely lost in a single encounter; Defeat is almost always more complex than that. The United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NA...