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• Obama’s Contributions to a Dying Empire

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  Old habits die hard, especially imperialist ones. Imperial imperatives, whether economic, geopolitical, or ideological, persist because the ruling elites are dependent on them. In order to conceal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• World Briefing | Europe: Germany: New View on Airstrike

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Germany’s defense minister told Parliament on Thursday that he had reassessed a German commander’s decision to call in a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan.
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• Panel Criticizes Military’s Use of Embedded Anthropologists

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  A two-year-old Pentagon program that assigns social scientists to work with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan has come under sharp criticism.
  3 days ago

• Taliban to CNN : Troop Increase ‘Means more dead Americans’

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 132
  CNN recently contacted a Taliban spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid for the group’s response to Obama’s recently announced U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan. Mujahid’s statement seems to echo similar fears from Afghans about mounting Afghan civilian casualties. According to Reuters, former Afghan Prime ...
  4 days ago

• UN: US troop surge must not kill more civilians

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  A surge of tens of thousands of American soldiers must not cause more civilian deaths, the top United Nations official in Afghanistan has warned.
  5 days ago

• National Briefing | South: Kentucky: Conviction Is Challenged

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  A former soldier who raped a girl and killed her and three family members in Iraq said he was wrongly tried in a civilian court and should have faced a military trial.
  6 days ago

• German minister quits over Afghan cover-up scandal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Berlin, Nov 27 (DPA) Former German defence minister Franz Josef Jung resigned his post as labour minister Friday over an alleged cover-up of civilian casualties in an airstrike in Afghanistan earlier this year.“I take the political responsibility for the internal information policy in the defence ministry” he told ...
  1 week ago

• NATO chief seeks troops for Afghanistan amid German crisis (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Berlin, Nov 26 (DPA) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that European states would have to send more troops to Afghanistan, as a scandal over civilian casualties in the country rocked the German government.Two of Germany’s highest military officials resigned and a former defence minister came ...
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• German General Resigns Over Afghan Air Strike

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 155
  German General Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Kabul, Afghanistan on Nov. 12.
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• The Picket Line — 26 November 2009

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 159
  26 November 2009 Today, I’m thankful for Fafblog : Had Nidal Malik Hasan been launched from a remotely-piloted Predator drone into a Pakistani funeral procession, it would have been a bold victory in the War on Terror; had the major been dropped onto a village in Waziristan or fired into an Afghan ...
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• Measuring Human Rights (9): When “Worse” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Worse”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 479
  I discussed in this older post  some of the problems related to the measurement of human rights violations, and to the assessment of progress or deterioration. One of the problems I mentioned is caused by improvements in measurement methods. Such improvements can in fact result in a statistic showing increasing ...
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• AFGHANISTAN: Afghan victims of Taliban violence suffer in silence

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 92
  AFPBy LYNNE O’DONNELLNovember 22, 2009KABUL — The stench of sewage hangs in the air as barefoot children clamber up a suburban hillside in Kabul, past green flags that flap over the graves of Afghans killed in suicide attacks.Perhaps a third of the tombs, each surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, are marked as the ...
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• Landmine targeting army convoy detected in Assam

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Guwahati, Nov 23 (IANS) A major tragedy was averted in Assam Monday with security forces detecting a powerful landmine planted on a road used by army convoys to reach the Chinese border along the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, officials said.An army spokesperson said soldiers on a routine patrol Monday ...
  2 weeks ago

• Afghan Air War: More fighting, More Bombs, and Continued Civilian Casualties

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 795
  Filed under: Afghanistan Journal , Afghanistan SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- American strike fighters and bombers are pounding insurgents in Afghanistan with increasing fury, despite a standing order by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander, to avoid civilian casualties. President Obama is expected ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letters: Using Drones in Afghanistan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  To the Editor:.
  2 weeks ago

• The horror of war, up close and personal

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 134
  this is the kind of photo that our esteemed media generally choose not to publish because it brings the reality of war to close to home but its precisely this kind of photo that we need to see... here is a young boy who has obviously been seriously wounded in a rocket attack today on a market in tagab, afghanistan... ...
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• Three Americans killed in Afghan bomb explosions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Kabul, Nov 14 (DPA) Three Americans - two soldiers and a civilian - were killed in two roadside bomb explosions in Afghanistan, NATO-led military said Saturday.One NATO-led US soldier was killed in a homemade roadside bomb explosion in the volatile southern region Friday, a statement.A soldier and a civilian ...
  3 weeks ago

• Muslims Bombing Muslims!!!

  
  Obiter Dictum — Authority: 104
  Muslims (Saudis) are shelling and bombing Muslims (Yemenis) and we are not getting hourly photos of the civilian casualties! Read the rest at American Thinker .
  3 weeks ago

• Charges Prompt Iraqis to Look Into Blackwater

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 155
  The Iraqi interior minister ordered an investigation into whether top Blackwater officials approved of bribes to Iraqi government officials after fatal shootings in 2007.
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - We Will Not Solve the Problem with Troops Alone

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 119
  This interview, with National Security Adviser General James Jones, was published by Spiegel Online International, November 9, 2009 US National Security Adviser James L. Jones talks to SPIEGEL about his skepticism regarding calls for more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan, the chances of Pakistans nuclear ...
  3 weeks ago

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