The Value of American and Afghan Lives
By Tom Engelhardt
At the very least, the Afghan War has given a different meaning to the ceremonial phrase ''till death do us part.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31623.htm
Top UK Award Goes to Journalist Who Exposed Secrets of Afghanistan War
By The Martha Gellhorn Trust
Gareth Porter, the Washington-based journalist, has won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for 2012 for his investigation of US 'killing strategy' in Afghanistan, including the targeting of people through their mobile phones.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31619.htm
Afghanistan: The Top Ten Lies that Recur in the Mainstream Media
By James O'Neill
#1. That the West's involvement in Afghanistan was initiated by the events of 11 September 2001.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31660.htm
'Bye, Bye Miss American Pie'
Video
It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31780.htm
Another Killing Machine
By Ayaz Wazir
No country in the world has suffered so much and for so long at the hands of two super powers in the last thirty years than Afghanistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31770.htm
U.S. Has No Idea Who s a Taliban 'Leader,' Still Boasts About Killing Them
Since January 2011, ISAF occupation force troops have killed or captured at least 104 Afghan resistant ''leaders''. You might expect the resistance to be battered from the loss of so many senior commanders in such a short period of time.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/taliban-leaders/
US burning money in Afghanistan
We are now talking big time billions that have probably filled the bank accounts of many Americans and Iraqis and others elsewhere. So, many of the people who are warmongers in this country championing wars have probably been well repaid by now.
http://is.gd/Vg4grl
Rep. Jim McGovern: 15 Members of Congress Speak Out: End the War in Afghanistan
Today, 14 of my colleagues from both parties joined me in speaking out against the war in Afghanistan.
http://is.gd/2tqMsj
72% of Americans and 25% of Congress Members Say: Get Out of Afghanistan!
http://is.gd/YC76Hd
''American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People s Lives''
By Larry Everest
Every issue-from jobs to manufacturing to the environment-gets filtered through ''what s good for America,'' and how ''we'' can keep America No. 1. All this is sickening and immoral.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31986.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Biden warned Obama about Afghanistan fiasco
Syracuse Post-Standard
06/25/12
As President Barack Obama considered adding as many as 40,000 U.S. forces to a backsliding war in Afghanistan in 2009, Vice President Joe Biden warned him that the military rationale for doing so was flawed, a new book about Obama s expansion of the conflict says. ... A previously undisclosed Biden memo to Obama in November 2009 reflects his view that military commanders were asking Obama to take a leap by adding tens of thousands of forces whose role was poorly defined...
http://bit.ly/MmUnom
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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ACLU: The Government s Pseudo-Secrecy Snow Job on Targeted Killing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/26-4
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joe+Biden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=superpower
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ISAF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warmonger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+secrecy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=target+killing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ACLU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nathan+Freed+Wessler
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ayaz+Wazir
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Larry+Everest
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At the very least, the Afghan War has given a different meaning to the ceremonial phrase ''till death do us part.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31623.htm
Top UK Award Goes to Journalist Who Exposed Secrets of Afghanistan War
By The Martha Gellhorn Trust
Gareth Porter, the Washington-based journalist, has won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for 2012 for his investigation of US 'killing strategy' in Afghanistan, including the targeting of people through their mobile phones.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31619.htm
Afghanistan: The Top Ten Lies that Recur in the Mainstream Media
By James O'Neill
#1. That the West's involvement in Afghanistan was initiated by the events of 11 September 2001.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31660.htm
'Bye, Bye Miss American Pie'
Video
It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31780.htm
Another Killing Machine
By Ayaz Wazir
No country in the world has suffered so much and for so long at the hands of two super powers in the last thirty years than Afghanistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31770.htm
U.S. Has No Idea Who s a Taliban 'Leader,' Still Boasts About Killing Them
Since January 2011, ISAF occupation force troops have killed or captured at least 104 Afghan resistant ''leaders''. You might expect the resistance to be battered from the loss of so many senior commanders in such a short period of time.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/taliban-leaders/
US burning money in Afghanistan
We are now talking big time billions that have probably filled the bank accounts of many Americans and Iraqis and others elsewhere. So, many of the people who are warmongers in this country championing wars have probably been well repaid by now.
http://is.gd/Vg4grl
Rep. Jim McGovern: 15 Members of Congress Speak Out: End the War in Afghanistan
Today, 14 of my colleagues from both parties joined me in speaking out against the war in Afghanistan.
http://is.gd/2tqMsj
72% of Americans and 25% of Congress Members Say: Get Out of Afghanistan!
http://is.gd/YC76Hd
''American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People s Lives''
By Larry Everest
Every issue-from jobs to manufacturing to the environment-gets filtered through ''what s good for America,'' and how ''we'' can keep America No. 1. All this is sickening and immoral.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31986.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Biden warned Obama about Afghanistan fiasco
Syracuse Post-Standard
06/25/12
As President Barack Obama considered adding as many as 40,000 U.S. forces to a backsliding war in Afghanistan in 2009, Vice President Joe Biden warned him that the military rationale for doing so was flawed, a new book about Obama s expansion of the conflict says. ... A previously undisclosed Biden memo to Obama in November 2009 reflects his view that military commanders were asking Obama to take a leap by adding tens of thousands of forces whose role was poorly defined...
http://bit.ly/MmUnom
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
ACLU: The Government s Pseudo-Secrecy Snow Job on Targeted Killing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/26-4
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joe+Biden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=superpower
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ISAF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warmonger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+secrecy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=target+killing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ACLU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nathan+Freed+Wessler
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ayaz+Wazir
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Larry+Everest
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