World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/13

Cameron, Obama Agree: Continue War on Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/14-7

The Systemic Atrocity of Afghanistan s Occupation
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/14-2

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Another Civilian Massacre and the Savagery of Our Soldiers

By Nima Shirazi

The killing has continued unabated for over ten years and is routinely ignored by the mainstream media, which choose instead to praise American soldiers for their duty, their heroism, and their sacrifice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30807.htm



The systemic atrocity of Afghanistan s occupation

Is there a morally significant difference between murder, like the Panjwai massacre, and collateral damage? Ask Afghan civilians.

http://bit.ly/y9ohgH



US Marine Kills Women Children Gets 3 Months

It was a stunning and muted end to a case once described as the Iraq War s version of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30339.htm



Up to 20 US Troops Behind Kandahar Bloodbath/Rape - Afghan Probe

By RT

He appealed to the international community to ensure that the responsible parties were brought to justice, stressing the Afghan parliament would not rest until the killers were prosecuted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30844.htm



Kandahar slaughter preplanned, executed by squad: Afghan top brass

The Afghan Army Chief of Staff says the slaughter of 16 civilians, including nine children, in Kandahar province was a premeditated assassination carried out by a number of servicemen, RIA Novosti reports, citing Afghan media.

http://rt.com/news/kandahar-massacre-counterinsurgency-operation-805/



The Kandahar Massacre

By M A Niazi

It is an unfortunate truth that in a culture that glorifies violence, the armed forces attract the very kind of persons prone to such sudden outbursts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30847.htm



Women sexually assaulted before killing in Panjwai

US soldiers were alleged to have sexually assaulted two female victims before they were killed in the Panjwai massacre in southern Kandahar last Sunday, a high-level Afghan probe team revealed.

http://bit.ly/xQGWNT



Afghanistan: $2 Billion a Week for Hatred is Too Much, FBI Says Now It s Coming Here

By Ralph Lopez

I want a better deal on the hatred we are buying.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30848.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Was Soldier-Shooter in Afghanistan Redeployed With PTSD?

Ralph Lopez, War Is A Crime: ''The Army is keeping mum on whether the Army sergeant who went on a rampage in Afghanistan has ever been evaluated or asked for evaluation for PTSD, but it is well known that in recent years the culture of the military has been to sweep such problems under the rug, in order to redeploy as many soldiers as possible. The Army has acknowledged that the soldier had been diagnosed with a 'traumatic brain injury' after a vehicle rollover in Iraq.''

http://www.truth-out.org/was-soldier-shooter-afghanistan-redeployed-ptsd/1331737327

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Massacre As Metaphor
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo164.html

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Massacres and PTSD

CounterPunch
by Saul Landau

04/01/12

The US has lost the war in Afghanistan. After eleven years of US occupation, preceded by Taliban brutality, preceded, by US-backed war-lords, who took over from a communist government supported by Soviet military occupation, Afghanistan is also full of people with PTSD...

http://bit.ly/HO6OpU


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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