World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/19

New Survey Shows Record-High Opposition to 'Worthless' Afghan War
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/26-1

The PTSD Crisis That s Being Ignored: Americans Wounded in Their Own Neighborhoods
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/04-2

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65 killed in US overnight airstrikes in Afghanistan

The casualties came after a series of airstrikes happened in an area of Paktia Province on Sunday night. The US military has confirmed separate air raids in three villages, saying those killed were militants.

http://is.gd/qJeRUi



U.S. Military Has Awarded Contracts To Al-Qaeda In Afghanistan

By Michael Krieger

Yep, this is exactly what happens when an empire gets too big, too corrupt, and ends up in the hands of a bunch of sociopaths.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35716.htm



US decreasing not withdrawing forces from Afghanistan: Kerry

''Not every single soldier will leave in 2014. We have been very clear about that. We are not withdrawing we are drawing down.''

http://is.gd/SbsOpH



White House Closes Inquiry Into Afghan Massacre and Will Release No Details

The silence leaves many unanswered questions about what may have been one of the worst war crimes since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, including why previous American investigations were shut down, and how evidence was destroyed in the case.

http://is.gd/WuiJLq



Afghan Massacre : The Convoy of Death

Video

In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm



Burqas and Empire, Again

By Zillah Eisenstein

The lead up to the Afghan war in post-9/11 used the rhetoric of 'women s rights' to mobilise the American public. We were supposed to save their women from the Taliban and their 'backward ways'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35814.htm



How Afghanistan s Poorest Bear the Brunt of the War

By Mujib Mashal

Abdul Basit has seen what no 7-year-old should see.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35840.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Sending broken men back into Afghanistan

Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
08/27/13

Most of us cannot understand the pain associated with post-traumatic stress in any visceral way, as described by this recent veteran from the Iraq War: 'My mind is a wasteland, filled with visions of incredible horror, unceasing depression, and crippling anxiety.' Now think of the veteran who wrote these words, 30-year-old Daniel Somers, being sent back into the warzone for another tour of duty. Clearly a joke, right? Not exactly...

http://tinyurl.com/mnr5fnl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Lying us into another war
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/government-terror/lying-us-into-another-war-.html



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