Received from the Peaceful Skies Coalition, originally published by Santa Fe New Mexican 11/12/2010: By Seth Mosgofian My family, friends, neighbors and I are extremely concerned that the Air Force has proposed…
Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
For More Than Ten Years the Richest Country in the World Has Been “At War” With the Poorest Country in the World
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US Deploying Battle Tanks to Afghanistan
From Khaleej Times WASHINGTON — The United States is deploying heavily armored battle tanks to Afghanistan for the first time in the nine-year war, in a further escalation of tactics against the…
Obama’s Afghan Policy: War Without End, Amen
By Kenneth J. Theisen In October 2001, then Vice President Dick Cheney said that the just launched U.S. “war on terror” was “different” than other wars: ‘‘in the sense that it may…
The U.S.’s Mercenaries in Afghanistan
From A World to Win News Service The flap about President Hamid Karzai’s threat to restrict the use of mercenaries in Afghanistan sheds a bright light on what the U.S. and its…
US Drone Strikes Kill at Least 13 in North Waziristan
Two Vehicles, House Destroyed in Attacks By Jason Ditz CIA Predator drones launched three separate attacks in North Waziristan today, destroying two vehicles and a house in the Pakistani tribal agency, killing…
Obama and Petraeus: “Preparing the Battlefield” in Pakistan
By Chris Floyd Pentagon brass and their sycophants in mufti are now making the media rounds, laying the groundwork for the next great move by the world-historical military genius David Petraeus, the…
Red Cross: Civilian Toll Soars in Southern Afghanistan
By Jason Ditz A new report by the International Committee of the Red Cross warned today that civilian casualties are soaring in Southern Afghanistan, and that those directly wounded are a comparatively…
U.S. in Pakistan: First Kill, then ‘Apologize’
By Jason Ditz After six days of officially defending the attack against Pakistani soldiers in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas as “self defense,” the United States has made an enormous U-turn in…
Uncertainty over US plans as war enters 10th year
AP Report on the anniversary of the longest war in US history: It’s make-or-break time in Afghanistan. The war enters its 10th year Thursday, and this is no ordinary anniversary. With extra American troops…
Eight Germans Reported Killed in US Drone Strike
By Jason Ditz Eight German citizens were reported killed today in a US drone strike against the North Waziristan Agency, in an attack officials tried to link to a plot which led…