Obama’s Unspoken Trade-Off: Dead US/NATO Occupation Troops versus Dead Afghan Civilians? KANDAHAR, Aug 5, 2009 : Villagers look at the bodies of three children after they were killed in an airstrike by foreign troops in Arghandab district of Kandahar, south…
Category: International
Blackwater down (or at least outed)
The US security firm formerly known as Blackwater is facing damaging new allegations about its behaviour in Iraq. Two former employees have filed testimony claiming their bosses encouraged the murder of Iraqis. The company has denied any wrongdoing, but allegations…
American GIs resist the wars
Inside G.I. Resistance: An interview with two former soldiers who describe how they helped prevent their unit from deploying to a war zone By Sarah Lazare, Counterpunch, August 5, 2009 What do you do if you are a soldier being…
The Last Fighting Tommy (of WW1)
Harry Patch, the “last fighting Tommy” to have survived the trenches of World War One, died on Saturday at the age of 111. For most of his life, he refused to speak of his horrific experiences. In recent years Mr.…
Afghanistan War Resister to “Put the War on Trial”
by Dahr Jamail, Truthout, July 14, 2009 US Army Specialist Victor Agosto served a 13-month deployment in Iraq with the 57th Expeditionary Signal Battalion. “What I did there, I know I contributed to death and human suffering,” Agosto told Truthout…
UK revokes selected Israeli arms licenses
U.K.: We revoked Israel arms licenses, but it’s no embargo By Barak Ravid, Haaretz, July 13, 2009 The British Embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed Monday that the United Kingdom has revoked a number of arms export licenses to Israel following…
After the Honduran Coup
Latin America Asks: Are the Gorillas Back? by John Ross, Counterpunch, July 12, 2009 The June 28th coup d’etat in Honduras that toppled leftist president Mel Zelaya sends us back to the bad old days of the “gorillas” – generals…
Prisoner abuse at Bagram, Afghanistan
Ex-detainees allege Bagram abuse by Ian Pannell, BBC News, June 24, 2009 Allegations of abuse and neglect at a US detention facility in Afghanistan have been uncovered by the BBC. A number of former detainees have alleged they were beaten,…
Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
By MARJORIE COHN, Counterpunch, June 15, 2009 From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most…
Obama’s Afghan War: The New Metric of Civilian Casualties
By Eneko in Diagonal Periódico by Professor Marc W. Herold, Global Research, June 12, 2009 During 2009, seven out of ten civilians killed by the Obama and NATO military machines have been women and children. Clearly, the Obama regime has…