BOOK REVIEW ‘We blew her to pieces’ Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan by Aaron Glantz Reviewed by Dahr Jamail Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the United States military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves.…
Category: International
British diplomat feels Afghan war being lost: report
Story cites leaked cable from France’s deputy ambassador in Kabul CBC News, Oct. 1, 2008 A French newspaper has published what appears to be a diplomatic cable saying Britain’s ambassador to Kabul thinks the West is losing the battle for…
Secret society campaigns for female rights
A RAWA class. Photo: Anja Niedringhaus / AP by Chris Sands, Foreign Correspondent The National, September 22, 2008 KABUL // They often stay in safehouses and they do not give their names to the media. Sometimes even their relatives have…
Harrowing video backs Afghan villagers’ claims of carnage caused by US troops
by Tom Coghlan The Times Online, September 9, 2008 [youtube t8p9nRXKpmc] As the doctor walks between rows of bodies, people lift funeral shrouds to reveal the faces of children and babies, some with severe head injuries. Women are heard wailing…
Afghans will dig up graves to prove civilian deaths
An Afghan woman on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 holds a poster with photos of her family members, who were killed on August 22, 2008 during a US led raid in Azizabad village of Shindand district of Herat province. Photo: RAWA…
Afghans protest civilian deaths
Afghans protest against continuous civilian death by International troops Afghans carry the bodies of two children who they say were killed by U.S-led troops in Kabul early September 1, 2008. Hundreds of protesters blocked a road in Kabul on Monday…
Update: War resister Robin Long sentenced to prison
War Resister Robin Long Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison Sarah Lazare, Alternet, August 25, 2008 Robin Long, an Iraq War resister deported from Canada into U.S. military custody last month, was sentenced today to 15 months of confinement and…
Sailing to war with Iran (and beyond)
The first stage of a naval blockade directed against Iran would in all likelihood be initiated by Maritime Security Operations, of which the HMCS Iroquois (above) is a part. It would constitute an act of war, and perhaps the beginning…
Rape in Burma: a weapon of war
by Cheery Zahau The Women’s International Perspective, June 2, 2008 In the devastating aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, international scrutiny highlights the military junta that rules Burma, a Southeast Asian country that shares borders with China, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos.…
Afghan civilian death toll rises
Coalition air strikes kill 76 Afghan civilians: interior ministry KABUL (AFP) — A US-led coalition military operation in western Afghanistan on Friday killed 76 civilians, including 50 children and 19 women, the Afghan interior ministry said. The coalition confirmed it…