Category: International

War pollutes and poisons

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Robert B. Brown, with Combat Camera Unit, Regimental Combat Team 6, watches over the civilian firefighters at the burn pit as smoke and flames rise into the night sky behind him in Camp Fallujah, Iraq, May…

Afghan torture allegations erupt in U.K.

Detainees tell of ‘electrocution, beating, whipping, stress positions’ By CBC News, April 21, 2010 Afghan detainees handed over by British troops to Afghan secret police were regularly beaten with weapons, hung from the ceiling and electrocuted, according to detailed allegations…

In Kandahar: “Yankees, go home!”

94 Percent of Kandaharis Support Negotiations With the Taliban – Kandahar Campaign Doomed Before It Begins? By Gareth Porter, Counterpunch, April 19, 2010 An opinion survey of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province funded by the U.S. Army has revealed that 94 percent…

CIA spins the Afghan war

Leaked Document Discloses CIA Plans to Target European Public Opinion over Afghan War By Antifascist Calling, March 28, 2010 Since their 2007 launch, the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks have been the subject of “hostile acts” by state and private security…