A beggar in Kabul; as winter approaches, half of Afghans may not get enough to eat, the US Famine Early Warning Systems Network says. Photo: Getty By Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, Dec. 13, 2010 The most extraordinary failure of the…
US Now in Afghanistan Longer Than Soviets By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Dec. 8, 2010 US forces have now stayed longer in Afghanistan than the Soviet army during Moscow’s ill-fated intervention. The US military late last month exceeded the nine years…
KABUL, 2 December 2010 (IRIN) – Zarghoona* has completed her three-month sentence at a prison in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, but she is not allowed home because no male relative has shown up to guarantee that she will not run…
CBC News, Dec. 1, 2010 There are calls for public oversight of an elite military unit amid allegations that a Canadian soldier was involved in an unlawful killing of an Afghan. Federal politicians and a former member of the military…
By the Canadian Press, Nov. 27, 2010 TORONTO — The mother of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan picketed outside Liberal MP Bob Rae’s office on Saturday to urge the federal Conservative government to bring the troops home next year. Josie…
As I was about to say … … before I was so rudely interrupted by Jason Kenney: I hate terrorism, whether committed by a man in a turban or a politician in a suit By George Galloway, Ottawa Citizen, November…
By the Canadian Peace Alliance On November 18, Call your MP and the Party Leaders and demand…. Don’t Extend It. End It. The Conservative government, with the support of the Liberals are about to extend Canada’s war in Afghanistan. The…
By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers, Nov. 14, 2010 KARKAR COAL MINE, Afghanistan — Shovel-wielding miners in rags and plastic shoes, some with the protruding ribs and work-ravaged pallor of labor camp prisoners, toil deep inside this remote northern mountain,…
By Paul S. Graham, Nov. 13, 2010 Harper’s decision to continue Canada’s participation in the occupation of Afghanistan beyond 2011 is no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Ignatieff’s acquiescence is similarly unsurprising. Still, in light of previous…
By Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Nov. 11, 2010 “Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen.” (Mahatma Gandhi) “The United States…
