World-News

An Afghan police commander and several of his men killed three U.S. soldiers in the southern province of Helmand, turning guns on them after inviting them to a dinner to discuss security, Afghan officials said on Friday.

http://is.gd/HBaQfM



Three US special ops troops killed, Afghan officials say

A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American Marines, the U.S. military command said Friday. Afghan officials said the victims were American special operations forces troops.

http://is.gd/0nAkLI



US Kills 50 People In Afghanistan

About 50 militants were killed on Saturday afternoon when a NATO pilotless plane carried out an attack in Afghanistan s eastern province of Kunar, the police said.

http://is.gd/UsTiBe



Afghan Policeman Kills U.S. Service Member on Joint Patrol

A U.S. service member was killed in southern Afghanistan today on a patrol with Afghan security forces when one of the Afghans turned his weapon on the Americans, the latest in a rash of what the ISAF is now calling ''insider'' attacks on American troops.

http://is.gd/T4oy1w



Two NATO occupation force soldiers killed by Afghan army

Two NATO soldiers were killed Monday when an Afghan army soldier opened fire against coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led coalition said in a statement.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7925077.html


From Information Clearing House

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Deadly Week Continues in Afghanistan With Helicopter Crash, 11 Dead
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/16-1

Latest 'Green on Blue' Attack Leaves Two Dead in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/17-0



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/23-2

Conditions at U.S.-Funded Afghan Hospital
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/01-0

Unending War Makes Life 'Misery' for Afghans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/07

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US inspector general: Millions lost in Afghan reconstruction

Brisbane Courier-Mail [Australia]

07/30/12

Millions of dollars in US funds have been lost due to poor planning and workmanship in projects to help rebuild Afghanistan and billions more could be at risk, a US watchdog says. The report by the special inspector general for Afghanistan, John Sopko, warned that handing over security to Afghan forces as the US withdraws its troops would also likely balloon the costs of US-funded aid schemes. ... The analysis examines the Afghan Infrastructure Fund, which was authorised by Congress in 2010. Over the past two years, Congress has invested $800 million into the fund, and the State Department has committed about $1 billion of its funds to related infrastructure programs...

http://bit.ly/NRAWop


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Mission Failure Afghanistan: A Message Written in Blood That No One Wants to Hear

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: ''If the Aurora shootings got all the attention here last week, far more Americans are dying at the hands of Afghan allies than died in James Holmes s hail of gunfire. And yet the message from the more deadly of those rampages is barely in the news and few here are paying attention.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10618-mission-failure-afghanistan-a-message-written-in-blood-that-no-one-wants-to-hear



Why Afghanistan Can t Wait

Kathy Kelly and Dr. Hakim, RootsAction: ''In small ways, real strength asserts itself, in small work, repeated a thousand fold, by people like the Afghan Peace Volunteers ... in small actions we invite the world to emulate the torrent that erodes walls, with which we build an alternative to the lie of exceptionalism, the lie of security, the lie of violence.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10783-why-afghanistan-cant-wait

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Sick of Being Occupied

Collaborators turn on their invaders.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt447.html

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NATO occupation force troops kill 4 Afghan civilians

According to local authorities in western Nimroz province of Afghanistan, a number of Afghan civilians were killed following night time military operation by coalition security forces in this province.

http://is.gd/LS4kT3


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11031/

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Pentagon says airstrikes on Afghan homes will continue

The US Defense Department said Tuesday it would continue to conduct airstrikes aimed at civilian homes in defiance of Afghan President Hamid Karzai s statement banning such action.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2246871&Language=en



Are U.S. military leaders lying about Afghanistan?

Senior military officials are lying to the American public about conditions on the ground in Afghanistan.

http://is.gd/W4M3aT


From Information Clearing House



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President Hamid Karzai also warned his government will in the future consider any such actions as violating a pact signed between Afghanistan and the United States.

http://is.gd/rNMuQM


From Information Clearing House



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''This is unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated.''

By Robert Dreyfuss

Karzai is charging that a NATO airstrike killed 18 Afghan civilians, including woman and children, as part of a U.S.-led ground operation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31520.htm



''Ashamed To Even Be American''

America s Last Prisoner of War

By Michael Hastings

Three years ago, a 23-year-old soldier walked off his base in Afghanistan and into the hands of the Taliban. Now he s a crucial pawn in negotiations to end the war. Will the Pentagon leave a man behind?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31531.htm



American Empire: the Feature Film

By Ron Jacobs

Most people who live in the United States have little or no concept of what an empire is and, when explained to them, are reluctant to believe that their nation is such a thing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31533.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis294.html

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8 civilians killed in US-led airstrike in eastern Afghanistan

A man, his wife and six of their children were killed in the attack on Saturday in the village of Suri Khail in the Gurda Saria district of Paktia Province, a local government spokesman Rohullah Samoon said.

http://bit.ly/KG1po7


From Information Clearing House

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A Jo rneyman s Song

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: ''His name was Ryan J. Wilson. He was from California, 26 years old, and he died on the 20th of May serving in the Afghanistan war. According to the Department of Defense, Ryan J. Wilson was the 3,000th member of the coalition forces fighting that war, and the 1,974th American, to die since it began a decade ago.... I never met him, and I never will. I wish I d gotten the chance. Don t forget him. Don t forget any of them. We are surely damned if we do.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9407-a-jorneymans-song



Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars

David Swanson, War Is a Crime: ''A Congressional report in 2010 documented payoffs made by the U.S. to the Taliban for the safe passage of goods through Afghanistan, payoffs that amounted to either the first or second largest source of income for the Taliban, the other being opium. Afghans, including those fighting for the Taliban, often signed up for training and pay from the United States and then departed, sometimes repeating the process a number of times. The United States has been funding, training, and arming both sides of the war.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9419-lies-and-consequences-in-our-past-15-wars

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Afghan Children Dead After US Air Assault
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/06-1



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''NATO Talks a Sham''

By Dennis Kucinich

''The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not a benevolent organization. NATO is not about the North Atlantic and it's not about our collective defense.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31402.htm



The End in Afghanistan is Totally Predictable

By Dave Lindorff

The American forces in Afghanistan know they have already lost the war there. They know too that as soon as the last of them has boarded the last plane out, or perhaps even earlier, the current corrupt Afghan leadership will be hopping a commercial flight out too, to join their money in Switzerland or Abu Dhabi.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31408.htm

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Drone Attacks Can t Save the G8 s Bacon

Nick Mottern, Truthout: ''Many of the G8 countries, comprised of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Russia, are former colonial powers that have thrived by capturing at gunpoint basic mineral, petroleum and agriculture resources around the world, paying relatively little and thus subsidizing their corporations and their national economies. Right now, the G8 interest in Afghanistan is undoubtedly related to investment potential in minerals, as well as overland routes for oil, gas and electric lines.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9236-drone-attacks-cant-save-the-g8s-bacon

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The end in Afghanistan

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

05/22/12

How much worse must those soldiers feel than the US soldiers in Vietnam, who at least didn t have an end-point held out in front of them to taunt them. Today s American soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan fight staring at a surrender date at which point all their fighting and killing and dying and being will be acknowledged as having been in vain. The American soldiers in Vietnam in 1971 or 1972 could at least pretend that after they left, the South Vietnamese government might at least try to fight on and establish itself...

http://bit.ly/K98UnQ


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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U.S. Military Defeated in Vietnam
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff385.html



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Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''One thing the Afghan war policy hasn t lost: the GOP leadership. That was demonstrated Wednesday night when the GOP leadership blocked consideration in the House of a bipartisan amendment offered by Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) and Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) that would have nailed to the wall the current, slippery 'timetable' for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. There you have it. The reason that the amendment couldn t be allowed to come to a vote was because it could pass.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9241-how-house-gop-leaders-silenced-support-for-amendment-solidifying-afghanistan-withdrawal-timeline

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Congress, Standing Against Public Majority, Votes for More War in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18

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NATO summit to define enduring presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014

One of the major topics in the NATO summit is to ''establish a vision for our enduring presence in Afghanistan,'' said General John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO force in Afghanistan, as American Forces Press Service reported.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-05/17/c_131593250.htm


From Information Clearing House

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What To Expect at the GOP Convention in Tampa
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/05/25/279-what-to-expect-at-the-gop-convention-in-tampa/



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/11-4

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Why two soldiers were killed by Afghan police in a lost war

These soldiers died because the British government would rather continue fighting an unjustified war that is being lost than admit that after eleven years nothing has been achieved but mass slaughter and destruction.

http://bit.ly/J7pt3i


From Information Clearing House

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US House OKs continued ops in Afghanistan (but still hasn t declared war)

Wyoming Tribune Eagle

05/17/12

The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after more than a decade of conflict. By a vote of 303-113, lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have swiftly ended combat operations in Afghanistan by limiting funds only to the 'safe and orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops and military contractors from Afghanistan'...

http://tinyurl.com/copl9ah


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Pact Won t End War Or SOF Night Raids

By Gareth Porter

The Obama administration s success in obscuring those facts is the real story behind the ostensible story of the agreement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31236.htm



About 25,000 Troops May Be Needed In Afghanistan After 2014, Planners Say

American military officials say that the planning figure is 25,000 troops, commanded by a three-star general. They would include trainers as well as thousands of Green Berets and other special operations troops who would work with Afghans on counter-terror missions.

http://n.pr/JDcxlj



A Decade of War-for What?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Taliban have shown themselves willing to persist against huge odds, to fight and die in considerable numbers for the kind of country they wish to live in-and the kind of regime they wish to live under. Our allies have not remotely matched their zeal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31247.htm



US Kills 5 Afghan Kids

By Glenn Greenwald

The way in which the U.S. media ignores such events speaks volumes about how we perceive them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31275.htm



Afghanistan: US airstrikes kill at least 14 civilians

NATO officials confirmed on Monday that an airstrike launched late Friday in the Sangin district of Helmand Province, Afghanistan resulted in the death of one mother and five children.

http://bit.ly/Jal5P7


From Information Clearing House

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Leaving Afghanistan by Staying

David Swanson, War Is a Crime: ''Obama is full of praise for U.S. troops, as if they have benefitted Afghanistan. And he is full of concern for the suffering of U.S. troops and U.S. citizens.... 'Neither Americans nor the Afghan people asked for this war,' Obama said, forgetting that one of those two countries had invaded the other one and occupied it for over a decade. 'The reason America is safe is because of you,' Obama told U.S. troops, forgetting that the war has made our nation more hated around the world.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8945-leaving-afghanistan-by-staying



A Dumb War

Alan Grayson, Truthout: ''To little fanfare, President Obama announced last week that he signed an agreement to extend the US military occupation of Afghanistan for twelve more years. No one noted the irony of this, since under our Constitution, President Obama can be president for no more than another four and a half years.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9041-a-dumb-war

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Take Responsibility for Civilian Deaths, Group Tells NATO
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/14-0



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