It never fails. The warmongers invent a narrative to sell an unpopular war at home and the mainstream media laps it up -- however many times it's been duped in the past. So Marjah, a hamlet with one mosque and a few buildings, becomes a city of 80,000 harbouring hundreds of Taliban fighters. |
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Which director said: "This movie reflects that we are living through war. There are boots on the ground, troops who I personally believe were sent there under false pretenses, so I hope this will be part of opening our eyes." |
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"My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of [fill in name of soldier killed]," said [fill in name of warmongering politician].
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Joe Glenton has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment for refusing to return to fight the war in Afghanistan he believes is unjustified and senseless. |
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Gordon Brown was the paymaster for the Iraq War, to the tune of $8.5bn. He bears the same responsibility as Tony Blair for a war that cost £8.5 billion. |
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The assault on Marja was to be the turning point of the Afghan War, with US-led forces deploying many thousands of troops to drive the Taliban from a city of 80,000. The media dutifully jumped into line with the warmongers' propaganda. Only one problem: Marja does not exist, not as city, not even as a town. |
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For the British establishment Muslims are contemptible creatures, devalued humans. Do they expect me to turn the other cheek? asks Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. |
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Under the Geneva Conventions, it is a war crime to execute a captive. Yet in Kunar province in Afghanistan on December 26, US-led forces or mercenaries cold-bloodedly executed nine handcuffed prisoners aged 11-18. |
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US officials talk about nation-building in Afghanistan. But what they neglect to say is that the US has actually done just the opposite: it has fostered the destruction of much of that nation and now poses a clear and imminent danger to what remains. |
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In February 2003, former Labour Party leader Michael Foot, who has died aged 96, threatened to lead a mass trespass of Hyde Park when Tony Blair's government tried to ban its use for Stop the War's demonstration against the Iraq war. The government capitulated and February 15 saw the biggest political demonstration in British history. |
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"Channel 4 Dispatches touched rock bottom with the most risible piece of half-baked Islamophobia I can recall," says Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan. |
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Attempts to drive British Muslims out of normal political activity, and the refusal to confront anti-Muslim hatred, can only ratchet up the danger and threaten us all, writes Seumas Milne.
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