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Once again the media is deferring to warmongering American and British politicians, this time hawking the public relations event known as Operation Moshtarak in Afghanistan. |
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"As president, I will provide $30 billion in assistance to Israel over the next decade." On the evidence of these videos, pigs will fly before Obama brings peace to the Middle East. |
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Another missile attack kills dozens of civilians but insists US commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, "We are here to protect the Afghan people. |
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 The latest BBC poll shows that 64% in Britain think the Afghan war is unwinnable. And, as this video shows, the troops know the war is senseless.
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The surge tactic has forced the enemy into retreat. As in Falluja in 2004, the US is adept at "making a wilderness and calling it peace", says Simon Jenkins. |
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All Dutch troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of the year, following the collapse of the government. It's time for Gordon Brown to follow suit. |
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Paul Hardcastle's 19, updated for Afghanistan, is sadly apt, with 19-year-old Sean Dawson from Manchester one of 12 UK soldiers killed so far in February. |
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Rent-a-Taliban and roll in our "government in a box", says Gen.Stanley McChrystal, US commander in Afghanistan. He thinks a viable Afghan government can be requisitioned like meals-ready-to-eat for his troops. |
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The Obama administration, like the Bush White House before it, is seeking to beautify its military endeavors through facelifts and marketing appeals. Will it work? |
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State-sponsored terrorism is fine when it's Israel. Consider the response if Iranian killers had had used forged or stolen passports of citizens of four European states, including Britain, to carry out an assassination. |
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Two million marched on 15 February 2003 against the Iraq war. The war went ahead and a million people were slaughtered. Did it achieve anything |
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Not all Israeli soldiers celebrate the bombing one of the most crowded places on earth, striking civilian targets such as homes, schools and mosques, leaving behind 1,300 dead. |
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Human rights lawyers Phil Shiner and Clive Stafford-Smith say torture and abuse by UK soldiers and security services is comparable to what the US has done in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Base, and government service have colluded at the highest level. |
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