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  • August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The real story behind Time’s Afghan woman cover: American complicity
    NiemanWatchdog: The repressive and misogynistic forces the picture depicts are the very ones that were bolstered by U.S. policy in the early 1980s, and again now. The head of Jobs for Afghans proposes an answer to 'warlordism' and its medieval attitude toward women. There has been much discussion, as well as misunderstanding, of the Time magazine cover photo of the Afghan woman who had her nose cut off by the Taliban.      Full news...

  • August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan Money Probe Hits Close to the President
    The Wall Street Journal: When U.S.-trained agents from an anticorruption task force raided the headquarters of the nation's largest "hawala" money-transfer business, they caught many people by surprise: the company's politically connected executives, the nation's top law-enforcement officer, even Afghan President Hamid Karzai.      Full news...

  • August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Clerics Seek Return to Strict Islamic Law
    Reuters: Afghanistan's largest gathering of clerics, who met to discuss reconciliation with the Taliban, has called for the revival of strict Islamic law as the country seeks ways to win militants away from a growing insurgency. About 350 of the Islamic clerics, or ulema, met for three days this week, the meeting ending with a declaration calling on President Hamid Karzai to enact sharia, or Islamic law...      Full news...

  • August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan villages protest over Nato “civilian killings”
    BBC News: Villagers have held a protest over the deaths of three brothers allegedly killed in a raid by Nato-led forces in the eastern Afghan province of Wardak. They said those killed overnight in Sayed Abad district were innocent. Nato rejected the allegation, saying it had killed several suspected insurgents and detained a local Taliban commander.      Full news...

  • August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned
    The Nation: I know Bibi Aisha, the young Afghan woman pictured on the August 9 cover of Time, and I rejoice that her mutilated nose and ears are going to be surgically repaired. But the logic of those who use Aisha's story to convince us that the US military must stay in Afghanistan escapes me. Even Aisha has already left for America.      Full news...

  • August 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan Has A £17-Billion Gold Mine, 20+ Other Minerals
    Times News World: Where Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden might have hid lie a trillion-dollar treasure chest of gold, copper, cobalt and more than twenty other precious minerals. US experts expressed that this startling discovery could dramatically turn the financial tables of the American-created, nine-year-old battlefield.      Full news...

  • August 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    WikiLeak exposes US-NATO atrocities
    Pakistan Observer: While US private Bradley Manning under interrogation may be made into an scapegoat, the question is whether it was he who transferred over 92000 documents on to his computer and then passed it on to WikiLeak or was it Julian Assange who with the help of insiders in Pentagon managed to gain access to classified archives stored in a safe house?      Full news...

  • August 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The Deaths And Maiming Of Children
    The Atlantic: As we fight an unwinnable war in an ungovernable country, the enemy simply ratchets up the evil by targeting more and more innocent civilians, especially women and children. HuffPo's headline misleadingly suggests that US policy is behind the yearly increase in civilian fatalities but the UN report actually notes that casualties caused by the US and UK fell by 30 percent and by 64 percent in aerial bombing in one year, which strikes me as a real achievement for McChrystal.      Full news...

  • August 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan civilian deaths up 31% this year, says United Nations
    The Guardian: The Taliban's increasing use of homemade bombs and political assassinations has been responsible for a 31% increase in the number of civilians who have been killed or injured in fighting in Afghanistan this year, the United Nations said today. UN human rights workers recorded 1,271 civilians deaths over the period and 1,997 injuries.      Full news...

  • August 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    “Liberating” the Women of Afghanistan
    Dissident Voice: Time magazine must be experiencing a severe case of amnesia, judging by the cover of this week’s issue which asks, “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan .” At best, this effort by Time is irresponsible slick journalism; at worst, it is one of the most blatant pieces of pro-war propaganda seen in years.      Full news...

  • August 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan schools: Safe havens?
    CBC News: A bomb is found tucked into a school typewriter. Insurgents dressed in military uniforms attack an education chief. School guards are tied up while the building is bombed to smithereens. Teachers and students at an all-girls high school are poisoned through the drinking water. Those are just a few of the hundreds of incidents involving schools that are detailed in the U.S. military logs from Afghanistan released by WikiLeaks in late July.      Full news...

  • August 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Voting cards only for those who bribe policemen
    PAN: A voting card distribution centre in the heart of Kabul has been favouring certain parliamentary election candidates, Pajhwok has reliably learnt. The centre in the Chaman-i-Hozori neighbourhood remains open even on Fridays for students and other people who could not receive their cards on official working days.      Full news...

  • August 8, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Taliban Hang a 47-year Old Woman
    PAN (Translated by RAWA): Armed Taliban hung a 47-year old woman in the Qaadis District of Badghis Province. This was reported to PAN by Mullah Muhammad Yousuf, one of the local commanders of the Taliban in the Qaadis Khordak area of Badghis Province, this morning (August 8th). He said that the woman named Baidi Sanam, resident of the Qaadis Khordak in Qaadis District, was hung for the crime of getting pregnant.      Full news...

  • August 8, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Between the Bomb and the Burqa
    t r u t h o u t : Her voice was thick with passion as she argued for ending violence against fellow Afghan women, but the men didn't listen. Instead they hurled insults at her; they called her a prostitute and a traitor to her religion. The stubborn men's insults were abusive and frustrating, but it had been worse for other women in her position. They were threatened and hunted down. Some of them were killed.      Full news...

  • August 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Foreign fighters support Taliban in Afghanistan
    Indo-Asian News Service: About 40 foreign fighters have been supporting Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, police said on Saturday. They have been fighting under Uzbek extremist commander Tahir Yaldash, provincial deputy police chief Abdul Rahman Haqtash said, while showing three foreign fightersto the media.      Full news...

  • August 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The Afghan anti-war movement grows
    Rabble.ca: Coverage of Afghanistan's burgeoning anti-war movement is sadly quite scarce, though we have seen in this space some of the more interesting reporting (see here for example). Lately, however, there have been developments which shed some interesting light on the (mostly) non-violent Afghan anti-war movement. The Afghanistan Solidarity Party (ASP) has a platform dedicated to "women's rights, democracy, and secular society, a disarming of the country, and freedom of the press," according to a spokesperson interviewed by Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls.      Full news...

  • August 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Don’t exploit women to justify war, says Afghan activist
    RFI: The war in Afghanistan is not going well for the US and its allies, as the recent WikiLeaks revelations have shown. So should US President Barack Obama keep his commitment to start withdrawal next year? Some American media are asking if that means leaving Afghan women to the mercies of the Taliban. One Afghan woman activist tells RFI that she is suspicious of such claims.      Full news...

  • August 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    NATO Forces in Afghanistan Can’t Deny They Killed Civilians in Sangin Anymore
    HuffingtonPost.com: Exclusive, on-the-ground interviews obtained by Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project confirm what NATO forces repeatedly denied: U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan killed dozens of people in the Sangin District of Helmand Province on July 23. Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office first acknowledged the incident when they condemned the killings on July 26.      Full news...

  • August 5, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Whose Hands? Whose Blood?
    The Nation: Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan War document dump at that site. "Mr. Assange," Mullen commented, "can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."      Full news...

  • August 5, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    28 Afghan civilians killed in US airstrike
    The News: Dozens of civilians have been killed and several others injured in Afghanistan after US warplanes bombarded the country's east, according to witnesses. The American forces launched two airstrikes in Nangarhar province on Thursday morning, witnesses said. One of the attacks left at least 30 people dead and injured. The other strike, which hit a funeral procession in a separate area, killed 28 civilians including two children.      Full news...

  • August 5, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The Afghan girl is back
    The Dawn Blog: While Sharbat Gul’s eyes powerfully transfixed the world from the cover of National Geographic in 1985, Aisha’s ordeal depicted on the cover of Time this week fixates our attention on where her nose would be. The metaphoric pain in the eyes has given way to the figurative – in this case, the disfigurative.      Full news...

  • August 4, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Selling the big lie
    SocialistWorker.org: AS MORE revelations about the brutality and barbarism of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan emerge, the Obama administration and the Pentagon are countering the truth with more lies--and a shameful public relations offensive aimed at passing off endless war as “liberation.” Meanwhile, the voices of ordinary Afghans--and the toll of the U.S. war on their lives--are being ignored by politicians and the media alike.      Full news...

  • August 4, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    President Obama sinks in polls over Afghanistan war policies
    Daily News Washington Bureau: Americans rank President Obama's handling of the Afghan war even lower than his stewardship of the economy, new poll says. Only 36% backed Obama's war policies, down from 48% in February, compared with his 39% rating on the economy, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll released Tuesday.      Full news...

  • August 2, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Car Bomber Fails to Reach Afghan Governor, but Kills Six Children at Play
    The New York Times: The governor, Haji Ahmadullah Nazak, survived the third attempt by a suicide bomber to kill him in recent months, among eight assassination attempts in all. The children, three boys and three girls 6 to 10 years old who had been collecting firewood by the roadside, were dismembered and burned nearly beyond recognition by the blast. They were from three families in the village.      Full news...

  • August 1, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Campaigners try to force MoD to court over Afghan killings
    The Guardian: The prospect of a judicial review into previously covered-up civilian shootings in Afghanistan has opened up after human rights campaigners launched an attempt to take the Ministry of Defence to court. This follows the disclosure in the Guardian that a series of unusual civilian shootings involving two British army units, are documented in last week's WikiLeaks publication of thousands of leaked US military files.      Full news...

  • August 1, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Abuse of women on the rise since start of war, claim critics
    France24: US media reports are warning that the plight of Afghan women will worsen at the hands of the Taliban after foreign troops withdraw but critics of the occupation say brutalities against women have actually risen under the US occupation since 2001. The provocative photo showing the mutilated face of 18-year-old Aisha on this week’s TIME magazine cover with the headline “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan” illustrates the current plight of Afghan women at the hands of the Taliban.      Full news...

  • August 1, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghans protest civilian deaths, American presence and NATO bombardments
    The Washington Post: Afghans marched through the streets of Kabul on Sunday morning chanting anti-American slogans and denouncing NATO bombardments and the American presence in Afghanistan. Carrying banners that described America as the "guardian and master of [the] ruling Mafia in Afghanistan," and displaying images of burned and bandaged children      Full news...



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