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May 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: This is the end of the second week since Osama bin Laden's death. During those two weeks, we’ve wasted four more American lives and another 4 billion USD, continuing a war strategy that contributed little to nothing to bin Laden’s death and that makes no sense now that al Qaeda no longer resides in Afghanistan. The vast majority of Americans believe that this is the right time to bring the troops home, and they’re right. Full news...
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May 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Talk Radio News Service: 56 percent of likely voters want to see the U.S. remove troops from Afghanistan as soon as next year, according to a new Rasmussen poll. The numbers reflect the highest level of opposition to date against the ongoing military presence. 35 percent of those polled said that they would like to see American troops pulled out immediately... Full news...
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May 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: On 1 May, the US president addressed the nation, announcing a military victory – 1 May 2003, that is, when President George W Bush, in his form-fitting flight suit, strode onto the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln. Under the banner announcing “Mission Accomplished”, he declared that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Full news...
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April 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: German peace and church groups as well as labor unions have planned numerous anti-war campaigns over the Easter holidays in major German cities and towns, including Berlin, Dortmund, Bremen Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Duesseldorf and Stuttgart. German peace and church groups as well as labor unions have planned numerous anti-war campaigns over the Easter holidays in major German cities and towns... Full news...
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March 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NPR: After watching the protests that led to the downfall of regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, Afghan youth are expressing revolutionary sentiments. “I am counting seconds for the day when 20 of my friends call me and ask me to go out on the streets to protest against the notoriously corrupt government of [Afghan President Hamid Karzai] and the violence of the Taliban,” says 19-year-old university student Ahmad Seyar. Full news...
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March 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
War Is A Crime.org: In two jam-packed appearances this weekend, Afghan feminist leader Malalai Joya reached at least 1500 people with her denunciations of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. She spoke with Professor Noam Chomsky to 1200 people at Harvard’s Memorial Church Friday night and to 300 in Jamaica Plain this afternoon. Full news...
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March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters UK: Most Britons are unclear about what the government’s goals are in Afghanistan and only one in four believe the current strategy is working well, a poll published on Wednesday on behalf of leading aid groups showed. The survey comes only a day after a separate poll found that just one in three Britons were in favour of a decision to take military action in Libya. Full news...
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March 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Boston Globe Blog: Malalai Joya is a 32-year-old Afghan woman named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Foreign Policy Magazine listed her on its annual list of Top 100 Global Thinkers, and last week The Guardian listed her among the “Top 100 women: activists and campaigners” in the world. So why is the U.S. State Department refusing to let Ms. Joya visit our country? Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: To watch a 2003 video of Malalai Joya, then in her early 20s, making a speech is to witness phenomenal courage and the power of speaking out. Joya, now 32, was an elected delegate to the Loya Jirga (an assembly to debate the proposed Afghan constitution) when she stood up and publicly criticised the room full of men. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Hundreds of Afghans held a massive protest against the United States in the downtown area of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Sunday, demanding an end of the U.S. role in Afghanistan.“The involvement of the US government in Afghanistan, that has a long history of cruelty, has not improved conditions in the country, but increased corruption, poverty, murders, poppy cultivation and trafficking,” says the pamphlet handed out by the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan, the organizer of the protests. Full news...
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March 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Fresh from the reported killing of more than 60 civilians, U.S. forces in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, killed nine boys gathering firewood on a mountainside. General Petraeus says he’s sorry. Too little, too late, general. Nine boys now lie among thousands of others who had a right to life independent of U.S. goals in Afghanistan, and “sorry” doesn’t cut it, especially from the general who's tripling the air war over Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Hundreds of Afghan protesters poured into the streets of the northeastern provincial capital Assad-Abad on March 2 over the death of nine civilians killed in a NATO air strike, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. NATO officially apologized on March 2 for what it called an “accident.” It said in a statement that "[the NATO-led] International Security Assistance Force apologizes... Full news...
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February 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Americans of all ideological persuasions are fed up with the Afghanistan War. We’re fed up with a 5.7 US$ billion-per-month military campaign that’s gone nowhere over the past 12 months. We’re fed up with being told we’ll have to do without vital public services because of the sorry state of our national finances, while at the same time our politicians are spending 2 billion USD a year to police a dusty Afghan town called Marjah. Full news...
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February 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New Statesman: As the US-led occupation of Afghanistan enters its tenth year, casualties have risen among Afghan civilians and NATO forces alike, making the last 12 months the bloodiest of the conflict to date. US and British forces are engaged in a dirty war in Afghanistan, using aerial bombing, drone attacks, torture prisons and corporate mercenaries against the Afghan people, all of which are fuelling further insecurity and fostering human rights abuse. Full news...
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January 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NCRI: A large number of Afghans took to the streets of Herat on Saturday to protest against the Iranian regime. The protest happened across from the regime’s consulate in Herat, with the protestors chanting, “death to Ahmadinejad” and “death to Khamenei,” referring to the mullahs’ President and Supreme Leader, respectively. Full news...
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January 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: More than 500 people have protested in Herat against Iran’s weeks-long blockage of hundreds of fuel tankers seeking to enter Afghanistan, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. Protesters told RFE/RL that Iran’s actions have created painful fuel shortages at a time of high demand during winter. Full news...
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January 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of angry Afghans stoned the Iranian embassy in Kabul on Thursday in protest against the blockade of fuel tankers in the neighbouring country. Stones and addled eggs were hurled at the embassy. The protesters chanted full-throated slogans against country and torched posters of Iranian President Ahmadinejad and spiritual leader Ayatollah Syed Ali Khomeini. Full news...
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December 30, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNNN: More than six in ten Americans oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, according to a new national poll. "The war has not always been unpopular - back in March, when a majority thought that the war was going well, the country was evenly divided. But by September, the number who said that things were going well for the U.S. in Afghanistan had dropped to 44 percent, and opposition to the war had grown to 58 percent," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. Full news...
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December 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Eleven people including three policemen and eight demostrators were injured as they clashed in eastern Paktia province on Saturday, provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Safi said. “Eight demonstrators and three police sustained injuries as police opened fire to disperse the demonstrators but the demonstrators resisted and hurled stones on police in provincial capital Gardez city today,” Safi told Xinhua. Full news...
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December 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Several hundred demonstrators, some holding photographs of victims of three decades of war, shouted for justice and peace .... In recognition of International Human Rights Day, about 300 people participated in a demonstration in the capital, Kabul, organized by the Social Association of Afghan Justice Seekers. Full news...
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November 28, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Green Left Weekly: Tough talk by the warmongers at the November 20-21 NATO conference in Lisbon, Portugal, obscured the growing opposition in the US and Europe to the nine-year occupation of Afghanistan. Ten thousand people took to the streets of London on November 20 to protest the war. Angry at the British government’s recent cuts to services and pensions, many carried “Cut war not welfare” placards. Full news...
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November 20, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Thousands of protesters have marched through London against the war in Afghanistan as as Nato leaders agreed a strategy to withdraw their troops from the country. The demonstration, which organisers said was 10,000-strong, came as the prime minister, David Cameron, said the withdrawal of British combat troops from Afghanistan by 2015 was a “firm deadline” that would be met. Full news...
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November 18, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: More Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan than support it, a new poll showed Thursday, the latest sign of waning public backing for the US-led mission. The Quinnipiac University poll also found a large majority of Americans want to see an end to the ban on gays serving openly in the military, including voters with a family member in uniform. Full news...
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November 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Age: THE plight of women in Afghanistan is no excuse for Western “occupation” of the country, a leading Afghan opponent of the war and former MP has declared. Malalai Joya - the youngest woman elected to the Afghanistan Parliament, in 2004, who then faced death threats for her outspoken criticism of tribal warlords - said the image of Afghan women was being unfairly used to justify the foreign presence. Full news...
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November 4, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Rupee News: In Afghanistan ruling politicians have publicly called Malalai Joya a”prostitute,” “infidel,” “traitor” and “communist.” But overseas, the tiny 31-year-old political activist and formerschool teacher has been hailed as “the bravest woman in Afghanistan”and compared to Burma’s jailed democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Full news...
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October 19, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of northern Baghlan province have accused tribal militias, hired by government, of forcefully taking usher from them. Nearly 100 residents from different districts on Sunday gathered in front of provincial police headquarters in the capital city, Pul-i-Khumri, asking police to help them against the militias. One of the residents, Juma Khan, 50, said militias forcefully took money from residents in Khwaja Khan village. Full news...
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October 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Straight Goods News: Those who feel it is good news that the Afghanistan government is secretly negotiating with the Taliban won't get any reassurance from Malalai Joya. A year after her last visit to Canada, the outspoken former member of Afghanistan's parliament risks her life every day by speaking out against the three threats to her people: warlords, the Taliban and outside occupiers. Full news...
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October 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Calgary Herald: An outspoken critic of NATO and the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, as well as that country's youngest woman elected to parliament, was in Calgary on the weekend, appealing for Canadians to open their minds and support democracy in the war-torn nation. Malalai Joya was invited to speak at the University of Calgary on Sunday by the Afghan Canadian Students’ Association. Full news...
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October 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Washington Square News: Peace activists held an anti-war press conference at the CUNY Graduate Center yesterday, marking the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-NATO invasion of Afghanistan. The group of veterans, community groups and global justice organizations said U.S. military presence in Afghanistan did not benefit anyone. Full news...
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September 30, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global New: Most Canadians support Ottawa’s plan to pull out of Afghanistan next year, according to an exclusive poll for Global News. Sixty-one per cent of respondents to the TV network’s “Canada’s Pulse” poll say all Canadian troops need to come home, while 28 per cent think Canada should leave some troops behind to train Afghan police and soldiers. Just 11 per cent want to extend the mission. Full news...
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