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Afghanistan occupation quagmire enters ninth year

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 30/09/2009 - 8:26am

By Hamish Chitts

October 7 marks eight years since the US-led coalition of imperialist powers and their client states invaded Afghanistan. Using the shock of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington as a smokescreen, the invasion of Afghanistan was the first major step in the US rulers’ “Global War on Terror” — the official name of a sustained campaign of Pentagon and CIA operations aimed at crushing all opposition in the Third World to US political and economic dominance.

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General David Petraeus' Favorite Mushroom--Inside the US Army's Human Terrain System

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 24/09/2009 - 11:19pm

General Petraeus--CENTCOM Commander and Washington, DC power player--believes that success in 21st century warfare depends on dominating the Human Terrain. Yet the US Army's HTS program has been beset by internal troubles that remain unresolved.

From June 2008 to August 2009 John Stanton, an independent journalist, authored 19 articles based on 45 sources detailing the trials and tribulations of the US Army's Human Terrain System (HTS). Originally published electronically, these pieces are now available in book form from Wiseman Publishing in the Netherlands.

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RAWA: 'for a democratic popular front' in Afghanistan

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 13/07/2009 - 6:58am

Interview with Zoya, a freedom fighter of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

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Catholic workers arrested blockading military's road to perdition

Submitted by fightfirewithwater09 on Thu, 09/07/2009 - 8:09pm

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Australian Catholic Workers, Jim Dowling and Ciaron O'Reilly were arrested this morning while blocking a major military access road to the Talisman Sabre 09 exercises being held at Shoalwater, central Queensland, Australia. Along with seven other anti war activists, the pair blockaded the road for over and hour and a half, and prevented more than a dozen US Army Jeep Troop carriers from entering the area.

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Afghanistan: Karzai builds warlord alliance

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 4:47pm

By Hamish Chitts

On August 20, Afghanistan will conduct its second presidential election under the US-led occupation. Current Afghan President Hamid Karzai is the clear frontrunner in the election, despite a December Gallup poll having found that only 10% of Afghans supported Karzai’s government. Karzai was handpicked by the US to head the Afghan government during the US-led invasion in late 2001.

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Blockade of depot supplying Talisman Sabre war games 2009

Submitted by fightfirewithwater09 on Mon, 06/07/2009 - 5:10pm

The gates of Australian Army at Rockhampton Airport were blocked this morning (July 6th. 09)
By a group of Christian anti-war activists. The depot is presently deploying U.S. and Australian military personnel to Talisman Saber 09 exercises taking place at nearby Shoalwater Bay.
Melbourne activists Rev. Simon Moyle (Baptist, Urban Seed, Insipiral), Jacob Bolton (Jahworks),

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WAR BLOCK - Martain Luther King Jnr House of Christian non-violence

Submitted by fightfirewithwater09 on Mon, 06/07/2009 - 10:58am

Today we are taking action against the war of our society. So we will be creating a roadblock at the army depot in rockhampton in the position of prostration.

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