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Pentagon source: strike killed 30 Afghan civilians
The probe found that the strikes against a "suspected Taliban compound" in the western province of Herat killed about 30 civilians - not the five to seven the U.S. originally acknowledged, according to... ...
Obama Vows To Escalate Occupation of Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.or g/archive/2008/07/15/10365 / ...
Hunkering Down in Afghanistan with Field-Marshall Obama
By Mike Whitney By every objective standard, conditions are worse for the Afghan people than they were before the invasion in 2001. The economy is in shambles, unemployment is soaring, reconstruction... ...
US air attack kills seven civilians: Governor
An Afghan governor Monday said at least seven civilians have been killed in air strikes by the coalition troops against Taliban in a western Afghan province. http://tinyurl. com/48fksn Madness in Afghanistan... ...
What About Afghanistan?
Writing for Common Dreams, Robert Naiman asks, "What about Afghanistan? A majority of the US population and the Congress - like the majority of Iraqis and Iraqi parliamentarians - want the US to withdraw... ...
Afghanistan: counterinsurgency or colonialism?
In practice, I found, it looks and sounds a lot more like old-fashioned colonialism. In the tents of Naray, I had the distinct feeling that I had strolled into Uttar Pradesh at some point after 1858, in... ...
Military spending has soared in recent years
The Terrible Plight of Afghan Children The U.S. military alone spends $100 million a day fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan while the total spending by all donors is only $7 million a day, aid... ...
Immigration's Impact on Border Wildlands
Some see the land - especially the sensitive ecosystems of the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona, where the majority of illegal immigrants have been crossing since the mid-1990s - as another loser in... ...