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Amid flooding, CIA resumes Pakistan drone campaign
MSNBC 08/23/10 After a little-noticed, weeks long disruption caused by the monsoons that devastated Pakistan, the CIA in recent days has picked up the pace of its missile strikes against Islamic militants... ...
What they do in our name
Future of Freedom Foundation by Sheldon Richman 08/10/10 Thanks to Wikileaks and heroic leakers inside the military, we now know the U.S. government has killed many more innocent Afghan civilians than... ...
Study ties civilian deaths to attacks on US forces
MSNBC 08/02/10 Each time U.S. or NATO forces accidentally kill Afghan civilians, insurgents and their sympathizers typically retaliate with six additional assaults on foreign forces over the next six... ...
WikiGate: How the Wikileaks are changing Afghan hearts and minds
http://www.lewrockwell.com /margolis/margolis198.html -------- How the Wikileaks are changing Afghan hearts and minds The New Republic by Anand Gopal 08/02/10 For many Afghans, the release of thousands... ...
High Iraq deaths cast doubt on US stability talk
LaCrosse Tribune 08/01/10 While concern is rising in the U.S. about the war in Afghanistan, the Americans are anxious to show evidence of progress in their other conflict — Iraq. New Iraqi government... ...
Leaked Files Indicate U.S. Pays Afghan Media to run Friendly Stories
By John Cook Buried among the 92,000 classified documents released Sunday by WikiLeaks is some intriguing evidence that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble... ...
Obama's Afghan War in Perspective
By Gary Leupp Practically everyone now understands that the war in Afghanistan is going very badly. This is not because the Taliban and other "insurgent" forces are strong and their foreign foes weak.... ...
Attack on Iran Would be 'Start of Long War'
Study By Daniel Tencer Furthermore, the report suggested that any Israeli strike on Iran would cause a large number of civilian casualties because the Israeli strike would likely not be limited to... ...
Saving Face in Unwinnable War
By Eric Margolis Sinking in debt and no closer to victory, heads may roll as the U.S. and NATO wrap up their pointless Afghan adventure. http://www.inf ormationclearinghouse.info /article25917.htm US... ...
The Unknown Afghan Body Count
By James Denselow The precise compilation of western casualties contrasts with almost criminal neglect in tracking the numbers of Afghan civilians killed since 2001. If Afghanistan is the "good war"... ...