At least nineteen civilians have been killed so far in the US/NATO offensive in Marjah, Democracy Now reports. DN interviewed Wall Street Journal reporter Anand Gopal, who says the assault in Marjah is perceived as a “show of force” by coalition forces that will change little. Gopal says it’s very difficult for reporters to get to Marjah; almost all the reporters who are there are embedded reporters, so they’re only seeing one side of the story; and we won’t know for some time if there are many more cases of civilian deaths.
February 16th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
Pakistan has told the US it wants a central role in resolving the Afghan war and has offered to mediate with Taliban factions, the New York Times reports. So far, the US has been more eager to push Pakistan to fight Taliban than to negotiate with them, and has not endorsed Pakistan’s new approach. One strand of thinking within the Obama administration calls for allowing the Pakistanis to keep the Haqqanis as part of Pakistan’s sphere of influence in southern Afghanistan, but only if Pakistan forces the Haqqanis to break with Al Qaeda and to push militants out of its areas, a US official said.
February 11th, 2010 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
A group of ex-Taliban officials have prepared a “road map” to promote a political settlement between the Taliban and the Karzai government, Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service. The first step would be an agreement between Karzai and the Taliban about no killing of doctors and no damage to roads by the Taliban, in return for no night raids and detention by the United States.
February 6th, 2010 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
The Environment of Iraq Responsibility of USA in Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium Abstract: For two decades, the administrations of the United States of America and the United Kingdom have been waging continuous wars on Iraq to occupy this oil rich country. The armed forces of those two countries attacked civilians with different kinds of [...]
February 6th, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
This should now get interesting with Gulf War Veterans 90-91 and to present and their health effects that our own government has ignored for 19 years Iraq to sue US, Britain over depleted uranium bombs Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against Britain and the US over their use of depleted uranium [...]
February 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Health | Read More »
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