In the coming election campaign in Britain, the candidates will refer to this war only to laud "our boys". The candidates are almost identical political mummies, shrouded in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. As Blair demonstrated a mite too eagerly, the British elite love America because America allows them to barrack and bomb the natives and call themselves "partners". |
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However much the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, all three main parties contesting the upcoming general election are united in supporting the continuation and escalation of a war that cannot be won and which has no purpose outside of saving the face of those who took us into it in the first place.
Stop the War has called an Afghanistan day of action on Saturday 27 March and local Stop the War groups across the country will be on the streets campaigning to make the voice of the anti-war majority heard.
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Lewis Carroll's ironically opium-inspired tale of a rational person caught up inside
a mad world with its own bizarre but consistent internal (il)logic has now
surpassed Vietnam as the best paradigm to understand the war in Afghanistan. |
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Obama and Brown say the "exit strategy" for Afghanistan is the "rapid increase in numbers ... quality and effectiveness" of the Afghan army and police so that as they are able to "stand up" and take responsibility for the country's security, enabling the progressive withdrawal of NATO troops. The reality would be laughable, but it's no joke for the many Afghans and NATO soldiers dying for this hopeless strategy. |
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The escalation of the war in Afghanistan has eclipsed any mention of the war in Iraq. And this in spite of the fact that there are still 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. |
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Metropolitan Police Authority study criticises police handling of the G20 demonstration on 1 April 2009, which led to the death of Ian Tomlinson. |
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Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan, is receiving many messages of support. His wife Clare and mother Sue have sent a message of thanks. |
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To influence public opinion, to counter criticism, the United States came up with a second reason to invade Iraq —- to advance democracy and human rights. But you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis. |
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Survivors of a NATO night raid which killed seven family members have rejected US "compensation" payments of $2,000 per person killed and vowed to take revenge. |
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The US/UK invasion and occupation of Iraq has been catastrophic for the Iraqi people. But has it at least brought Iraqi women the liberation that George Bush and Tony Blair promised? |
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On 16 March 16 2003, 23-year-old American student Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer as she was trying peacefully to stop it demolishing a Paletinian home.
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The current surge against the Taliban is a last throw of the US dice, says Seumas Milne, and so far the signs are it isn't working. |
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