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Another U.S. Atrocity in Afghanistan

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:53:02 +0000

By DAVE LINDORFF - March 15, 2010 Another night-time raid on a housing compound in Afghanistan. Another bunch of innocent Afghans killed. Another round of lies by the US-led forces of the so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Only this time, among the dead are two pregnant mothers and a teenage girl. read more

US-NATO "strategic concept": Global warfare

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:17:00 +0000

On March 12, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived in Warsaw to participate in the NATO’s New Strategic Concept – Global, Transatlantic and Regional Challenges and Tasks Ahead conference. His address reiterated the now standard demand that NATO combine Article 5 so-called collective defense for its members – in Poland’s case that can only be a reference to Russia – with expeditionary deployments outside NATO’s self-defined area of responsibility as exemplified by recent wars and other armed missions in the Balkans, Afghanistan, the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and the Darfur region of Sudan.

Defense Department Official Established Network of Private Contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to Help Track and Kill Suspected Militants

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:10:15 +0000

Via: New York Times: Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from [...]

U.S. “Bunker-Buster” Bombs On Way To Diego Garcia?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:44:03 +0000

Via: Herald Scotland: Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to [...]

Soldiers back from Afghanistan march in Newark

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:55:00 +0000

what should we do, support or protest?

Joe Glenton Day of Action 27 March

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:15:00 +0000

"Stop the War has called a protest on Saturday 27 March at the prison where Lance Corporal Joe Glenton is being held after being court martialled and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for refusing to fight in Afghanistan."

Afghanistan: NATO-Lüge aufgedeckt

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:14:00 +0000

GIs erschiessen fünf Menschen: Schwangere Frauen, Mütter und 2 Regierungsbeamte ... Blutiges Ende einer Feier in Afghanistan: Bewaffnete US-Amerikaner stürmten in dem Ort Khataba in der ostafghanischen Provinz Paktia ein Haus und erschossen fünf Menschen: Zwei schwangere Frauen, Mütter von zusammen 15 Kindern, eine Achtzehnjährige und zwei Regierungsbeamte, die sich unter den Gästen befanden. Das geschah am 12. Februar. Etwa 25 Menschen hatten sich an diesem Abend versammelt, um die Namensgebung eines neugeborenen Jungen zu feiern. Obwohl zahlreiche Überlebende die Vorgänge in allen Einzelheiten schilderten, verbreitete die NATO zunächst routinemäßig ein von Lügen strotzendes Kommunique. »Mehrere Aufständische verwickelten die gemeinsame – aus US-Amerikanern und Afghanen bestehende – Einsatzgruppe in ein Feuergefecht und wurden getötet«, hieß es damals in einer Presseerklärung der Besatzer.

Survivors of family killed in Afghanistan raid threaten suicide attacks

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:59:47 +0000

The Times: A family whose members were killed in a botched night raid in eastern Afghanistan have rejected “blood money” from the Government and vowed to carry out suicide attacks unless the perpetrators are brought to justice. Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a policeman and his brother were shot dead on February 12 by unidentified gunmen. Eight men were arrested in the raid on the village of Khataba in Paktia province. They have all been released.

Nato ‘covered up’ botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:07:27 +0000

The Times: A night raid carried out by US and Afghan gunmen led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity which Nato then tried to cover up, survivors have told The Times. In a statement after the raid titled “Joint force operating in Gardez makes gruesome discovery”, Nato claimed that the force had found the women’s bodies “tied up, gagged and killed” in a room.

India: Act Now: Tell Maersk to stop anti-union violence on Mumbai ports; send e-mail protests

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

LabourStart headline - Source: ITF

Afghanistan’s Kandahar hit by suicide bombers, 30 dead

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:35:06 +0000

BBC News: At least 30 people have been killed and 46 wounded in four suicide bombings in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, hospital officials say. The first blast happened at about 2000 (1530 GMT). Officials said the biggest attack was aimed at the city's main prison. The Taliban said they carried out the bombings as a "message" to Nato.

Guyana: Stop union-busting – respect workers rights

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

LabourStart headline - Source: The West Indian News

WaPo: Unemployment rate for young veterans hits 21.1 percent

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The unemployment rate last year for young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle that combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war.

Sydney protest for Tamil rights and free West Papua

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:27:55 +0000

Hope and Terror in the land of the Jumma

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:07:15 +0000

An eerie calm has returned to the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, where, just two weeks ago , the military opened fire on the Indigenous Jumma People, killing 6 and injuring more than two dozen men, women and children. Sadly, painfully, it is not the first time the peaceful Jumma were put through such [...]

Bangladesh: 21 Workers Die in a Fire at H&M Factory

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

LabourStart headline - Source: ILRF