South Asia
Afghan war fuels opium boom
from greenleft, 25 March 2010: "It was common during the opening of the Iraq war to see slogans proclaiming “No blood for oil!” The cover story for the war — Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s links with Al Qaeda and his weapons of mass destruction — were obvious mass deceptions, hiding a far less palatable imperial agenda. The truth was that Iraq was a major producer of oil and, in our age, oil is the most strategic resource of all... Why then, are there no slogans saying “No blood for opium”?" more
Afghanistan: Embracing Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is no method at all
from rawa, 27 January 2010: "One thing that remains consistent over the last 30 years in observing America's participation in Afghanistan is that mistakes and errors of judgment, no matter how egregious or self-defeating, never seem to get corrected. In fact, in its effort to rationalize a growing culture of war-making from Vietnam to Afghanistan, America has come around to embracing the insanity of the fictional Colonel Kurtz..." more
Newswires: South Asia
Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Sri Lanka, Tamil, India, Pakistan, Delhi, Islamabad, Karachi, Mumbai, Bangladesh, Dhaka... more
Newswires: Afghanistan
Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Afghanistan, Karzai, Hamid, Taliban, RAWA, khost, miran, shah, kabul, haqqani... more
Newswires: NATO
Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered to include the keywords: NATO, Afghanistan... more
Mass deportations, mass resistance: public forum, 7 November 2009
from noborders, 2 November 2009: "A public forum to build resistance against mass deportations organised by Stop Deportation. Saturday, 7th November 2009, 12-5pm
@ the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London -- Mass deportation flights are a new and urgent challenge to all those working for the right to freedom of movement for all. Many deportees have tried to stop or escape from these flights, some even self-harming in desperation. Outside, protests and actions are being organised in the UK, Europe and the destination countries. More are needed! more
Why the Taliban has tripled in size in the last three years: rethinking the Afghan insurgency
from mostly water, 15 October 2009: "A critical debate is underway to determine whether or not the US will send up to forty thousand more troops to Afghanistan. The debate is said to include a wide-range of opinion, but even at the top political and military levels, there isn’t profound understanding of insurgencies in general or the particular dynamics of the Afghan one..." more
Afghanistan's first oil and gas licensing round
from imc-uk, 9 September 2009: "via oilbarrel.com - If evidence were ever needed as to the resilience of oil companies and their willingness to do business in some of world’s most hostile environments then surely it would be worth drawing on the story of Afghanistan. The war-torn country is currently in the middle of its first licensing round but has reported brisk interest from international oil companies, both large and small..." more
Newswires: Sri Lanka
Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Sri Lanka, Tamil, LTTE... more
British defence secretary prepares escalation in Afghanistan
from wsws, 21 January 2009: In a speech to an international conference on January 15, Britain's defence secretary John Hutton delivered the UK government's sharpest public criticism of its European NATO allies as regards the US-led occupation of Afghanistan. Urging an increase in NATO troop deployment to the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan, Hutton accused his European counter-parts of expecting the US to do all the "heavy lifting" and said it was time for them to "step up to the plate." more
Making the world's poor pay: the economic crisis and the global south
from various sources, 25 November 2008: "Throughout its history, capitalism has functioned through geographical displacement of crisis – attempting to offload the worst impacts onto those outside the core. This article presents a short survey of what this crisis might mean for the Global South..." more
RINF: Space-based domestic spying
from RINF, 14 November 2008: "During Hurricane Ike, U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the first time flew the Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle in “support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s relief efforts,” the insider tech publication reported... The deployment of the robotic killing machines in the United States for “disaster management” is troubling to say the least and a harbinger of things to come. more
Under-reported Struggles #19
posted 12 November 2008: "In this month’s Underreported Struggles: 400,000 Guatemalans Reject Development Model, Philippines Indigenous People Unite for the Land, Riot Police Target Algonquin Blockade, Chagos Islanders Denied the Right of Return, and 17 other stories that you probably haven’t heard about..." more
Guantanamo guards regularly brutalize and force-feed hunger striker
from sumoud, 30 October 2008: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three years ago, the man known as Internment Serial Number 669 stopped eating. Ahmed Zaid Zuhair, a compact 43-year-old with 10 children in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, had been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 without charges and decided to join a mass hunger strike in protest. The U.S. military was determined not to let him succeed. Since then, according to court documents reviewed by The Associated Press, guards have struggled with him repeatedly, at least once using pepper spray, shackles and brute force to drag him to a restraint chair for his twice-daily dose of a liquid nutrition mix force-fed through his nose. more
Afghanistan: A war for empire - not a "good war" gone bad pt.2 - Seizing on September 11 to Launch an Imperial War
via mostly water, 25 October 2008: "the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 (and then of Iraq in March 2003) were conceived as opening salvos in a long-term "war on terror" whose actual, inter-connected goals included defeating anti-U.S. Islamic fundamentalist forces (including ideologically), overthrowing states not fully under U.S. control or fueling anti-U.S. Islamist movements, restructuring the entire Middle East and Central Asian regions, and seizing deeper control of key sources and shipment routes of strategic energy supplies..." more
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Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009
from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more
Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"
from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more


