Afghanistan
On Monday, August 16th Solidarity Rally for Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused by
the U.S. military of leaking the video called "Collateral Murder" to
the website WikiLeaks. The footage, made public in April 2010, shows US Army
Bravo Company 2-16 killing civilians in Bagdad in July 2007....
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e urge all individuals concerned with human rights to
sign this international petition to U.S. and Pakistani government officials, urging the immediate repatriation to Pakistan of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui....
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The media explosion following the publication of reports of some 90,000
classified cables between U.S. officials may accelerate the struggle to end the
imperialist occupation of Afghanistan....
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This is the moment to open a campaign to reawaken and mobilize a movement that
can end the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. The New York Times in the
U.S., the Guardian in Britain and Der Spiegel in Germany have published their
spins on 92,000 classified cables released by Wikileaks, cables with messages
between U.S. officials regarding the occupation of Afghanistan and the war
against the Afghan resistance....
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A look at Google News shows that tens of thousands of articles have reported
or commented on President Barack Obama's firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal
and his replacement by Gen. David Petraeus. This exposure of disarray and
demoralization within U.S. imperialism's military and civilian leadership
provides a welcome opportunity to accelerate efforts to force Washington and
its allies to withdraw and end the illegal U.S.-NATO war and occupation of
Afghanistan....
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A 22 year old U.S. soldier, Bradley Manning, has been arrested on suspicion of leaking classified combat video footage and secret documents to a whistle-blower website. SPC Manning, from Potomac, Maryland, is assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division and was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, located east of Baghdad. SPC Manning was arrested in Iraq and is currently being held in Kuwait pending further investigations. The WikiLeaks website posted a video which shows U.S. occupation forces shooting civilians on a Baghdad street during 2007....
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An imperialist politician was forced to resign May 31, not for a scandal, not even for getting caught lying to the public. This time German President Horst Köhler, a Christian Democrat (CDU), was forced to resign for giving everyone a moment of truth about Germany’s role in the war in Afghanistan....
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In the first action of its type during the current U.S. wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Berkeley, Calif., City Council on March 9 passed
a resolution entitled, “Universal and Unconditional Amnesty for Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan War Military Resisters and Veterans Who Acted In
Opposition to the War for Matters of Conscience,” according to a report
from Courage to Resist....
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The U.S.-NATO occupation of Afghanistan, begun in 2001 under President
George W. Bush’s leadership, continues nine years and hundreds of
billions of dollars later. Another episode typifying this criminal war recently
took place when German troops shot and killed a group of soldiers in the puppet
Afghan National Army who were delivering supplies to a German military
base....
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The Pentagon offensive against the Afghan city of Marjah was
public-relations media hype from the very first day. The sole purpose of the
offensive in Marjah was to convince the U.S. population and increasingly tepid
NATO allies that this imperialist war is winnable....
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The Bail Out the People Movement, meeting in New York on Feb. 24, voted to endorse and help to mobilize for the March 20 National March on Washington. The demonstration, called by the Answer Coalition, raises the slogans: U.S. out of Afghanistan and Iraq, Free Palestine, Reparations for Haiti, and Money for Healthcare, Jobs and Education. The endorsement, proposed by the International Action Center, had unanimous support and was followed by a concrete discussion of outreach, transportation and material to take to Washington....
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At least $100 billion will be spent this year in occupying Afghanistan.
Over three million jobs at $15 per hour could be created with this money.
Instead it’s being used to kill children thousands of miles away....
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In an effort to intimidate observers to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s trial Federal Marshals have instituted a new and unprecedented measure of copying photo identification and having names and addresses logged by court security officers before admission into the courtroom. This is especially threatening to the Pakistani immigrant community who is deeply concerned about the fate of their sister Aafia. An additional level of metal detectors is also posted outside the courtroom....
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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s trial for alleged attempted murder of FBI agents
and U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan entered its second week Jan. 25 in New York
City. Court officials forced all who wanted to attend the trial to twice go
through metal detectors and submit to thorough searches, give photo IDs and
sign their name. This intimidating process targeting noncitizens from the
Pakistani community is being challenged....
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Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s trail continues Monday, January 25 and EVERY
DAY at 9:00am. In an effort to intimidate Dr Siddiqui’s supporters court
officials have harassed observers by taking I.D. numbers before they entered
the courtroom....
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A bomb explosion in a Central Intelligence Agency camp in Khost Province of Afghanistan on Dec. 30 resulted in the deaths of seven experienced operatives, including the base commander. The attack struck a heavy blow against the U.S.-led occupation. It has changed the ground rules for the U.S. spy organization and evoked threats from U.S. President Barack Obama and CIA head Leon Panetta....
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Washington has already begun to send more troops to occupy Afghanistan
following President Barack Obama’s Dec. 1 speech at West Point. In
Afghanistan as in Iraq, the U.S. occupation will bring death to more Afghan
civilians and more U.S. troops. It threatens to open a civil war in Pakistan,
while the occupation of Iraq continues....
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As we raised several times before, the purpose of
this redeployment is not to fight the war on terror, but it is instead a
humiliating submission to U.S. pressure that risks the security of Korean
people, and involves it in a bloody, amoral, war of aggression and occupation
for the ultimate purpose of installing a pro-U.S. regime....
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Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to defeat the
resistance in Afghanistan, in a war that has lasted longer than World War II or
Vietnam? Afghanistan ranks among the poorest and most underdeveloped countries in the
world today. It has one of the shortest life expectancy rates, highest infant
mortality rates and lowest rates of literacy.The total U.S. military budget has more than doubled from the beginning of
this war in 2001 to the $680 billion budget signed by President Barack Obama
Oct. 28. The U.S. military budget today is larger than the military budgets of
the rest of the world combined. The U.S. arsenal has the most advanced
high-tech weapons....
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Following months of Pentagon pressure to send more U.S. troops to Central Asia, President Barack Obama announced the escalation to West Point Army officers and the country on Dec. 1. He said he had already issued orders to send some 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and that the transfer of troops was already underway....
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A White House Summit on Jobs is scheduled for Dec. 3. But instead of a jobs program, the president is sending tens of thousands of troops to war in Afghanistan at a cost of 50 billion more dollars on top of the fortune already wasted on war. Join us on Dec. 3 in a protest in front of the White House during the Jobs Summit to demand a real jobs program that can put the 30 million workers who are either unemployed or underemployed to work at jobs that pay a living wage....
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n Oct. 28, President Barack Obama signed the 2010 Defense Authorization
Act, the largest military budget in U.S. history....
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Stanley McChrystal has submitted his report asking for as many as
40,000 additional troops for the war on Afghanistan, arguing that they are
needed for a U.S. “victory.” President Barack Obama has said he
wants time for the administration to examine its strategy regarding
Afghanistan....
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With Defense Secretary Robert Gates expected to ask for 45,000 more U.S.
troops for Afghanistan, it looks like a U.S. escalation of that ugly war will
be the next big issue to be fought out in Congress, with most opposition coming
from Democrats. Will the administration rely on support from the most rightist
forces in Congress to continue to promote the war against the Afghans, sending
many thousands of U.S. youth and contract mercenaries to kill and die occupying
that Central Asian land?...
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s the decision day for escalating the U.S.-led occupation of Afghanistan
grows closer, a mass slaughter of Afghans in northern Kunduz province has put
the war on center stage worldwide and sharpened popular opposition within the
NATO countries, including inside the U.S. itself....
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ow that the documents recording the systematic torture of thousands of prisoners in secret U.S. prisons has been released to the world media in U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s report, the secret documents on the imprisonment and torture of Dr Aafia Siddiqui must also be released to the courts and to the world....
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More than 100,000 troops from the Pentagon and its NATO allies now occupy
Afghanistan. They are inflicting more deaths and terror on the Afghans. They
are also dying in record numbers now, nearly eight years after the initial U.S.
invasion....
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The conflict in Iran that opened up with the June presidential elections
there has had an impact on the progressive and anti-imperialist movement
worldwide, including in the United States. Misunderstanding the events has
created some confusion in anti-war ranks. This is especially dangerous after
Vice President Joe Biden on July 5 gave a virtual green light to an Israeli attack on Iran. The anti-war movement must stay alert to protest any move in that direction....
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"There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is immoral
and unjust. It does not make the American people any safer. It has the opposite
effect," said Army Specialist Victor Agosto, who has already served one
tour in Iraq in almost four years in the Army. He spoke on May 7 with Alice
Embree of "The Rag Blog," publication of the Austin Movement for a
Democratic Society....
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On the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, support is growing for war
resisters in the United States and Canada in the wake of new deportations and
repression....
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It is becoming clear that the stimulus packages and bail out proposals coming from Wall Street and Washington won't even make a dent in the growing number of layoffs and foreclosures. Working people must organize independently to demand a bail out for the people, not the banks. It's time to march on Wall Street!
The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers are giving trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1 percent of the people while doing nothing to rescue ordinary working and poor people....
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The people voted overwhelmingly for an end to war and occupation. The world
demands that it end. Most importantly, the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, and
Palestine demand that it end....
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The Pentagon reported in January that “Suicides among soldiers rose
for the fourth straight year, exceeding the rate for civilians for the first
time in decades.” ...
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Iraq war resisters Cliff Cornell and Chris Teske were deported from Canada last week. Teske crossed the British Columbia-Washington state border unassisted on Jan. 22 at an undisclosed location. Cornell planned to do the same on Jan. 23....
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What's their real agenda? To use the crisis over the terrorist attacks in Mumbai as a lever to bring Pakistan more fully into the U.S.-led war against Afghanistan....
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The Pakistani government warned Gen. David Petraeus, now head of the U.S.
Central Command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that frequent missile
strikes on its territory risk inflaming anti-American sentiment. (AP, Nov.
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For months now Afghanistan has been deadlier for U.S. troops than Iraq, even
though there are 32,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq....
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All surveys and opinion polls show that a majority of people living in Germany oppose the country's massive participation in the illegal
occupation of Afghanistan, although only a minority in the Bundestag (Parliament) reflect this position. Here, the demonstrators from the Left Party carry a banner that reads: "Federal Army out of Afghanistan."...
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U.S. imperialism's every effort to assert itself and reverse its declining global domination confirms its weakened position....
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Anti-war activists need to address the latest phase of the war - the war against working people here!...
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NATO held a three-day meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on April 2 to 4, attended by George W. Bush and other heads of state. It was a stormy affair. This alliance of imperialist military powers, long dominated by the U.S., was divided on several proposals being pushed by Washington....
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On the eve of the NATO summit, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chair of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said an additional 7,500 soldiers and 3,000 military trainers
needed to be sent immediately to Afghanistan....
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As the fifth anniversary of the criminal U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan neared, tens of thousands hit the streets on Mar. 15 calling for an
end to the war. In Los Angeles marchers targeted CNN at the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga chanting, "CNN, can't you see? Put the peace march on TV!"...
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In this time of economic crisis, thousands of homes are being foreclosed, workers are being laid off in record numbers, and our education system and social programs are severely underfunded. Meanwhile, the raging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing human lives on both sides as well as U.S. tax dollars. The population of the U.S. has proven that we are against these imperialist wars; and yet our tax dollars are going to these occupations, as opposed to our needs....
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, at a NATO meeting in Munich on Feb. 10, threatened the European population with alleged terrorist threats to their security. Gates insisted that the Europeans should be ready to send their youth
to be cannon fodder in U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere in Asia....
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U.S. occupation
forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are creating a nightmare for the population
there as they step up military repression in the face of growing resistance. ...
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A standing-room-only crowd of 400 people packed the meeting hall all day in Tokyo Dec. 15 for the first public hearing of a tribunal charging President George Bush with war crimes in Afghanistan. The Afghan war and the threatened war in Iraq are drawing wider interest in Japan since the country's military supported U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and is being set up for support operations against Iraq. This marks Japan's first open military intervention since World War II. ...
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Get ready for a bumper crop of poppies in Afghanistan. Once processed, it will flood the streets of this country with tons of low-priced heroin. On March 31, 7.5 tons of unrefined morphine were seized by police in Turkey, a NATO power that is playing a big role in Bush's war in Afghanistan. This biggest drug haul ever in Turkey is believed by the authorities there to have come from Afghanistan....
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U.S. newspapers have recently printed photos of smiling Afghan girls on their way to school in Kabul for the first time since the Taliban outlawed education for girls in 1996. The establishment media's message is: "Thanks to the U.S. invasion, the women of Afghanistan are finally on their way to democracy and human rights."...
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In the next few days, the Italian Parliament will discuss about re-funding the Italian military mission in Afghanistan. 8 Senators belonging to the majority coalition announced that they will vote NO. Saturday, July 15, after the call for action of the antiwar Senators, a national Assembly will take place, which already got support of intellectuals, trade-unionists and members of civil-society and catholic associations. Given the international character of the struggle against the occupation of Afghanistan, expressions of solidarity sent by movements of different countries, such the ones which are already being received by the organizers, are of utmost importance. It is important that such statements reach the organizers before the national Assembly takes place, on July 15th [2006]. ...
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Hundreds of Endorsers - More than 40 Organizing Centers - It's time to Shut Down Washington! Stop the War at Home & Abroad!...
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MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C. & WORLDWIDE PROTEST SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007 - 4th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq...
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