Afghanistan

Empire Files: Noam Chomsky On Electing The President Of An Empire

October 25, 2015 AbMartin, www.videos.telesurtv.net Resistance Report Afghanistan, Capitalism, Democracy, Empire Files, Iran, Kunduz, Noam Chomsky, US elections

By Abby Martin for the Empire Files - At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism and the reality of "democracy" under capitalism.

Is The US Protecting Afghanistan Heroin Market?

October 22, 2015 Staff, www.caribflame.com Educate! Afghanistan, CIA, NATO

By Staff of Carib Flame - The United States has called in air strikes to stop the Taliban from taking control of opium fields in the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province. Over the weekend the air strikes were called in after the Taliban seized weapons and vehicles from Afghan soldiers. Helmand province is said to be one of the world’s largest opium-producing regions, larger than the whole of Burma which is the second largest producer of opium. Production of opium reached an all-time high under the military control of the U.S. and NATO. According to a report issued in 2013 by the Afghanistan Opium Survey of the United Nations, cultivation of poppy increased 36 per cent in 2013. Total opium production amounted to 5,500 tons, up nearly half since 2012.

Newsletter – A People United Will Never Be Defeated

October 18, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Afghanistan, Climate Justice, Drones, Exxon, Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Peoples, Israel-Palestine, Kunduz, Mass Incarceration, Palestinians, Racism, TPP, War crimes, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. This week, hundreds of thousands rallied in Washington, DC for the Million Man March, more information became available regarding US war crimes, we celebrated the second annual People's Climate March and World Food Day and we are preparing a mass mobilization to protest the TransPacific Partnership. Popular Resistance is collaborating with a growing number of organizations and people to protest the TransPacific Partnership and other international treaties that will prevent us from achieving success in our struggles for racial, economic and environmental justice. We are planning a mass mobilization in Washington, DC this November to show the large and diverse opposition to agreements that force us to sacrifice the health and safety of our communities for corporate profits. There will be two days of action preparation followed by three full days of creative events. You are invited to participate in any way that you can.

No End To The War In Afghanistan

October 17, 2015 Sharmini Peries, www.therealnews.com Educate! Afghanistan

By Sharmini Peries for The Real News - After months of discussions with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, President Obama has announced his plans to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan but reduce them from the current 9,800 to 5,500 before he leaves office in early 2017, essentially abandoning the commitment he made early in his presidency and during the 2008 campaign to bring the war in Afghanistan to an end. Obama cites the deterioration of security and weakness of Afghan forces as the reason for keeping the troops in Afghanistan. Here is what he had to say.

Analysts Knew Site Destroyed In Airstrike Was Hospital

October 17, 2015 Roisin Davis and Joshua Keating, www.truthdig.com www.slate.com Educate! Afghanistan, War crimes

By Roisin Davis for Truth Dig and Joshua Keating for The Slatest - The Associated Press has reported that days before an Afghan hospital run by Doctors Without Borders was destroyed in a U.S. military attack, American special operations analysts were gathering intelligence on the facility because they believed it was being used by a Pakistani operative to coordinate Taliban activity. And Thursday, The Guardian reported that a U.S. tank “forced its way into the shell of the Afghanistan hospital destroyed in an airstrike 11 days ago, prompting warnings that the US military may have destroyed evidence in a potential war crimes investigation.”

Obama Pledged To Stop Afghanistan War, End Not In Sight

October 16, 2015 Ali Gharib, www.theguardian.com Educate! Afghanistan, Foreign Policy

By Ali Gharib for The Guardian - President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one. “I’ve decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through most of next year,” Obama said at a press conference where he also reversed his prior decision to have only military presence at the United States’ embassy by 2016. “I believe this mission is vital to our national security interests in preventing terrorist attacks against our citizens and our nation,” Obama said. But, he added, “I do not support the idea of endless war.”

Investigators Ready To Investigate Kunduz Bombing, US Response?

October 15, 2015 Staff, www.msf.orgg Resist! Afghanistan, War crimes

By Staff of Medecins Sans Frontieres - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been informed that the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) has been activated. This is the first step needed to undertake an independent investigation into the attack on MSF’s hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on 3 October. The IHFFC is now awaiting the agreement of the United States and Afghanistan governments to proceed. We have received apologies and condolences, but this is not enough. We are still in the dark about why a well-known hospital full of patients and medical staff was repeatedly bombarded for more than an hour,” said Dr Joanne Liu, MSF International President. “We need to understand what happened and why.”

Newsletter: War Culture, What’s It Good For?

October 11, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Afghanistan, China, Columbus, Iran, Iraq, Kunduz, Russia, Syria, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The confluence of Columbus Day Weekend and the Kunduz hospital bombing has us thinking about the deep levels of cultural violence in the United States and what can be done to change it. How does the US move from a country dominated by war culture to one dominated by a humanitarian culture? Popular Resistance has reported on the the legacy of Columbus. Howard Zinn describes the true history of Columbus and the Indigenous people of North America. There is a great need for the Columbus myth to be revised with realities. When the truth is understood, it is evident the US is celebrating a brutal war criminal and that it is time to abolish Columbus Day.

Release The Kunduz Bombing Tapes

October 11, 2015 David Swanson, www.davidswanson.org Petitions and Online Actions Afghanistan, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

By David Swanson for Let's Try Democracy - There is video and audio. It exists. The Pentagon says it's critically important. Congress has asked for it and been refused. WikiLeaks is offering $50,000 to the next brave soul willing to be punished for a good deed in the manner of Chelsea Manning, Thomas Drake, Edward Snowden, and so many others. You can petition the White House to hand it over here. The entire world thinks the U.S. military intentionally attacked a hospital because it considered some of the patients enemies, didn't give a damn about the others, and has zero respect for the rule of law in the course of waging an illegal war. Even Congress members think this. All the Pentagon would have to do to exonerate itself would be to hand over the audio and video of the pilots talking with each other and with their co-conspirators on the ground during the commission of the crime -- that is, if there is something exculpatory on the tapes, such as, "Hey, John, you're sure they evacuated all the patients last week, right?"

Tell Obama: Even War Has Rules

October 10, 2015 Dr. Joanne Liu, www.msf.org Petitions and Online Actions Afghanistan, Doctors without Borders, Kunduz, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

By Dr. Joanne Liu for Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Geneva, Switzerland - On Saturday morning, MSF patients and staff killed in Kunduz joined the countless number of people who have been killed around the world in conflict zones and referred to as ‘collateral damage’ or as an ‘inevitable consequence of war’. International humanitarian law is not about ‘mistakes’. It is about intention, facts and why. The US attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz was the biggest loss of life for our organisation in an airstrike. Tens of thousands of people in Kunduz can no longer receive medical care now when they need it most. Today we say: enough. Even war has rules. In Kunduz our patients burned in their beds. MSF doctors, nurses and other staff were killed as they worked. Our colleagues had to operate on each other.

Wikileaks Offering $50,000 For Kunduz Hospital Footage

October 10, 2015 Andrew V. Pestano, www.albawaba.com Educate! Afghanistan, Doctors without Borders, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

By Andrew V. Pestano in Albawaba.com. WikiLeaks is crowd-sourcing funds to pay a $50,000 bounty for video and audio of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. "We are raising a U.S. $50,000 bounty to obtain the footage, the cockpit audio, the inquiry report and other relevant materials such as the Rules of Engagement active at the time," WikiLeaks said in a statement. The United States carried out an airstrike on the hospital on Saturday, killing at least 22 people. Gen. John Campbell, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said the airstrike was a mistake and that the U.S. military "would never intentionally target a protected medical facility."

Afghanistan And Iraq: Lessons For The Imperial

October 10, 2015 Ralph Nader, www.nader.org Educate! Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Wars and Militarism

By Ralph Nader for Nader.org - Guess who is winning? An estimated thirty-thousand Taliban soldiers with no air force, navy, or heavy weapons have been holding down ten times more Afghan army and police and over 100,000 U.S. soldiers with the world’s most modern weaponry – for eight years. ISIS forces from Syria have taken over large areas of northern and western Iraq, including its second largest city, Mosul, and the battered city of Fallujah. ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria are estimated to number no more than 35,000. Like the Taliban, ISIS fighters, who vary in their military training, primarily have light weaponry. That is when they are not taking control of the fleeing, much larger, Iraqi army’s armored vehicles and ammunition from the United States. The American people are entitled to know how all this military might and the trillions of dollars spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, since 2003 and 2001 respectively, can produce such negative fallouts.

MSF Refutes US Version Of Kunduz Hospital Bombing

October 4, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Accountability, Afghanistan, Violenc, Wars and Militarism

By Staff for TeleSur TV. Kunduz, Afghanistan - The international non-governmental organization Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) denied on Sunday that its hospital in Kunduz was used by the Taliban to launch an attack against U.S. military personnel, as the Pentagon asserted. “The gates of the hospital compound were closed all night so no one that is not staff, a patient or a caretaker was inside the hospital when the bombing happened,” MSF said through a statement. According to the U.S. military, air strikes were carried out “in the vicinity” after reports of Taliban fighters firing at U.S. troops from the bombed hospital.

#Enough: Afghan’s Five Days Toward Peace

October 3, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Afghanistan, Human Rights, Peace, Wars and Militarism

By Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Kabul, Afghanistan - In light of the 14th anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan and the recent US bombing of a Doctors Without Borders charity hospital in the northern city of Kunduz that has killed at least 19 people and injured dozens of others, the Afghan Peace Volunteers are releasing a video each day for five days to show people in the US that they are human and we should not be bombing them. On their website, Our Journey to Smile, the Afghan Peace Volunteers write: After 14 long years of assuming that the war in Afghanistan is necessary, each day for the *next five short days, we offer you five tiny video snippets which invite you to see Afghans differently. To the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, acquiring new insights is essential, if we are all to survive the growing, multidirectional violence, from the Taliban on the ground or from U.S./NATO airstrikes.

Newsletter: Peace Defeats War

September 13, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Peace, Refugees, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers - This week we learned that there is enough opposition to war in the United States that diplomacy can defeat war. When the Senate voted to derail a deal to stop war with Iran over nuclear weapons, it was a major victory for the peace movement, but it is an opportunity for much more. To achieve the potential we now know we have begins with facing the reality of current US foreign policy. The truth is shrouded by politicians of both parties who believe in “American exceptionalism. The United States has a deep and broad war culture. Every town has a war memorial. There are multiple holidays that honor war and soldiers. The media puts forward the war culture view interviewing former military leaders, most of who are now in the weapons industry. It is the job of the peace movement to challenge the war culture.

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