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WallCloud: November 18th, 2008 : Afghanistan

Stephen Tanner B000LPS4M0
this is a very well-made and quite moving documentary about an afghani doctor and his family who return after many years in the u.s.a. to help out in the post-taliban era...........the only thing i can complain about is that instead of afghani musicians doing the soundtrack they have u...
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2008-11-17  Number10.gov.uk
Transcript of the Prime Minister’s statement on the World Leaders’ summit (G20 Summit): Financial markets and the world economy, to the House of Commons , 17 November 2008. First Mr Speaker, I am sure the whole house will join me in sending our profound condolences to the f...
, Statements , Commons , Doha , economy , G20 , global , Wahington , world
2008-11-17  Iraq Today
Nov. 14 Airpower Summary:Reported Security incidents:Baghdad:#1: Around 1:30 pm a megnatic bomb detonated under a civilian car in Sheikh Omar neighborhood (north Baghdad). Five people were injured.#2: The Iraqi army killed five militants and arrested 26 others during last 24 hours in d...
New Tasks of theLeft Following Obama's VictoryBy Carl DavidsonProgressives for ObamaAmerican progressives have won a major victory in helping to defeat John McCain and placing Barack Obama in the White House. The far right has been broadly rebuffed, the neoconservative war hawks displa...
, Antiwar , Strategy , Gramsci , Obama , Green
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An MIT educated woman accused of being an Al Qaeda operative and charged with trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was found mentally unfit for trial on Monday.
“All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know …Until Now.” In The News: Iraq is ready to boil over - The al Maliki government votes for a Status of Forces Agreement using the ‘Sovereignty Portfolio’ ministers Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that an unnamed hi...
, News/Commentary , Economics/Globalization , International , Social , Travus , U.S. , Middle
2008-11-17  Gates of Vienna
Take a look at the Islamic terror plot uncovered in Arizona, with a connection to the “Flying Imams”.Also look at the financial news from Spain — not good. Unemployment over 11%.Thanks to C. Cantoni, Insubria, JD, Paul Green, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Head...
Los Angeles Times Contradicting nearly two decades of government denials, a congressionally mandated scientific panel has concluded that Gulf War syndrome is real and still afflicts nearly a quarter of the 700,000 U.S. troops who served in the 1991 conflict. The report cited two chem...
, Nightmares , gulfwar , gulfwarsyndrome , iraq
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Unsurprisingly, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's offering of safe-passage to Mullah Omar, should he desire to sit down at the Kabul negotating table, prompted A LOT of chatter amongst AfghanistanCOINMilitary-followers. Spencer Ackerman looks at recent commentary from Kilcullen and Colli...
The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American forces stopped them from doing so. It says that a forthcoming French documentary containing...
, COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS
On Saturday, November 15, at 8:00 am, at the National Archives Building on Connecticut Ave., eight military veterans and a military mother climbed a 9-foot retaining fence and occupied a ninety-foot high scaffolding to raise two 450 square foot banners stating, "DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTI...
Leigh Neville 1846033101
Osprey has always been keen to get books out quickly on on-going conflicts and this carries with it the advantage of immediate relevancy but the disadvantage of limited data available. One of the latest volumes in the Elite Series, Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan by Australia...
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2008-11-17  karmalised
Richard Tanter, Japan Focus, 13 November 2008 Summary By virtually every measure, the war in Afghanistan is getting much worse for both the western coalition and for the Afghani civilian population. The strategic benefits are minimal to non-existent, the risks of a widening war alarmin...
, Uncategorized
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2008-11-17  NLN
Matthis Chiroux flashes a sign of the times at the National Archives(Photo: Elaine Brower / NLN) WASHINGTON — Determined to demand the prosecution of George Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes, I joined in with the Veterans for Peace in the long climb up the “scaffolding” on ...
, News
2008-11-17  True Blue Liberal
From Tom Dispatch By Tariq Ali Afghanistan has been almost continuously at war for 30 years, longer than both World Wars and the American war in Vietnam combined. Each occupation of the country has mimicked its predecessor. A tiny interval between wars saw the imposition of a malignant...
, Afghanistan , News , Opinion , Politics , World
Our military is our bulwark against a dangerous world — and our military is in real need of help. “Troops and equipment are so overtaxed by President Bush’s disastrous Iraq war that the Pentagon does not have enough of either for the fight in Afghanistan, the war on t...
, News
2008-11-17  CSPAN Junkie
November 14, 2008 C-SPAN Washington Journal Eric Margolis gives an update on the results of policy efforts by the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as other areas populated by Muslims. His new book examines the effects of U.S. policy in Muslim areas of the world. ht...
, Afghanistan , Authors , George , Military , NWO , bush , c-span , cheney , cspan , economy , election , henry , president , video , washington
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Can a non-surge strategy work in Afghanistan? One expert says yes.
The military budget has essentially been a sacred cow since the post-Cold War cutbacks initiated under the Old Man Bush administration (when Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense!). And that has been especially true since 9/11, which supposedly changed everything.As I put it before in a...
, andrew , iraq , iran , military
Despite new leadership in the United States promising to cap the country's greenhouse gas emissions, some environmental leaders say it is unlikely that an international climate treaty will pass in the next year. During his campaign, U.S. president-elect Barack Obama supported a globa...
, Energy , News
2008-11-17  hummingbirdminds
A UW Survey and Analysis Center poll shows that Wyoming residents favor a variety of solutions to meet U.S. energy needs, with near-unanimous support for renewable energy.Wind power had the support of 97 percent of respondents and solar power, 96 percent. Almost 87 percent favored pump...
, oil , Wyoming , alternative , coal , environment , energy , solar
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2008-11-17  The Rag Blog
The Afghan government says that at least 70 people including women and children were killed in the 'careless' attack by US forces on Azizabad village in northwest Afghanistan. Photo: AP. Operation Enduring Disaster: Breaking with Afghan Policy By Tariq Ali / November 16, 2008 Afghani...
, War , NATO , Afghanistan , Military
Bijan Omrani 9622177468
This is not your typical guide book. "Go here, stay here, visit this museum, etc...". This is a comprehensive field guide with detailed information on every aspect of culture, traditions and history of the people and land of Afghanistan. The book is a daunting 768 pages, but it is v...
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Consider this a companion piece to Compound F's excellent essay, Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration. Last summer, Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights First released Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the U.S.. The study looked at me...
2008-11-17  The Blue Voice
The military budget has essentially been a sacred cow since the post-Cold War cutbacks initiated under the Old Man Bush administration (when Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense!). And that has been especially true since 9/11, which supposedly changed everything.As I put it before in a...
2008-11-17  The NarcoSphere -
  The name of the US drone, 'Predator,' reflects what the United States has become By Brenda Norrell TUCSON -- The bad news is that the US Border Patrol has four drones flying out of Fort Huachuca over the US/Mexico border for surveillance. One drone has already crashed near Nogales a...
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2008-11-17  Last Free Voice
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gee... do ya think...?a stretch of the doctrine of fair use with apologies to juan cole...The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American f...
, Osama , France , terrorism , George , Al , Afghanistan , Juan , media
by Ben BlockDespite new leadership in the United States promising to cap the country's greenhouse gas emissions, some environmental leaders say it is unlikely that an international climate treaty will pass in the next year.During his campaign, U.S. president-elect Barack Obama support...
, Environment , Government , environment , global , air , climate , causes , greenhouse , carbon , global , carbon , carbon , water , carbon , algae , food , government , government , government
Pakistan denied on Monday a U.S. media report that it had given tacit approval to the United States to carry out missile strikes by pilotless drones against al Qaeda and Taliban targets on its soil. The Washington Post on Sunday cited unidentified Pakistani and U.S. officials as saying...
, Military , pakistan , us , drones
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2008-11-16  Weazl's Revenge
Obama transition points to more war and repressionPresident-elect Barack Obama owes his victory, both in the Democratic primaries and the general election, in large part to the overwhelming hostility of the American people to the years of military aggression, torture, extraordinary ren...
, Warmongers , New , New , President , Barak
Deadly duty for Fort Carson Fort Carson has sent thousands of troops into action overseas. But nine may have brought too much of the war home with them and have been linked to violent crimes. By David Olinger The Denver Post 11/16/2008 COLORADO SPRINGS — Erica Ham was walking to a ...
, Miscellaneous
2008-11-16  TomDispatch
One of the eerier reports on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan appeared recently in the New York Times. Journalist John Burns visited the Russian ambassador in Kabul, Zamir N. Kabulov, who, back in the 1980s, when the Russians were the Americans in Afghanistan, and the Ameri...
Stephen Tanner B000LPS4M0
this is a very well-made and quite moving documentary about an afghani doctor and his family who return after many years in the u.s.a. to help out in the post-taliban era...........the only thing i can complain about is that instead of afghani musicians doing the soundtrack they have u...
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2008-11-16  Clashing Culture
The Election is Almost Over In the United States, we have a new president and the election is nearly complete. There are still three seats in question in the Senate. One will be settled by a special runoff election, and two will be settled (we hope) by a recount. There were two issue...
, politics , ethics , medicine , science
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By Siv O'Neall, Axis of Logic ColumnistThe polarized worldDo we need further proof that greed is not the solution for a sound economy? Do we need further proof that capitalism is foundering? Do we need further proof that ignoring the poor is not the way to make the world go ro...
, greed , ethics , capitalism , solidarity
'Great editorial from the New York Times, "A Military for a Dangerous World," published November 16, 2008:As president, Barack Obama will face the most daunting and complicated national security challenges in more than a generation — and he will inherit a military that is critically ...
In another parallel from the Great Depression comes this article in the Toronto Star on the International Conference on the Capitalist Crisis that occurerd in 1933 after the election of FDR. The conference was a failure as America wrapped itself in the cloak of isolationism and protec...
, Great , Wall , 1933 , FDR
Presented by Alan Johnston. Paul Martin examines the debate within Gaza about whether or not a ceasefire agreement with Israel should be extended. Jill McGivering meets women prisoners in southern Afghanistan who speak of appalling injustice. Martin Redfern warms up on Europe’s large...
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After a little over two years, four hundred and fifty three blog posts and over 225,000 page views, we thought it was time to assemble a Transform blog best-of list. And here it is. 10,000 unique visitors a month and a regular spot in the Wikio top 100 UK political blogs really isn't...
2008-11-14  Bill Moyers Journal
This week on the JOURNAL, guest host Deborah Amos spoke with journalist Elizabeth Rubin and author Fred Kaplan about policies the United States might pursue in Afghanistan and throughout the region, and how we can evaluate how much progress occurs. Amos asked: “When the Bush admini...
, Afghanistan , Iraq