11 hours ago by dcrowe

You might as well join in. Tagged: air strikes, airstrikes, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, drones

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2 days ago by Derrick Crowe

By Derrick Crowe Once again, the United States is rattling a saber about killing people in Quetta, despite all the inevitable civilian death and mass outrage. Such a move would show the shallowness of the "just war" talk in President Obama's disgraceful Nobel paean to Mars. Quetta is a city of 850,0 ...

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2 days ago by dcrowe

Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. The views expressed are his own. Sign our CREDO petition to reject escalation in Afghanistan & join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter. But make these your first steps as an acti ...

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3 days ago by milnewsca

Compare the Taliban’s code of conduct (PDF): Provincial, districts’ leaders and rest of Mujahideen are bound to take best possible steps to ensure safety and security of the civilian‘s life and property. In case of violation Punishment will be granted to the offender. with the Taliban’s deeds, court ...

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4 days ago by Archer

All this beautiful war talk – when all along this Elegant Intellectual Construction of the idea of ”Just War” can only survive if a vital part of the equation is simply unacknowledged: No one ever speaks of the brutal destruction of civilian lives in this debate – because it might, you know, tarnish ...

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5 days ago by peacepundit

Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald has just released a new video in which U.S. Afghanistan war veterans testify that sending 30,000 more U.S. military troops to Afghanistan (at a cost of about $1,000,000 per American soldier per year) to try to eliminate Al Qaeda and stabilize that country is no ...

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5 days ago by 121Contact

Remember The Parents Circle? They are still working hard at reconciliation. Last night I went out in the dropping temperature to see their exhibit, " Cartoons in Conflict" and got to hear Robi Damlen (Israeli) and Marzan Faraj (Palestinian) speak of transforming the pain of losing their loved ones i ...

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5 days ago by Editors

"We don’t do body counts." These were the words of Gen Tommy Franks, the man in change of the US-led invasion of Iraq. But more than six-and-a-half years after the invasion, the body count has become a critical measure of success and failure in Iraq. In November, officials announced that violent dea ...

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6 days ago by CatLover

Oh … this is really good: Obama’s Jekyll and Hyde speech I loved this excerpt: He began his speech by admitting his award was not for any achievement toward peace, but his “aspiration” to obtain peace. Upon hearing that, my 12-year-old asked me if he could receive an A on his math test not because h ...

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8 days ago by 121Contact

New York City September 11 2001 Baghdad December 8 2009 So you must have some idea of what they are going through now; of what we unleashed upon them; of what we are about to unleash upon the innocent of Afghanistan. Violence is not really the answer. The pain and devastation we inflict will not mak ...

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