1 day ago by dcrowe

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

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3 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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3 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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5 days ago by Susan Simpson

Security Crank and Moon of Alabama have has posts up recently noting how strangely often reports of U.S and NATO military actions claim that, as a result of collateral damage, precisely 30 civilians were killed. As Security Crank writes, [T]he much more important point remains: how could we possibly ...

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6 days ago by realistic bird

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9 days ago by Junaid Afeef

"Fog of war." "Collateral damage." "War is hell." I am not a soldier. I have never fired a gun. For me, the idea of killing another person is very difficult to imagine. Video games are as close to war as I have ever come. I have played video games and in video games I have killed bad guys. The chara ...

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9 days ago by Frisco37

A bomb detonated outside a primary school kills seven children and injures many more even as civilian deaths are officially at their lowest since the 2003 US invasion. Story by Reuters

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13 days ago by realistic bird

Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Press TV The administration of the Nobel peace laureate, President Barack Obama, has authorized an expansion of drone attacks on Pakistan’s troubled tribal regions, a new report says. The New York Times report also says US and Pakistani officials are discussing the possibility of C ...

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16 days ago by promoting the unwanted, redheaded stepchild ...

According to freelance journalist Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater security forces are operating within Pakistan. Scahill is a sort of expert on the mercenary outfit and its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2007, he wrote The New York Time ’ s bestseller, “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Po ...

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17 days ago by Péter MARTON

On September 4 this year, two hijacked fuel tankers were bombed in Kunduz province at German request, with a significant number of civilian casualties. Since then, the ramifications reached quite far. I am not detailing those. I am merely noting that what eventually, by now, transpired about this ca ...

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