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Afghanistan
U.S. imperialism’s crimes against the
Iraqi people are so great that no amount of lying in the corporate media can
wipe them out. That doesn’t stop these manufacturers of instant
misinformation from trying. They have hypocritically presented a patently
fraudulent election, held under an occupying power and administered by a puppet
regime, as a sterling example of democracy and courage.
There are still nearly 100,000 U.S. troops in Iraq seven years after the
illegal aggression, plus an equal number of “contractors” —
mercenaries. The U.S. occupation has left more than 1 million dead and created
5 million refugees. Anyone who opposed this war at the beginning, and the
millions more who want it over with now, should head to the protest in
Washington or other regional centers on March 20 to make their voices as strong
and dramatic as they can....
Posted Mar 11, 2010
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Two street meetings held on Feb. 19, one in Los Angeles and the other in
New York City, confirmed mass opposition to the war in Afghanistan and
disillusion with the government by a population reeling from unemployment,
foreclosures and budget cuts....
Posted Feb 28, 2010
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More than 4,000 people from 70 different German cities came to Berlin Feb.
20 to demand that German troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan....
Posted Feb 28, 2010
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With most media focusing on Haiti and people here in the U.S. gripped by the
humanitarian crisis, they may have missed the dramatic news out of Afghanistan.
Even as thousands of U.S. troops were landing in Port-au-Prince, Afghan
resistance fighters carried out a coordinated attack in the heart of occupied
Kabul, the Afghan capital....
Posted Jan 24, 2010
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The murderous mercenary outfit formerly known as Blackwater and now called Xe
has been making headlines all January, with most stories showing how deeply
committed the CIA and Pentagon are to outsourcing a portion of the task of
re-conquering the former colonial world....
Posted Jan 17, 2010
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Despite the Pentagon’s unmatched high-tech weapons and firepower, the
U.S. military is bogged down by glaring weaknesses rooted in the capitalist
system it operates to defend. The resistance fighters, with far less firepower,
have shown the ability to innovate and adapt their tactics to the needs of
their war to liberate Afghanistan....
Posted Jan 17, 2010
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The United States had 167 unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, in 2002 and
more than 6,000 in 2008....
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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At a national assembly of U.S. Labor Against the War held in Chicago Dec. 4-6,
a resolution was passed unanimously that called for “an immediate end to
the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and military attacks in
Pakistan.” The resolution also declared that “USLAW calls for the
immediate and complete withdrawal of all U.S. military forces and contractors
from Iraq and Afghanistan and the closing of all U.S. military bases in both
countries.”...
Posted Dec 17, 2009
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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....
Posted Dec 9, 2009
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It’s not often that a commercial publication in the United States allows
an Afghan to speak freely about the benefits of life under the progressive
government overthrown by Washington two decades ago. However, the Queens
Chronicle broke the silence when it published “View from
Afghanistan—A Queens man’s view of living in wartorn country”
on Oct. 29....
Posted Dec 9, 2009
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Recent events in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan have again
put the spotlight on U.S. imperialist designs to continue to
subjugate and dominate these south-central Asian countries. They
have also shown that the besieged peoples of these nations will
not bow down to what the belligerent occupation forces have in
store for them....
Posted Nov 8, 2009
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The war to subjugate Afghanistan and use it as a launching pad for
Anglo-U.S. domination of the whole region is in big trouble. Even though
they face more than 100,000 foreign troops equipped with the highest-tech
weapons of death available, the Afghan resistance has been growing....
Posted Oct 25, 2009
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Coordinated anti-war demonstrations took place around the U.S. on Oct. 17 to
mark the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and to demand
an end to the U.S.-led war and occupation there as well as in Iraq....
Posted Oct 25, 2009
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Let’s put the fierce debate taking place over the war in Afghanistan in
the proper historical and class context—from a Marxist point of view, a
Leninist, anti-imperialist point of view. The war to make Afghanistan a U.S. satellite in Central Asia, just like the war
against Iraq and the threats to Iran, is part of an historic effort to
re-conquer that part of the world....
Posted Oct 18, 2009
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Imperialist interests are the very opposite of the best interests of the Afghan
peasants and working people as well as those of the workers, unemployed and
oppressed in the U.S. The only acceptable strategy to serve those popular
interests is to get the U.S. and all NATO troops out of Afghanistan, now.
The anti-war movement here is hitting the streets this October to oppose this
war. Join those protests! ...
Posted Oct 12, 2009
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“Rethink Afghanistan,” a documentary directed by Robert
Greenwald, is available as a DVD or online in six parts at
rethinkafghanistan.com. It opened Oct. 1 in a limited number
of U.S. theaters....
Posted Oct 12, 2009
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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...
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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As 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....
Posted Sep 11, 2009
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The hint is becoming loud and clear in the official media of the U.S. ruling
class: The Pentagon is on the verge of a massive escalation of the war in what
they now call the “Af/Pak theater.” An Aug. 31 attack on a NATO
arms convoy in Pakistan near the Afghan border that blew up 18 trucks served to
underscore the drama of this decision....
Posted Sep 4, 2009
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The fraud-filled and inconclusive Afghan presidential election exposed the
weakness of the U.S.-NATO occupation regime. President Barack Obama’s
defense of the phony election and of the U.S. intervention failed to cover this
up at a time when the people in the U.S. are growing increasingly unhappy with
the Afghan war....
Posted Aug 26, 2009
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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.
The occupation forces imposed a presidential election on that suffering
country on Aug. 20....
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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Iraq War veteran Victor Agosto was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Aug. 5 for
refusing to deploy to Afghanistan after the Army extended his enlistment.
Agosto returned from a 13-month combat tour in Iraq in late 2007. Victor told
the court martial in Fort Hood, Texas, he believes the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan violate international law....
Posted Aug 17, 2009
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The casualties among the U.S.-led occupation forces in Afghanistan are headed
toward a new high this year, reaching 67 killed in July alone. The step-up in
deaths—mostly from the large U.S. and British contingents on an offensive
in Helmand Province—signals the new U.S. administration’s focus on
this Central Asian country of just 29 million people....
Posted Jul 30, 2009
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Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl’s capture in Afghanistan has brought that war into
living rooms across the United States. The heavy media coverage should lead to
the U.S. population rethinking Washington’s arguments for invading and
occupying Afghanistan and now escalating the war there....
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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The U.S. Air Force bombed and strafed villages
with heavy machine guns in the Farah province of Afghanistan on the evening and
night of May 4. Survivors buried 113 bodies, including
many women and children. Later, more bodies were pulled from the rubble and
some victims who had been taken to the hospital died....
Posted May 13, 2009
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Hundreds of angry Afghan women demonstrated in Kabul on April 15. Led by young
activists, they marched to Parliament to demand the repeal of a new law denying
women basic rights....
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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Those planning demonstrations April 3-5 in Strasbourg, France, to counter the
60th anniversary celebrations of NATO, also oppose the use of NATO troops in
Afghanistan and the U.S. attempt to expand the war. They point out in their
call, “Proponents and opponents of NATO both view the war in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, to which the U.S. is committing significantly more troops, as a
key test” for allowing NATO to intervene worldwide....
Posted Apr 4, 2009
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Protests across the country on March 19 and 21 marked the sixth anniversary of
the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in varied ways.
Clearly the charge that “Occupation is a crime—from Iraq to
Palestine” will not stop until the U.S. troops are withdrawn, regardless
of the economic crisis or any change in the political administration of the
U.S. government....
Posted Mar 25, 2009
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Sending 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to reinforce that country’s
occupation will just add another chapter to the nightmare caused by 30 years of
U.S. imperialist intervention in that country....
Posted Mar 2, 2009
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U.S. policy towards Afghanistan is undergoing a major re-evaluation, since its
major local ally and its occupation forces are both showing glaring
weaknesses....
Posted Feb 22, 2009
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The U.S. and its NATO allies face an extremely difficult challenge in
Afghanistan. How can they supply the troops they have there?...
Posted Feb 15, 2009
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The day Vice President-elect Joseph Biden visited Kabul, the current capital,
and Khandahar, the major city in southern Afghanistan, more than 600 Afghan
resistance fighters left Afghanistan and attacked a Frontier Corps outpost in
northwest Pakistan....
Posted Jan 25, 2009
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The movie "Charlie Wilson's War" is no more truthful about
Afghanistan than "Gone with the Wind" was about slavery....
Posted Jan 2, 2008
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