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    Ending the US War in Afghanistan
    Phyllis Bennis

    The recent civilian casualties demonstrate, for any who doubted it,  that this is a war against a vast population of Afghanistan, and the only way to stop killing civilians is to stop the killing. That means to stop all offensive actions and withdraw the troops.

    Afghanistan: this war won't work
    Phyllis Bennis

    Obama's announced troops escalation will not bring security to Afghans, it won't turn Afghanistan into a democracy, and it won't make the US safer.

    Naked empire
    Saul Landau

    In November 2008, Americans, recoiling from the Bush nightmare, voted for “hope” and “change”, but Obama turned out not to be exactly what they voted for.

    US no business in the middle of Afghan civil war
    Phyllis Bennis

    Obama said that there was no military solution, but that's all he's really offering.

    President Obama's Afghanistan Escalation Speech: An Assessment
    Phyllis Bennis

    President Obama's speech reflected accountability not to his base, the extraordinary mobilization of people who swept this anti-war and anti-racist candidate into office, but rather to the exigencies of Washington's traditional military, political, and corporate power-brokers who define "...

    Goldstone & International Law
    Phyllis Bennis

    The Goldstone report is significant not only because of its detailed documentation of war crimes committed in the Gaza war, but also because of its direct reference to universal jurisdiction, that calls on all governments to arrest and try any individual responsible for the alleged crimes.

    Reprise? Obama and Afghanistan
    Phyllis Bennis

    Obama's caving in to the pressures of Pentagon to escalate the war in Afghanistan will inevitably mean weakening his programmes at home and losing the support of the broad progressive coalition that brought him to power.

    Corruption in Afghanistan - Blame and shame
    Martin Jelsma
    Tom Kramer

    If the international community is serious about dealing with corruption in Afghanistan, they need to revise their own dubious practices.

    UN Note: The Missing U.S. Ambassador
    Phyllis Bennis

    The US crusade to bury the Goldstone report (holding Israel and Hamas
    accountable for war crimes) was one of the fiercest of any waged in
    recent years.

    Ending the US War in Afghanistan
    Phyllis Bennis
     David Wildman

    In this compact, concise, jargon-free primer, the authors examine the U.S. war in Afghanistan and why it must be brought to an end.

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