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• Gareth Porter

  Published: July 25, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: News, Empire, War Party, Iran, Propaganda, Antiwar Radio, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Afghanistan

  and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, neocrazy media sycophant Michael R. Gordon’s lies on behalf of the Vice-President’s office and its stovepipe, the truth about Iran’s attempted grand bargain of 2003 [.pdf] and the threat of America and Iran’s friends in Iraq turning on U.S. troops in the event of war. MP3 here.

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• Tillman

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:38 pm

  Tags: Reporting, Afghanistan, World, Politics

  of Tillman’s death in Afghanistan. There is a possibility that he was murdered. That certainly wouldn’t have looked good since he was considered a hero and was also a critic of the Iraq war. At least there was appropriate punishment, the general that was responsible for the cover-up and said 70 times to investigators that he

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• Dept. Of Political Assassinations: Who Ordered the Execution of NFL/Army Hero Pat Tillman?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:09 pm

  Tags: Afghanistan, Army, Assassinations, Bush Administration, Conspiracy, Cover Up, Dept Of Political Assassinations, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Pat Tillman, White House

  It’s almost too depressing to mention again, but let’s recap the Pat Tillman revelations from Army medical examiners and internal Pentagon reports released last week and find out what...

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• Afghanistan: Female Boxers Yearn for Olympic Contest

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:07 pm

  Tags: Afghanistan, Women

  are women - and this is Afghanistan…

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• John Soltz

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:33 am

  Tags: News, Propaganda, Antiwar Radio, Afghanistan, War At Home

  is a leader of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans community and is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From May to September 2003, Soltz served as a Captain during Operation Iraqi Freedom, deploying logistics convoys with the 1st Armored Division. During 2005, Soltz was mobilized for 365 days at Fort Dix New Jersey, training soldiers for

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• Dept. Of Implausible Denial: Rumsfeld: 'I Do Not Recall Ordering Hit On Pat Tillman'

  Published: August 1, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Afghanistan, Assassinations, Cover Up, Dept Of Implausible Denial, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Waxman, Iraq, Pat Tillman

  Rumsfeld had a “change of heart” and decided to actually listen to Congress and show up and deny killing Pat Tillman. These are funny times, as you can usually tell when the sacked...

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• God Bless the South Koreans

  Published: August 2, 2007, 10:56 am

  Tags: Afghanistan, Captives, Militants, South Koreans, Taliban

  Of the 23 South Koreans who were captured n July 19, two have been murdered by the taliban militants. They were captured in the Ghazni province, where the church group volunteers traveled by bus from Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar.

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• 13 - 0

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:04 am

  Tags: Islam, Afghanistan

  on a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, killing 13 suspected militants in the process. The nearly two-hour encounter took place in Zabul’s Shahjoy district after the suspected Taliban militants tried to attack the checkpoint on the main road linking Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar, Ali Kheil, the spokesman for Zabul’s

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• No Kabul

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:26 pm

  Tags: Terrorism, Afghanistan

  the Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan and harbored al Qaeda before the September 11, 2001, attacks, as “brutal coldblooded killers” with “a vision of darkness.” That’s not wrong either, and may better show the proper respect you give toward poisonous creatures who hide under rocks.

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• Carroll's Cri de Coeur: Globe Columnist Anguished, and It's All America's Fault

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:21 am

  Tags: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Israel Palestine, Middle East, James Carroll, Boston Globe, Liberal Angst

  woe: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the West Bank and Gaza. Claims Carroll: "one can fault feuding Iraqi factions, Iranian fantasies of dominance, Pakistani duplicity, Taliban ruthlessness, Hamas intransigence, or Israeli belligerence." But that wouldn't be any fun. No, oh-so-predictably, Carroll looks at all that is

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• Torture

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:41 pm

  Tags: Afghanistan, Civil Liberties, World, Iraq, Politics

  (the reporter beheaded in Afghanistan). Here are a few choice pieces: A former C.I.A. officer involved in fighting terrorism said that, at first, the agency was crippled by its lack of expertise. It began right away, in Afghanistan, on the fly, he recalled. They invented the program of interrogation with people who had no

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• 100 Taliban killed

  Published: August 4, 2007, 4:14 pm

  Tags: War, Afghanistan

  an air strike in southern Afghanistan, defence ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi told reporters on Saturday. Coalition troops carried out an air strike in remote Baghran district of Helmand province on Thursday when many Taliban militants

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• Obama’s war plans

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:05 pm

  Tags: Power Games, Safe Negro Report, Troop Surge Plan, Troop Withdrawal, Political Expediency, Obama For President, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, George W Bush, 2008, Politics

  7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to combat the growing Taliban influence and promising to order U.S. forces into Pakistan if necessary to seek out and kill known terrorists. “When I am president, we will wage a war that has to be won,” Obama told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in

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• The Opinionator: A blog at the NY Times by Tobin Harshaw & Chris Suellentrop

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:37 am

  Tags: Suellentrop Chris, Iraq, The Opinionator, Afghanistan, Sept 11

  By Chris Suellentrop Tags: afghanistan, Iraq, Sept. 11 We can't all be heroes: Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks is perturbed by the post-9/11 habit of referring to everyone in uniform as a hero. The empty rhetoric of heroism is everywhere these days, Brooks writes. She adds: Before you run me out of town on a rail, let

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• President Hamid Karzai Thanks Bush for Children Saved

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:14 am

  Tags: Afghanistan, Politics

  all that you have done for Afghanistan; for our liberation first, and then for our stability and prosperity. We have gone a long way. I have been here many times before in America, thanking the American people for what they have given to Afghanistan. I have spoken of roads, I have spoken of schools, I have spoken of clinics, I have spoken of

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