The Green Files > Obama's Afghan Escalation Bad Sign for Country's Environment
[Pethacker] Shipping off 30000 more troops to the land of the Taliban may be infuriating to devoted antiwar activists, but the toll the Afghanistan war is having on the environment should also force nature lovers into the streets in protest.
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[Raw Story] Kucinich plans to force vote on US withdrawal from Afghanistan ...: If you have 15 seconds you can hear candidate Obama promise to end the war FIRST thing, .You slither around apologizing for the right wing behavior of Obama, just like Bush lovers used to defend all the crimes of their hero.
[Dissident Voice] Dissident Voice : Politics and Emotion: In fact, 99.99999% (I am guessing at the location of the final 9s) of all amplified behavior - “emotional” behavior for living things - has had this relationship with its stimulating sources, only humans have bogeymen, devils, witches, al-Qaedas, Nazis, monsters-under-the-bed, socialists and a hundred others that energize our motion, demanding a direction for action, while having no meaningful survival-enhancing direction to go in.
[Antiwar.com Original] The Antiwar Right: Our Time Is Near by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com: It's just too big an elephant in the antiwar Right's room, and I wonder why Justin, of all people, seems to be ignoring it so loudly. Mocking the Obama-lovers for their Maoist quotes while idolizing the folks who advocated that America should have slept over Hitler's slaughter of Europe, is not gonna help the (just and right) point of opposing the current Middle Eastern wars.
[The Washington Independent] Anti-War Activist Mounts GOP Campaign for Congress « The ...: Thank goodness there are finally some people who are truly anti-war running for office. If anyone reading this entry truly wants to stop the unconstitutional mass murder perpetrated by the US government in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, please donate to Kokesh and other candidates who support a non-interventionist foreign policy.
[News From Antiwar.com] US Under Pressure to Revise National Intelligence Estimate on Iran ...: This is leading to pressure for the intelligence community to pen a new report, largely for political reasons, to skirt the question of Iran’s nuclear program and to prevent nations from, according to one European official, “hiding behind the NIE” in their opposition to action against Iran.
[YUFREEPRESS.org] Remembering the Day After: Joya is a womens rights and anti-war activist–dubbed the bravest woman in Afghanistan by the BBC–who has repeatedly offered her condolences to mothers in NATO countries who have lost children due to their governments eight-year occupation of her land. How must it feel to always validate the grief of an occupying country for its losses, while those responsible find greater fervour–and find applause amongst many of us–in perpetuating policies of death, violence, and destruction?
[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » CodePink's Head-Scratching War on Drones: Nothing quite like a bunch of war-lovers masturbating to the latest in high-tech gadgetry designed to make it easier and safer for U.S. soldiers to wipe out wedding parties in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hey, I got it, instead of NOT invading and occupying countries and killing people who’ve done nothing to harm us, let’s make weapons that allow us to kill them without having to be there to witness the mess.
[AntiWar.com] Obama and the Politics of Bollocks - by John Pilger: On 28 January, a national Greenpeace advertisement opposing a third runway at London's Heathrow airport summed up the almost willful naivety that has obstructed informed analysis of the Obama administration. "Fortunately," declared Greenpeace beneath a God-like picture of Obama, "the White House has a new occupant, and he has asked us all to roll back the specter of a warming planet." This was followed by Obama's rhetorical flourish about "putting off unpleasant decisions." In fact, Obama has made no commitment to curtail America's infamous responsibility for the causes of global warming.
[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Bombing the Land of the Snow Leopard <br><i>The War on ...: Additionally, Pakistani military experts and others have made allegations that the United States has used depleted uranium (DU) shells to target specific targets inside Afghanistan, most notably against the Taliban frontlines in the northern region of the country.
[IBR Biz Blog] The decade of our discontent: It seems our real goal now in the 'war on terror' (besides getting old Bin Laden) is to make certain these zealots do not obtain more power by taking over countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq. This does serve our national security interest in a big way, particularly since an Iran/Pakistan nuclear combo under control of madmen would be incredibly dangerous to our way of life.
[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Jon Stewart sees something ...: Stewart compares Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan with one given two years ago by that notorious warmonger George Bush, and finds ”¦ a lot of disturbing similarities. Newsbusters has the transcript if you want to follow along: .
[Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown] Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown--Watching Oscar 24/7 » Blog Archive ...: America isn’t off in Iraq/Afghanistan obliterating the population and stealing their resources. If anything America has spent an insane amount of its own money(hundreds of billions?) in handouts to try and build up these countries after the fact.
[Antiwar.com Blog] Don't Blame Us, All Arabs Are Liars « Antiwar.com Blog: Any casual perusal of reich winger discussion boards like FreeRepublic.com (perhaps the most “mainstream” of GOP sites- reveals rank anti racism that literally reaches the fever pitch of the worst Nazi Germany anti Semitic propaganda - complete with referrals of Arabs to bugs and insects and calls for mass indiscriminate violence against civilian populations.
[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - Newsnight: From the web team: Wednesday 4 November 2009: Of course, if you want to withdraw from the EU entirely, as UKIP do, then I suppose continuing to go on about a referendum is fair enough. But if not, then surely the only logical thing is to draw a line in the sand and say no further powers will be transferred without a referendum in future.
[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Tell Me Sully is Wrong: They will call him incompetent if Afghanistan deteriorates, they will call him a terrorist-lover if he withdraws, they will call him a traitor if he does not do everything they want, and they will eventually turn on him and demand ....
[TheTyee.ca] The Tyee ” Anti-War Movement's Strange Allies: Hard Line Islamists: What's more, and unlike you, we do not use the existence of oppression in the Muslim world (as your Cold War ideological predecesors did with the Soviet Union and "communism") to gloss over, obscure and support injustice for which we bear primary responsibility, whether we're speaking of the continuing oppression of women in Afghanistan, U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Canadian involvement in the overthrow of a democratically-elected government in Haiti, or Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
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