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For the Global Thinker

Sunday, August 23, 2009

The fog of war in Afghanistan


On Newsnight on 20 August 2009, while being interviewed by Gaven Esler, US General David Petraeus said that the Afghan war is "not a war of choice". He was echoing President Obama, Gordon Brown, British military officials and others. We are told constantly that Nato forces have to be there to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a training ground for terrorist attacks on our countries. The implication is that we are killing Afghans in their tens of thousands to stop Britons at home from being killed in their tens, or, at worst, in their hundreds.

The claim that we are in Afghanistan to keep terrorists off our streets is false; our presence there increases the threat of terrorism here.

Read more here...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/23/taliban-afghanistan-opium-trade

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

North Korea releases journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee after Clinton visit



SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea released two jailed American journalists on Tuesday after a visit from former U.S. President Bill Clinton in the highest-level U.S. contact with Pyongyang since Clinton was president nearly a decade ago.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5735XL20090804


Plus a link to more of Laura Ling's great documentaries....Enjoy...
http://current.com/vanguard-journalism/