By Ann Wright and Coleen Rowley (2012) original post here: https://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/18/amnestys-shilling-for-us-wars/ For decades, Amnesty International has been a respected name in the cause of human rights, but its recent hiring of Suzanne Nossel, a longtime U.S. “humanitarian interventionist,” […]
In post-9/11 war zones, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, the total death toll could be at least 4.5-4.7 million. Study by Brown University, original post here: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths
Retired Australian Major General Mick Ryan argues that the failure of the defamation case brought by Ben Roberts Smith (where he was found, on the civil standard, to have committed serious war crimes) should incite action over wider […]
By Evan Reif – April 21, 2023, full article below, original post here: https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/21/the-atrocity-mill-how-the-west-conjures-up-atrocities-overseas-to-cover-for-its-own/ Recently, American doctor and ex-Marine Pete Reed was killed near the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine. Since his death, Reed has been lionized as […]
By Dr F. Haider Alvi, Athabasca University, original post here: https://theconversation.com/the-u-s-failed-in-afghanistan-by-trying-to-moralize-with-bullets-and-bombs-174033 Last August, the world watched the chaotic and painful American departure from Afghanistan. It led to a profound reckoning: how could two decades of war end in such […]
From CNN. Normally we would not run anything from CNN, but this is a useful collection of observations on one aspect of the 20 year long criminal occupation of Afghanistan. Original post here: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/asia/us-afghanistan-spending-waste-intl-cmd/index.html Half a billion dollars […]
For generations, Australian soldiers have been sent to commit war crimes in multiple wars of aggression against other countries. Yet they are told they are defending Australia. By Tim Anderson. Original post here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/australian-soldier-ben-roberts-smith:-hero-or-war-criminal When the Australian military’s Brereton […]
By Tim Anderson, Director of the CCHS Nearly six months after the Brereton Report found that Australian soldiers had murdered at least 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners, between 2005 and 2016, the Morrison Government is showing strong determination […]
Former U.S. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson interviewed by Aaron Mate in 2017. PDF below, original post here: https://www.newsclick.in/wilkerson-afghanistan-longest-us-war-will-go-decades
Review article by Jeff Sparrow, full PDF below, original post here: https://overland.org.au/2020/11/the-atrocity-exhibition/
By Mia Martin Hobbs, full PDF below, original post (at Australian Parliament House) here: https://aph.org.au/2020/11/echoes-of-vietnam-counterinsurgency-warrior-hero-culture-and-war-crimes-in-afghanistan/
Chapter Seven (‘Trump heads for the door in Syria and Afghanistan, and can’t find it’) of John Bolton’s tedious and mendacious book: The Room Where it Happened. Bolton presents himself as the level headed hero and Trump as […]
Good intentions gone wrong? “The Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers and trove of documents are worth reading through, but it’s also a contradictory mess containing many distortions and lies by omission.” Full text below, original post here: https://fair.org/home/wapos-afghan-papers-propagate-colonial-narrative-of-noble-intentions-gone-awry/