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UK troops assist in framing respected NGO
It appears as though NATO has taken its revenge on the Italian NGO Emergency, headed by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gino Strada. During the recent showcase attack in Helmand, Operation Moshtarak, the NGO...
View ArticleMilitary poll shows Taliban support in Kandahar
Murray Brewster, a reporter with plenty of experience in Afghanistan, has this:Public support for Taliban in Kandahar hit 'all time high' last spring: pollBy Murray BrewsterKANDAHAR, April 6 (CP) -...
View ArticleCanada subcontracts torture
Revelations don't get much more explosive than this. On Parliament Hill Wednesday, the Afghanistan committee heard from Malgarai Ahmadshah, an Afghan Canadian who worked for the Canadian Forces as an...
View ArticleAmerican soldiers lose confidence, says poll
Writing for Politics Daily, columnist David Wood, well-known as a specialist on war and the military, reveals American soldiers' declining confidence in victory in the war in Afghanistan:U.S. Military...
View ArticleMay 29 set for Vancouver action against war
With NATO planning to launch a new offensive in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province in June, Vancouver's StopWar.ca Coalition is organizing a day of protest to respond. Here is the notice for the May 29...
View ArticleIs peace in Afghanistan at hand?
The Guardian's Jon Boone writes from Kabul:Taliban leaders to be offered exile under Afghanistan peace planKABUL, May 5 - Top Taliban leaders could be offered exile outside Afghanistan if they agree to...
View ArticleTaliban flex muscle amid US troop surge
The recent Taliban-claimed attack in Kabul that claimed the life of a Canadian Forces colonel, and which the National Post says marks a "new turn" in the war, was quickly followed by a Taliban attack...
View ArticleRemote control civilian killers
The New York Times' Dexter Filkins relates a glimpse of the sanitized butchery in the State-side control rooms for the drone war. It seems that drone operators watching computer screens a half a world...
View ArticleMilitias: NATO's proxy forces
As the nearly nine-year war in Afghanistan has progressed, it has undergone a sometimes shifting development. In previous years, we saw a steady rise in US (and British and French) air attacks (called...
View ArticleKandahar hostile to foreign troops
One of the frequently recurring themes of this blog has been the unreported current of Afghan public opinion which sees the NATO/US mission in their country as an unwanted occupation. This current is...
View ArticleUS troops kill Afghan civilians 'chosen randomly'
One American soldier based out of Fort Lewis in Washington state has been arrested while others are under investigation for the alleged murder of civilians in Kandahar province earlier this year. All...
View ArticleJune 12 - StopWar Vancouver AGM and anti-war conference
This Saturday, you're invited to join members of Vancouver's StopWar.ca Coalition for a day of workshops, presentations and discussion. StopWar.ca AGM and Anti-War ConferenceSaturday, June 12, 2010, 11...
View ArticleThe Taliban's counter-surge
With Obama's troop surge now half a year old, we can begin to see its effects on the Afghan Taliban. A couple of items in this week's news reveal a bolstered, rather than cowed, insurgency.From the...
View ArticleYour guide to WikiLeaks' Afghan war logs
On Monday, as most readers are probably aware, WikiLeaks released an enormous trove of US military reports from Afghanistan.First, the local angle: There is some Canadian content, though very little....
View ArticlePetraeus' first move: proxy forces
Longtime readers of this blog may remember that a couple of years ago, I was regularly running long compilations of civilian deaths at the hands of foreign forces (see, for example, here and here)....
View ArticleThe Afghan anti-war movement grows
Coverage of Afghanistan's burgeoning anti-war movement is sadly quite scarce, though we have seen in this space some of the more interesting reporting (see here for example). Lately, however, there...
View ArticleSecret 'kill team' killed civilians for sport
This past spring, revelations surfaced of war crimes committed by soldiers based out of Fort Hood in Washington State. Details have been somewhat sketchy until now. The Guardian's Chris McGreal reports...
View ArticleAfghan protesters burn NATO base
Over the past several days, protests in Afghanistan reportedly stemming from threats to burn copies of the Koran in the US have met with armed police reactions which have resulted in injuries and at...
View ArticleAfghans don't trust Canadian forces
Canadian journalist Brian Hutchinson has reported from Afghanistan on a number of occasions since 2006. On returning recently to the country, he penned an interesting assessment of the situation on the...
View ArticleCanadian Peace Alliance: Most Afghans want NATO troops out of their country
Toronto - The most recent poll of Afghan attitudes towards NATO shows that a huge majority want NATO to leave their country. In fact, only 17 per cent want the West to stay after 2011.“With violence...
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Vancouver Rally: People Power, Not War!
On Saturday, April 9, StopWar Vancouver took part in a pan-Canadian Day of Action against the war in Afghanistan. At least ten Canadian cities and towns held events. In the United States this weekend...
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Monday for people, not for fighter jets
It's a simple sentiment that needs repeating during this ongoing federal election campaign. This article by StopWar recording secretary Kimball Cariou was published in rabble.ca. Last June, I wrote an...
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An Evening with Tom Hayden and Rodney Watson Jr.
An event taking place next week in Vancouver that StopWar is helping publicize, looking at anti-war movements from Vietnam to Iraq. Big Dreams of Peace: An evening with special guest Tom...
View ArticleRally Against Harper: Say No to Billion$ on War and Fighter Jets
Harper's holding a "Rally for Canada" in Burnaby Sat... Let's show him we oppose his spending on war and occupation instead of on human needs.Saturday, April 16 · 3:00pm - 5:00pmLocation: 3030 Gilmore...
View ArticleHarper rally in Burnaby to be met by anti-war protesters
Conservative leader Stephen Harper is campaigning in the Lower Mainland today, and local anti-war activists say they will be there to greet him.What: Anti-war protest outside Stephen Harper campaign...
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