2009. Försvarsmaktens förre kommendör general Gustav Hägglund anser att en insats där fredsbevarare tvingas anfalla och döda människor inte passar Finland.
Full text of statement below. From the International Federation of Library Associations: IFLA's President Christine Mackenzie and Secretary General Gerald Leitner have issued the below statement concerning the situation in Afghanistan.
Boaventura Kabul, Photo by Mohammad Rahmani on Unsplash The abrupt and chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in mid-August filled the news around the world. With
The only member of Congress who had the wisdom and courage to vote against the 2001 AUMF was Barbara Lee of Oakland. Lee compared it to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution and warned her colleagues that it would inevitably be used in the same expansive and illegitimate way. The final words of her floor speech echo presciently through the 20-year-long spiral of violence, chaos and war crimes it unleashed, "As we act, let us not become the evil we deplore."
Matthew Hoh, a military veteran and diplomat who resigned his State Department post in protest of U.S. policy in Afghanistan, says the 16-year Afghan war won't end until the U.S. drops its strategy of sporadic escalation and insistence on Taliban surrender, with Afghan civilians suffering the worst consequences.
3/12/2016 By Tayyab Baloch (!), "There is no doubt that Russia is fighting the SCO’s war on ISIS in Syria because ISIS is considered a potential threat to the homeland of SCO."
"“The Afghan branch of ISIS is definitely specialized against Central Asia. Russian is even one of their working languages,” Kabulov added. “They are being trained against Central Asia and Russia.”
Sonali Kolhatkar is a founding Director of the US-based solidarity organization, Afghan Women's Mission, which raises funds for social and political women-led projects in Afghanistan. She is co-author of the book Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence. She is also the host and Executive Producer of Uprising, heard on KPFK Pacifica Radio.
By Alfred McCoy via Tom Dispatch
Each stage in Afghanistan's tragic 40-year history of intervention— the 1980s covert war, the 1990s civil war, and the U.S. occupation since 2001 (...)