From antiwar… “As with yesterday’s story, the initial US report claimed that 30 militants were killed, including an al-Qaeda commander. Though the Afghan Defense Ministry reported several homes were destroyed and that civilians were among the dead, US officials denied that there were any civilians killed. Shortly later, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry released a statement regarding the incident. [...]

According to Le Monde, the ten French troops killed recently in Afghanistan may not have been killed by insurgents during a recent ambush near Kabul but by NATO air strikes called in to aid them - which reportedly took four hours to arrive. French troops that survived the incident have claimed they were hit by [...]

There’s a war on, remember? As far as Canadians are concerned, it’s the war in Afghanistan. As far was the world should be concerned, the occupation of Iraq is quickly approaching its sixth year – that’s longer than the Second World War for those of you playing along at home. Over the last week, the [...]

According to the results of an investigation into the deaths of fourty-seven civilians last Sunday in the district of Deh Bala, authorities have confirmed that they were the result of a US air strike. Thirty-nine of the civilians killed were women and children. The remaining eight other victims were males between the ages of fourteen [...]

Despite the fact that it’s absolutely beautiful here in Toronto today, this entry is going to be quite the opposite. First up on the agenda… Afghanistan According to the International Red Cross, some 250 Afghan civilians have been killed or wounded by coalition and insurgent attacks in the last six days alone. Not surprisingly, with regards to [...]

‘Collateral damage’ – a term popularized by the US military during the Vietnam War. In short it is the unintentional damage caused during an intentional military operation. Today in Afghanistan ‘collateral damage’ took the lives of 22 civilians, among them women and children. The civilians were complying with evacuation orders given them by US troops [...]

Cluster Bombs have been employed by various nations for decades. When dropped, the initial casing releases ‘bomblets’ that then spread across a target area. There are numerous classifications for various purposes ranging from incendiary to anti-tank to anti-personnel, and numerous others aimed at affecting specific targets such as runways and electrical infrastructures. The problem with [...]

Of all those that served in the military in my family, the one common trait shared by all of them is that they did not like to talk about their experiences. My Grandfather and Great Uncles went to lengths to avoid the topic, and as an inquisitive youngster I was sometimes scolded for my curiosity. [...]

Over at Tom Dispatch, Tom Engelhardt runs through 12 Answers To Questions No One Is Bothering To Ask About Iraq… “1. Yes, the war has morphed into the U.S. military’s worst Iraq nightmare: Few now remember, but before George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, top administration and Pentagon officials had a single [...]

The US occupation of Iraq has been, from the beginning, an exercise in plugging holes, ones that continue to spring up in a variety of different areas only to be met with more corks, more excuses, and the ultimate reality that the United States is responsible for plunging a nation, and a region of the [...]