The Great American Catalyzing Event
The US Invasion of Afghanistan was Announced Months Before the 9/11 Attacks
America seeks Afghanistan Oil Deal
Killings of Afghan Civilians Recall Haditha
'Deletion' of Images in Afghanistan:
Attempt to Cover Up Civilian Killings?
"The Afghan human rights commission concluded that American marines overreacted to a bomb ambush with excessive force, peppering civilians and vehicles with machine-gun fire in attacks that covered 10 miles of road and left 12 civilians dead, including an infant."
Army file details brutal deaths of un-tried Afghan detainees
What Ottawa doesn’t want you to know
"Government was told detainees faced ‘extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture and detention without trial’"
Canada rocked by fresh Afghan abuse allegations
"The Canadians told me 'Give them real information, or they will do more bad things to you"
Canada Ignored Report On Afghan Prison Abuse:Torture, executions 'all too common'
"One leading expert on international law says if the allegations are proven, then Canada is guilty of war crimes."
Is Canada’s Defence Minister a War Criminal?
I can’t resign, I need to finish spending the Liberal surplus on
`retribution'
HARPER’S LEOPARD 2 TANK BOONDOGGLE
Remember...
Mounting Afghanistan death toll the price of leadership,
Harper says
Civilian Death Toll In Afghanistan Continues To Mount
A Big Week for War
"It promotes war as the stuff of nation-building.
Last week was a big week for war.
First there was the full-court commemoration of the almost 3,600 Canadians who died at Vimy Ridge 90 years ago.
Then there were the tragic deaths of eight Canadian soldiers killed by roadside bombs in Afghanistan.
Our political and military leaders wasted few opportunities to draw comparisons between Vimy and Kandahar, in an attempt to equate the puzzling, unpopular Afghan mission in the minds of Canadians with the country's most celebrated military battle.
Of course, the personal sacrifice and bravery of the Canadians who died — both at Vimy and Kandahar — deserve our gratitude and respect.
At issue is not their laudable courage, but the Harper government's use of it to glorify war, to cultivate the notion of war as the great nation-builder."
Canada could utilize private security partnerships(Mercenaries)
in Afghanistan
"Canada is considering greater use of public-private partnerships to help bolster security both in Afghanistan and here at home, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day told a counterterrorism conference Tuesday.
Already Canadian troops in Afghanistan are housed at the Kandahar Airfield base run by Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, the company U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney used to run."
Special forces member dies in Afghan fall
JTF2: Canada's Elite Troublemakers
"Anybody who still thinks that Canada has always been a peacemaker, and was (is) not involved in the war in Iraq, ought to do some reading about the special forces unit known as Joint Task Force Two."
Canada's fully Anglo-American integrated JTF2 Black Ops unit delivering prisoners to the CIA/American forces for torture.
Popping Canada's N.W.O. Cherry
Canada's Lethal Dance in the "Graveyard of Empires"
and Other Associated Topics
Mission of Folly
Chapter 1: Canada Went To War In The Absence Of An Authentic National Debate
"The Chretien government propelled Canada into the Afghan War with little thought in the autumn of 2001. The mission has since been sustained and extended by the Martin and Harper governments.
Despite the brief debate and vote on the issue in the House of Commons in May 2006, this country has had no authentic national debate on the Afghanistan mission."
Why are Canada and NATO in Afghanistan?
"The Afghanistan mission may turn out to be a big gamble for NATO, because it is transforming this alliance from a defensive entity into a tool for aggressive incursions.
History will tell if NATO can survive this new imperial-like orientation."
$150,000 a shot!Canada settles into War
Canadian troops kill another Afghan civilian
Canadians Want Troops Out of Afghanistan
A PDF poll from Angus Reid, April 2007
Harper's New Afghanistan Aid Package Is A Smokescreen
Military Aid Will Not Bring Peace to Kandahar.
Afghans react to abuse allegations
" They promised to do reconstruction,"
"If (the Canadians) cannot co-operate with us, they should go home and then the Americans should send somebody else."
Afghanistan being 'systematically looted'
"Afghanistan is now at serious risk from organized destruction and plundering..."
US military: Afghan leaders steal half of all aid
WAR IS PEACE 2007
Canada stuck in Afghanistan
"If we advocate the complete withdrawal of the occupying forces, then we may well abandon Afghanistan to pandemonium.
If, on the other hand, we continue supporting the occupation, then we will remain complicit in the occupation’s savageries.
One thing seems certain: if the occupation continues on its present course, then the people of Afghanistan, who have been waiting for the occupiers to reconstruct their country and bring the warlords to justice, will soon lose patience.
When that happens, the occupation will crumble, and chaos will reclaim the country."
Canadians scramble to compensate Afghan farmers
Building Tankroads for the Empire.
We want the Taliban back, say ordinary Afghans
"When the Taliban were here, I escaped to the border with Iran, but I was never worried about my family," he said.
"Every single minute of the last three years I have been very worried.
Maybe tonight the Americans will come to my house, molest my wife and children and arrest me."
Men in uniforms rob civilians in Helmand
Losing the War in Afghanistan
"As in countless militaristic U.S. nation–building fiascos, “mission creep” in Afghanistan is leading to another foreign policy disaster."
Corruption, Impunity Pervade Afghan Government
“Once a week I talk to my staff about human rights and respecting the people. I tell them, ‘If you care about human rights, the people will co-operate because you will have left them with good memories. But if you torture them, they will never join you; they will join outsiders like the Taliban."
Afghanistan
CIA blamed for sacking of Afghan governor
"Opium from Afghanistan provides more than 90 percent of the world’s total supply, funding international drug syndicates with billions of dollars in profits every year.
According to a recent report issued by the United Nations and the World Bank, the U.S.-installed government has established a “complex pyramid of protection and patronage, effectively providing state protection to criminal trafficking activities.”
“The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists”
Surgeon General's Warning:
"The heathen Chinese resisted opium imports, so the British kicked their butts and taught them not to interfere in the drug trade.
In 1839 Lin Tse-Hsu, imperial Chinese commissioner in charge of suppressing the opium traffic, ordered all foreign traders to surrender their opium.
In response, the British send expenditionary warships to the coast of China, beginning the First Opium War.
The Chinese were defeated in 1841.
Along with paying a large indemnity, the Chinese had to cede Hong Kong to the British also.
By 1852, the British had arrived in lower Burma, importing large quantities of opium from India and selling it through a government-controlled opium monopoly.
But by 1856, the heathen Chinese had again become uppity, so the British and French renewed their freedom fight with the Second Opium War.
In the aftermath of the struggle, China was forced to pay another indemnity, and the importation of opium was legalized.
More recently, the freedom to grow opium poppies in that part of the world was again restored with the liberation of Afghanistan."
J. Orlin Grabbe
Where's all that Dope Going?
Heroin is "Good for Your Health"
Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade
"The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liason with NATO occupation forces and the British military.
In recent developments, British occupation forces have promoted opium cultivation through paid radio advertisements."
Afghanistan: Drug Addiction Lucrative for Neolib Banksters, CIA
"Before 1980, Afghanistan produced 0% of the world's opium. But then the CIA moved in, and by 1986 they were producing 40% of the world's heroin supply.
By 1999, they were churning out 3,200 TONS of heroin a year--nearly 80% of the total market supply.
But then something unexpected happened. The Taliban rose to power, and by 2000 they had destroyed nearly all of the opium fields. Production dropped from 3,000+ tons to only 185 tons, a 94% reduction!
This enormous drop in revenue subsequently hurt not only the CIA's Black Budget projects, but also the free-flow of laundered money in and out of the Controller's banks."
The Real Drug Lords
A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade
by William Blum
Opium for the people:
Extraordinary move to legalise poppy crops
"The buds of millions of poppy flowers are swelling across Afghanistan. In the far southern provinces bordering Iran, the harvest will start later this month. By mid- May the fields around British military camps in Helmand will be ringing to the sound of scythes, rather than gunfire.
And this year's opium harvest will almost certainly be the largest ever. In the five years since the overthrow of the Taliban regime, land under cultivation for poppy has grown from 8,000 to 165,000 hectares."
Licensing Afghanistan's opium: Solution or fallacy?
Afghan poppies 'could help National Health Service'
"The British Medical Association says using the poppy fields in this way, rather than destroying them, would help Afghans and NHS patients.
Diamorphine, also known as heroin, is used to relieve pain after operations and for the terminally ill."
NATO troops, Afghan police seize pot, opium
Canadians "Crack down" and "tackle" other people's drugs for the New World Order.
Kandahar Faces Daily Misery
"Forget that a road has been built,"
Haji Abdul Rahman, a tribal elder, said.
"If a road has been built and you are killed, what good is it?"
One year on, Helmand is a bloody failure
"But Amir Mohammed, 65, a farmer, said:
"We have had nothing but fighting since the British came.
A lot of people have been killed by them.
The Taliban are back all over Helmand.
They are in Musa Qala, Nawzad, Sangin and Garamsir.
There is no security.
At least there was security under the Taliban.
Also they are now talking about destroying our poppy fields.
How will we eat?"
There is Never Going to be a NATO Victory in Afghanistan
NATO should talk to Taliban because military victory impossible: report
"NATO cannot succeed in Afghanistan with its current number of troops and should enter into diplomatic negotiations with the Taliban to end the conflict there, a former Canadian ambassador to NATO says."
Canada and the World Order After the Wreckage
"New American security doctrines, American and NATO military and diplomatic interventions to initiate regime changes in wayward states, and the proliferation of American military bases around the world, have all redrawn geopolitical alliances.
In line with U.S. 'grand strategy', American unilateralism now occupies the space left by the decline of the Cold War division."
North American Union
AmeriCon Style!
Canada: We Are Better Than This
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