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World News tagged with afghanistan

Afghanistan's Firebrand--Interview With Malalai Joya
World  (tags: world, Afghanistan, women, society, politics, humanrights, conflict )

Cal
- 4 hours ago - motherjones.com
The outspoken former Afghani parliament member on warlords, women's rights, and failed US policy in her homeland.
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Afghans Say Poverty, Not Taliban, Main Cause of War
World  (tags: world, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', politics, Afghanistan, freedoms, conflict, news, society, war, violence, government, interesting )

Cal
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Most Afghans see not Taliban militants but poverty, unemployment and government corruption as the main causes of war in their country, according to a report by a leading aid group released on Wednesday
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New Prison at Bagram Points to Shift in Approach
World  (tags: world, asia, Afghanistan, usa, war, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Cal
- 4 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Detention Facility at Parwan Will Replace Notorious Bagram Prison
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Security Plan Looks to Afghan Villages in Fight Against Taliban
World  (tags: world, Afghanistan, politics, conflict, usa, war, interesting )

Cal
- 9 days ago - usatoday.com
U.S. and Afghan officials have agreed on a new nationwide strategy that will funnel millions of dollars in foreign aid to villages that organize "neighborhood watch"-like programs to help with security.
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Afghanistan: An Unjust War Unravels -- Time for Troops to Leave
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', corruption, Afghanistan, world, politics, interesting, humanrights )

Cal
- 12 days ago - greenleft.org.au
On November 2, Hamid Karzai began another term as president of Western-occupied Afghanistan after being officially declared the winner in an election so blatantly fraudulent that his main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, refused to take part in it any longer.
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Obama 'White Power in Black Face'
World  (tags: Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, u.s., usa, troops, war, military, dishonesty, corruption, lies, propaganda, oppression, imperialism, US imperialism, U.S. imperialism, Africom, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela, demonstration, protest )

Simon
- 12 days ago - au.news.yahoo.com
Decrying Obama as "white power in black face", 100s of Black Americans marched on the White House on Saturday to protest Obama's policies, and to demand he bring US troops home, scrap the USA's Africom, and end U.S. aggression against Cuba & Venezuela.
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Clinton in Pakistan Encounters Widespread Distrust of U.S.
World  (tags: world, war, violence, american, terrorism, politics, middle-east, pakistan, afghanistan, drones, missile, strikes, death, killing, questions )

Tom
- 20 days ago - latimes.com
Not only radicals, but college students and respected journalists question Washington's intentions in Pakistan. The U.S. government is seen as arrogant, domineering and insensitive to their plight, and drone missile strikes are likened to to terrorism.
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16 Americans Dead as Helicopters Crash in Afghan Raids
World  (tags: US, military deaths, American soldiers, military helicopters, Afghanistan, raids, insurgents )

ON VACATI
- 25 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
16 Americans died in a series of helicopter crashes and Taleban attacks across Afghanistan in one of the bloodiest days since the 2001 invasion. Ten people were killed and at least 26 wounded when a Chinook helicopter crashed....more.
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14 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Helicopter Collision, Seperate Crash in Afghanistan
World  (tags: 14 dies, helicopters, crash, afghanistan )

Lone
- 26 days ago - nydailynews.com
KABUL - A helicopter crash and separate collision involving two other choppers killed 14 Americans on Monday in one of the deadliest days for U.S. troops in the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl
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Afghan Women Still Struggle, 8 Years on
World  (tags: world, women, women's rights, afghanistan )

Katie
- 36 days ago - edition.cnn.com
Afghan women have seen their status rise and fall repeatedly over the past three decades, attaining a measure of equality in the early 1990s before the strictly Islamic Taliban muscled their way to power and forced women to again wear the burqa.
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Myths of Our Afghanistan Debate
World  (tags: Afghanistan, afghanistan.conflict, world, government, usa, conflict, blog, interesting )

Cal
- 37 days ago - nypost.com
Eight years ago this week, the Taliban emptied the coffers of the Central Bank and ran away from Kabul. Yet a number of myths still haunt the debate on Afghanistan -- and the Obama administration's policy.
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Obama, Aides Debate Options for Afghanistan
World  (tags: US, Afghanistan, President Obama, presidential advisers, strategy for Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Taliban, Army General Stanley McChrystal, 40, 000 military surge, VP Joe Biden, no reduction in troops )

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- 37 days ago - reuters.com
Obama held three hours of talks with top advisers on a new strategy for Afghanistan on Wednesday, with some aides emphasizing that the main threat to U.S. interests is al Qaeda, not the Taliban.
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Code Pink Founder: 'Afghanistan More Complex Than We Thought'
World  (tags: US, Afghanistan, Code Pink, 2-wk tour of Afghanistan, Code Pink Founder )

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- 37 days ago - theadmonition.com
Ms. Benjamin sharply disputed the notion that her views of the war had changed. But she acknowledged that the nearly two-week trip had given the group "a lot more depth of understanding" about the complexity of the war and the depth of Afghanistan's needs
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Obama and Afghanistan: You Can't Handle the Truth?
World  (tags: government, politics, obama, Afghanistan, usa, conflict )

Cal
- 45 days ago - motherjones.com
The Obama White House keeps running smack into fundamental and inconvenient contradictions concerning its tough slog in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan's "Black Hawk Down" II: It Just Happened Again!
World  (tags: Afghanistan, Americans, military, war, Taliban, Al Queda, terrorism, violence, middle-east, government, militants, insurgents death, investigation )

Tom
- 46 days ago - latimes.com
Eight Americans and six Afghan troops died Saturday after being outnumbered in an attack strikingly similar to an insurgent assault 15 months ago in which nine U.S. soldiers died in an outpost in the same northeastern province, Nuristan.
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