from the page: "A mother and her five children were among 20 civilians killed in two separate airstrikes.. The first incident took place late on Friday when an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopter missed its target and dropped bombs on a house in the Fatih Mohammad Pech area of Sangin district in Helmand... Daud Ahmadi told Pajhwok Afghan News instead of striking a militant hideout, the foreign forces killed a mother, her three daughters and two sons... Separately, 14 civilians were killed and six others wounded in another airstrike by the international forces in Bala Murghab district of northwestern Badghis province."--they aren't "mistaken" raids. the foreign forces repeat the "same mistake" countless times, which means they oppose avoiding making "mistakes". 11 years ago, they started with bombings on afghan civilians in Kabul, killing them, starving them, and forcing them to be refugees. since the start of this war, they've committed intentional atrocities.

from the page: "..Caterpillar-owned Electro-Motive workers in London, Ontario refused a new contract slashing wages and benefits. After locking out the workers for three weeks, Caterpillar announced it was closing the plant and moving operations to Muncie, Indiana, where it would pay $12.50 an hour compared to $28 an hour in Canada... A new strategy is needed, above all the international unity of the working class to politically oppose—on a class basis—the dictatorship of the big corporations..."--this article omits a very important thing: those workers in Ontario stood against also Caterpillar' bulldozers which are used by the Israeli army to destroy homes of Palestinians. It seems that the US workers for Caterpillar look away from Palestinians' sufferings and claim shares of bloody war profits. this article narrows the vision of "the working class" by regarding them as only victims of the company or capitalism, and prevents creating a greater international unity against capitalism.

from the page: ""Caterpillar equipment is used to destroy homes in Palestine. Kind of like what Caterpillar is trying to do to our homes here in London," a locked-out worker commented outside the Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) plant last week on their picket line. .."

from the page: "...Grass openly addresses the question in Peeling the Onion. “Enough excuses,” he writes about his membership in the Waffen SS.“And nevertheless, for decades I have refused to admit to myself the word and the double letter. That which I had accepted on the basis of the stupid pride of my young years I sought to conceal after the war due to my growing shame. But the burden remained, and nobody could lift it.“During my training as tank gunner, which I endured the autumn and winter-long, there was no word of the war crimes which later came to light, but claims of ignorance cannot conceal my insight of being involved in a system which had planned, organized and carried out the destruction of millions of people. Even if I am absolved of active responsibility, there are still up to today the threadbare remnants of what is all too easily called shared responsibility. And it is certain that this must be lived with for my remaining years.”

from the page: "Some of protesting prisoners in the southern province of Kandahar could die if they did not call off their hunger strike, a human rights activist warned on Wednesday. On April 29, political prisoners in the cenral jail went on a hunger strike against plans to transfer them to a prison in Kabul. The inmates said they would continue their protest and stitch their lips together if their demands were not met. The prisoners also wanted a human rights commission to visit the jail for talks on their problems. "I saw 13 political prisoners, who have sewn their lips, in bad health condition," said a right activist, who visited the jail. Shamsuddin Tanwir quoted some prsoners as saying that 50 to 60 inmates had stitched their lips and could not be shown to rights campaigners. Regarding complains of inmates, he said: "About 710 political prisoners are being kept in 30 rooms¸ which have only eight bathrooms." The prisoners also complained of poor and inadequate food, as well...

from the page: "Bolivia's army occupied the installations of the country's electricity grid Tuesday after President Evo Morales nationalized the Spanish-owned company that runs it. The president..ordered the seizure of the assets of Madrid-based firm Red Electrica in Bolivia... Until Tuesday, the Spanish utility owned 99.94 percent of Transportadora de Electricidad (TDE), the company that has run Bolivia's creaking transmission grid since 1997 when the electricity sector was privatized. "As a just homage to the entire Bolivian people, which has struggled for the recovery of its natural resources, its basic services..," He went on to accuse the Spanish company of investing just $81 million in Bolivia's transmission grid in the last 16 years... It also comes just two weeks after..Argentina President..sparked a major international outcry by nationalizing YPF, the local subsidiary of Spanish oil company Repsol. The news comes as yet another blow to Spain’s stalled economy.

from the page: "...A 2008 study undertaken by the well known Iraqi human rights organization, Al Amal (Hope), found that 72 percent of children of displaced families residing in Nasiriya, near Basra, were engaged in work inappropriate to their age, often more than seven hours per day, such as street cleaning and portering. The study, which surveyed 411 families with a total of around 1,200 children, also found that a lot of the child labourers were selling drugs or their own bodies... But observers believe child prostitution is particularly widespread among Iraq's displaced families - that is, families who have been forced to flee to other areas due to sectarian or other violence in their hometowns. And there are an estimated one million displaced persons in the thriving southern province. “Child abuse is a new phenomenon and it has emerged over the past three decades in Iraq, due to the abnormal circumstances here,” Toman explained."

from the page: "Hard on the heels of Khar-Grossman talks in which Pakistan turned down the US request to let Nato supplies pass through, the US ended its month-long hiatus in drone warfare and claimed that it had killed four suspected militants and wounded two others holed up in a girls’ school in North Waziristan on Sunday. The truth is that the attack left four young girls dead. The attack seems more like an attempt to pressurise Islamabad rather than fighting terrorism. "

from the page: "Hundreds of residents on Tuesday staged an angry protest against NATO-led forces in the southern province of Zabul... Three children were killed and another three wounded during a clash between Taliban and foreign troops on Monday evening, when the fighters attacked a gathering of tribal elders, local policemen and foreign forces... Local residents and Taliban accused foreign soldiers of killing the children. Foreign forces opened fire on the children after the attack, killing six and injuring five others, aged between 7 and 12 years, said resident Mohammadullah. Resident Syed Mohammad told Pajhwok Afghan News thousands of people wanted to stage a protest in the district bazaar, but security personnel did not allow them. Later on, they closed the Kabul-Kandahar highway. A delegation of provincial council, peace council and security personnel representatives arrived at the scene around noon but it failed to convince the demonstrators to halt their protest, he added.

from the page: "These are high times for gun makers and firearms retailers. While many sectors have been slogging through the recession and an anemic recovery, the firearms business has seen growth both nationally and locally. Industry officials and local retailers say most of the past three years has been good to them. They’ve hired new workers and seen annual sales increases of 40 percent or more. Their gains have also translated into expansion for some. And 2012 should prove to be another growth year, although local economic conditions could temper that growth. A report released earlier this month by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group for gun and ammunition manufacturers and retailers, said nationally that the firearms industry increased jobs by more than 30 percent and improved its economic impact by more than 66 percent between 2008 and 2011."

from the page:"..The army considers itself more sexually `advanced' because they read pornography or impose it upon their prisoners... ..we have to understand the torture as the actions of a homophobic institution against a population that is both constructed and targeted for its own shame about homosexuality; the actions of a misogynist institution against a population in which women are cast in roles bound by codes of honour and shame, and so not `equal' in the way that women ostensibly are in the West. In this way, we can see the photographs that the US army distributed of women without the veil as a sign of the US `triumph' in Afghanistan as prefiguring the digital capture and coerced stripping and violation..in Abu Ghraib.. ..it [the US] brings [to the Islamic Other]..is torture as the instrument and sign of civilization. These are not aberrant moments of a war, but, rather, the cruel and spectacular logic of US imperial culture as it operates in the context of its current wars.."

from the page: "
Death Poem by Jumah al Dossari

Take my blood.
Take my death shroud and
The remnants of my body.
Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.

Send them to the world,
To the judges and
To the people of conscience,
Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.

And let them bear the guilty burden before the world,
Of this innocent soul.
Let them bear the burden before their children and before history,
Of this wasted, sinless soul,
Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the “protectors of peace.”
"

from the page: " ..Studies since the 2004 Fallujah battles have recorded profound increases in infant mortality and cancer in Fallujah; the latest report..says that congenital malformations account for 15 per cent of all births in Fallujah. "My son cannot support himself," Mohamed says, fondling his son's enlarged head. "He can move only his hands... He can't swallow. Sometimes he can't take even the milk, so we have to take him to hospital to be given fluids. He was blind when he was born. In addition, my poor little man's kidney has shut down. He got paralysed. His legs don't move. His blindness is due to hydrocephalus." ... "After he was born, I got Sayef to Baghdad and I had the most important neurosurgeons check him. They said they could do nothing..." .."Every time I watch my son, I'm dying inside," he says, tears running down his face... I ask whom he blames for Sayef's little calvary... "I am only asking for help from God.. I don't expect help from any other human being."

from the page: " ..."Iran is a threat, but can we say that it will make a second Auschwitz?" Wiesel remarked. "I don't compare anything to the Holocaust…" --the westerners have trampled non-westerners by regarding the nazi holocaust as the Holocaust, "which is beyond all comparison". by equating their "enemy" country's regime with the nazi one, "whose badness is beyond all comparison", they demonize it and justify shattering its people's livings by their bombings and sanctions. by comparing other holocausts committed by the west in africa, middle-east, america, asia and oceania with the nazi holocaust, "whose victims' sufferings are beyond all comparison", they regard other holocausts as "trifles", belittle and neglect non-westerners' sufferings caused by them, and repeat colonizing and destroying other countries. to regard their sufferings as ones, "which are beyond all comparison", is different from to strive to ease their sufferings, which nothing can completely erase from them.

from the page: "April 24 Xinhua China Press reported, 23, Japan and the U.S. hold talks, the two sides reach a consensus on common U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean... In the talks, Japan and the U.S. government common use of U.S. military bases of the Pacific Ocean to reach a consensus. In addition to the base of the US-collar Guam Northern Mariana Islands, the Japan Self-Defense Force also possible to use U.S. military bases in the Philippines island of Palawan or Luzon. the U.S. government to prepare the U.S. military in Okinawa in the form of a “round robin” stationed in Hawaii, Guam, the Australian city of Darwin... In addition, conditions of use as a base, Tinian Island, Japan will U.S. military bases to provide a huge amount of preparedness fee. In addition, the Philippines, the use of base fee amount is currently under discussion. Japan Self-Defense Forces abroad in recent years have become increasingly frequent."--I'm shocked at this news and at silence over it in japan.

from the page: "Russian-Chinese war games "Naval Interaction-2012" in the Yellow sea has entered its active phase on April 24. 25 warships, 13 aircrafts, 9 helicopters and 2 units of the special forces of the two countries participate in them. Taking into account the number of participating forces and the scenario, these manoeuvres are apparently the most large-scale in the modern history of bilateral relations... According to the RF Ministry of Defence message, the goal of the manoeuvres is strengthening and development of the Russian-Chinese relations and strategic partnership, and cooperation between the two countries and their armed forces. At the same time one of the main aspects of any war games is a demonstration. Apparently, the necessity of such a large-scale demonstration of the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership possibilities has arisen after the promulgation of a new US military doctrine concerning the Asia-Pacific region.

from the page: "...It comes after the Barack Obama administration positively declared the South China Sea as an area of utmost importance for U.S. national interests. Already the U.S. has started allocation of its troops in adjacent regions. The first 200 marines have already arrived in Australia, and there are plans to deploy warships in Singapore... The South China Sea is one of the world’s busiest sea lanes, and has lately become a stage for harsh territorial disputes... A factor adding to the existing tensions is that all China's rivals are members of the ASEAN group and would prefer to deal with the territorial dispute in a multilateral format, while China prefers to deal with each country separately... Twenty years ago, the Filippinos voted for a removal of all U.S. bases, including its biggest naval base in the Pacific at Subic Bay. It seems that the U.S. strategists have come to a conclusion that it is time to return to a stage of national importance.

from the page: "One of the groups critical of US military presence in the country accused the Washington government of turning Palawan island province into de facto naval base for US troops who will be redeployed to the country once they leave their naval base in Okinawa, Japan.“It is interesting to note that the next staging of RP-US Balikatan exercises is chiefly focused in Palawan province. The US government wants its 6,000 mercenaries to familiarize with the terrain of the island province and convince Palawan folks that US soldiers are kind, generous and they are their knights in shining armor in vain attempt to make the island as US new Okinawa naval base in the Southeast,”... Pamalakaya vice chairperson Salvador France theorized that the next joint US-PH military exercises in Palawan and the rest of Luzon Island scheduled on April 16-27, 2012 is a preparatory stage for the establishment of mini-naval bases in Palawan...

from the page: "Officials said a total of 324 people were killed and injured, including Taliban militants, policemen and civilians, in various security operations over the span of one month in southern Helmand Province. About 80 Taliban militants were killed, 26 detained and three others injured during 13 joint operations, conducted by Afghan and foreign troops, police chief Col. Abdul Nabi Ilham told a news conference. He added that militants carried out three suicide attacks, 40 mine explosions and 31 attacks during the period, killing 28 policemen and injuring 43 others. Also in the incidents, 40 civilians were killed and 130 others injured..."--setting my suspecting that the breakdown of casualties is manipulated aside, if the US had not invaded Afghanistan, or if americans had taken their soldiers back to the US, those hundreds of Afghans would not have been either killed or injured. how many Afghans became orphans or widows? how many families lost their means of livelihood?

from the page: "Organ samples and medical records of more than 1,200 babies of Japanese survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of two Japanese cities who were born dead or died shortly after their birth were sent to the United States for radiation research... Hiroko Takahashi..has said internal documents of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, or AFIP, show some 77,000 newborns were studied between 1948 and 1954 and she estimates body samples and records of more than 1,200 newborns were sent to the United States. "Newborns were treated in the same way as guinea pigs for the study of nuclear weapons and radiation. The current radiation standard is based upon that,"... ..samples of bomb victims as well as their newborns in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sent to the country [the US] during the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces' occupation period... The ABCC concluded after the research that there was no genetic influence stemming from radiation at that stage.

from the page: "..With the help of the Haitian elite, the "international community" has imposed a series of neoliberal economic policies on the country since the 1970s. ..86 percent of the houses destroyed by the quake had been built since 1990... Chavannes Jean-Baptiste aptly summed up the foreign powers' view of post-earthquake Haiti. "Haiti is essentially roadkill.. Companies like Monsanto are devouring what is left of us at this point." Most Haitians are of course excluded from discussion... We want houses that respect our local architectural style and that use as much local materials as possible… We want beautiful houses that represent our culture, houses that give the community life, and that help us maintain dialogue between ourselves; houses that have yards and gardens where we can grow vegetables and medicinal plants…houses that provide space for us to live as families with neighbors in the lakou [traditional communal courtyard], where we can share food and daily activities.

when I hear the news that Iraqis rejected the US demands that they should give it a permission that it uses their land to launch military strikes against other countries and should conclude the SOFA with it and should tolerate its military bases in Iraq, and that the people across Africa haven't permitted it to build its military bases of AFRICOM in africa, and that Afghans indomitably has resisted against the US military occupation, and that Filipino people protest against joint Philippine-US military exercises and the VFA, I realize that servility has taken root in the Japanese so deeply that they including me aren't fully aware of the seriousness of the problems about the US military bases in Japan, which are freely used as launch pads for US aggressive wars, joint Japan-US military exercises, which set up their neighboring countries as enemies, the US-Japan SOFA, and Japan's financing help for US bases. we've betrayed the people around the world, who resists against the US Empire.

from the page: "..It [the US] is more worried about China’s military strength being able to defend China, fend off US imperialist dictates and threats and combat separatist forces in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang. The US strategy of encirclement is calculated to keep China as a friendly partner in the exploitation of the Chinese and other peoples... The efforts of China to find its own sources of energy and raw materials and markets and fields of investment can be at times irritating or even infuriating to the US (when the conflicts of interest occur as in Iran, Sudan, Libya and Syria). But the capitalist powers can settle their relations with each other at the expense of the working people and underdeveloped countries, until the crisis of the world capitalist system further worsens to the point that a number of capitalist powers accelerate their aggressiveness and even become fascist in their home grounds. "

from the page: ".. But so far China’s actions and actuations [regard to the China-Philippines territorial issue] manifest assertiveness rather than outright military aggression. The Philippine reactionary government should desist from self-fulfilling its claim of China’s aggression by engaging in an anti-China scare campaign. The Filipino people and progressive forces must consciously differentiate their position from that of the Aquino regime, its military subalterns and its Akbayan special agents who pretend to be super patriots against China but are in fact servile to the interests of US imperialism and are using the anti-China scare campaign to justify the escalation of US military intervention in the Philippines and US hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region."--territorial issues complicated by US military occupations are difficult to resolve, because the US keeps them alive to make profit from those unresolvedness. ..."

but it comes from cut in social services in the US. during the Vietnam war, it came from the draft. if it had come from conscience, they would not have neglected victims of agent orange nor would they have approved subsequent wars. even if they, who today approved the withdrawal, prepare waging a new war tomorrow to clear debts, I'm not shocked at it. they tolerate also the US keeping killing the occupied people to gain time for US face-saving withdrawal. and they never oppose sponging off taxpayers of the US allies, the "defeated nations", while opposing putting their tax money into war. their usual ways come from dehumanizing non-americans, the US exceptionalism. the Pentagon Papers was unhelpful to wipe out the US exceptionalism of americans. King, who struggled against poverty, racism, and the US exceptionalism, all of which are fuels of war, fell dead along the way to attainment. your words must be unuseful to mobilize war-addicted and US exceptionalist americans to stop war.

I think that some americans who mention US wars in terms of a matter of winning or losing will regard a war which the US wins as right. the people of a nation, which lost a war with the US, keep suffering endlessly, because to squeeze them dry, the US strips them of their dignities, imposes a constitution and treaties on them, which enable it to legally exploit them as cheap labor and to plunder of their resources, destroys them culturally and psychologically, promotes corruptions of its puppets, and eliminates its opponents by any means. most americans have connived at this.
the biggest industry of the US is war. how many americans depend on it to make their livings? because of their war-addiction, they tolerate themselves, their families and neighbors joining army or working for the war industry as a way out of poverty, which is less serious than that of Afghanistan and Iraq. a large majority of americans, according to the recent poll, approve US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

I don't want to say anything about these photos. rather, I have no comfort to offer Afghans. because Americans are used to seeing such photos of Iraq and Afghanistan for a decade, they must not be shocked at them. but no matter how many times Americans, especially ordinary Americans, see them, their reactions have never changed. I'm tired of seeing such articles as are full of self-justification, self-pity, self-promotion, makeshift self-examination, empty criticism of their government and the 1%, pseudo antiwar sentiment, nominal protection of human rights, amnesia, paranoia, US exceptionalism, and selfish motives, -- written by the Americans who want to play the innocent victim and to cling the US exceptionalism.

from the page: "...Afghan government forces, assisted in some cases by foreign troops, claimed yesterday that they had killed 39 insurgents. Eight Afghan army and police personnel were reportedly killed and up to 40 wounded. At least four civilians were killed in cross-fire and several dozen injured... locals, who told the New York Times they had seen a utility vehicle occupied by a group of men simply drive into the car park of a building site near the embassy zone. As in earlier incidents, the seeming ease with which security was breached suggests the insurgents were assisted by elements in the Afghan government forces... insurgents have demonstrated their ability to strike at the heart of the US-led occupation... The US attempt to blame the Haqqani network for the latest attacks is more than likely bound up with the desperate efforts that have been made by the Obama administration to initiate negotiations and strike some form of deal with the main Taliban leadership...

from the page: "..The reason, then, for punishing Iranians with new and more debilitating privations is not because their government has a secret nuclear weapons program —which no one in the US state believes anyway—but because a developing Iran with independent energy, economic and foreign policies threatens Washington's preferred world political order—one in which the United States has unchallenged primacy... Iran’s economic policy, with its restrictions on foreign investment and foreign ownership, and reliance on state-ownership of key industries, is an anathema to a US corporate and financial elite... The barbarism—concealed beneath lies about the need to protect Israel from an existential threat posed by an Iran that is "suspected" to be secretly building nuclear weapons –is revealed: Iran is being impoverished and threatened with physical destruction,..because its insistence on sovereignty is a threat to unrestricted Western corporate and financial domination of the Middle East.

from the page: "

Selling the Faith

Decisions are made there, above in the sky,
No one can be blamed for what happens.
Everyone’s fate is separate,
Each man is passing through a time of testing.
One person is granted wealth and selfishness,
One is hopeless from poverty.
Some have sold their faith for money;
They accompany the non-believers elsewhere.
Pious God!
Eliminate their hypocrisy!
Grant a little modesty and zeal to Muslims.
Halim sitting and praying asks that
Muslims be granted dignity in all things.

Abdul Halim
December 16, 2007"

from the page: "
Just like the phoenix, our continent is burning, and the heat is preparing us, preparing us to rise
Just like the lion, we will soon roar, and we will care for nothing, but our freedom and dignity

We have studied your ways
You use your military superiority to rule on us
You take advantage of our goodness to splash your wrath on us

You may not hear our voices, neither do we care
We are organizing
We have learnt from our past
But most importantly
We are learning from your past and present

And when we rise
And when the fire starts to burn
You will realize that the generation has arrived
And we shall not forgive, we shall have no mercy, we shall keep our Utu aside
We shall use your methods to instill humanity into you
A worse fate will meet your local stooges and puppets
For we have seen that love can't work for you

And we shall end all this
Once and for all
Because we are tired of watching you "

from the page: "At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects – there are just too many. Parents don't want to talk. "Families bury their newborn babies after they die without telling anyone," says hospital spokesman Nadim al-Hadidi. "It's all too shameful for them." "We recorded 672 cases in January but we know there were many more," says Hadidi... Hadidi says parents' feelings usually range between shame and guilt. "They think it's their fault, that there's something wrong with them. And it doesn't help at all when some elder tells them it's been 'god's punishment'."... the Americans tested all kinds of chemicals and explosive devices on us: thermobaric weapons, white phosphorous, depleted uranium...we have all been laboratory mice for them," says Hadidi..." --don't refer to the data of hiroshima/nagasaki, which were very manipulated by the US. referring them without mentioning the manipulation will damage the credibility of your article.

from the page: "The British government conducted 12 nuclear bomb tests in Australia in the 1950s... Permission was not sought from affected Aboriginal groups... So-called 'Native Patrol Officers' patrolled thousands of square kilometres to try to ensure that Aboriginal people were removed before nuclear tests took place. Signs were erected in some places - written in English, which few in the affected Indigenous communities could understand. The 1985 Royal Commission found that regard for Aboriginal safety was characterised by "ignorance, incompetence and cynicism". Many Aboriginal people were forcibly removed from their homelands and taken to places such as the Yalata mission in South Australia, which was effectively a prison camp. In the late-1990s, the Australian government carried out a clean-up... "What was done at Maralinga was a cheap and nasty solution that wouldn't be adopted on white-fellas land."

from the page: "Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former Taliban leader considered an important interlocutor in negotiations to bring the armed group to the discussion table, has fled the country for safety reasons. A source close to Zaeef told Al Jazeera that American forces had tried to search his Kabul home twice over allegations of involvement in an international terror plot, but his government-provided bodyguards had prevented their entry... Zaeef, under close watch by the government since his release from Guantanamo, pleaded his innocence, according to Muzhda. He said the accusations against him were baseless. Muzhda said Zaeef feared for his life in the wake of the attempted raids on his home. Many of the Taliban prisoners freed from Guantanamo had been killed in night raids and that made Zaeef more nervous. Zaeef's book on his time in Guantanamo, detailing accusations of mistreatment of prisoners, had also not endeared him to the US. "t

from the page: "...The MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transporter belonging to a US Marine Corps unit based in North Carolina crashed during military training near Agadir, southwestern Morocco on Wednesday... The crashed aircraft is the same as the ones the US Marines plan to deploy on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa later this year... The Osprey takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter but flies like a fixed-wing airplane. The Osprey suffered a series of accidents during development. Another Osprey, belonging to the US Air Force, crashed in Afghanistan 2 years ago. People in Okinawa are voicing opposition to the planned deployment."

from the page: ".."I believe that such companies [PMCs] are a way of implementing national interests without the direct involvement of the state," Putin replied... Western governments find it difficult to conduct operations in the combat zones without "a contract workforce," which is another word for mercenaries whose losses are of no concern to anyone apart from their direct employers and who can be assigned the most delicate missions. If they are caught red-handed, they are on their own.. Russian PMCs could be also used in Afghanistan, whose pseudo-stability has closely tied the interests of NATO with those of Moscow. The deployment of additional troops there may be difficult due to local problems and political losses, but the use of the contract workforce could smooth off some rough edges. At the same time, PMCs could be a good way to offer retired servicemen new employment opportunities at a time when Russia's Defense and Interior Ministries are planning to reduce their workforces.

from the page: "Two people were killed and another 25 injured during a clash with police after a protest over the killing of a seminary teacher by a joint Afghan-coalition force turned violent in northern Faryab province... More than 1,000 people took to the streets in Maimana, the provincial capital, against the overnight operation that resulted in the death of madraasa teacher Qayamuddin... Two of Qayamuddin's brothers and a cousin were arrested... Carrying the victim's coffin, the protestors marched on the governor's house, chanting slogans against the US and Afghan governments. They called for the immediate release of the detainees... Hours before the demonstration, Governor Abdul Haq Shafaq said he had contacted officials in Kabul to discuss the release of the detainees with foreign troops. The rally ended at around 4:30, but the protestors remained inside a mosque in the city, saying they would not offer funeral prayers for the victim until his killers were punished."

> North Korea's immunity to American attack..
to get South Korea and Japan to buy armaments made by the US and to keep the US hegemony in Asia, the US has used north korea to produce a sense of impending crisis in the two countries. North Korea knows it is a good promotion tool for the US arm selling.

> A country that cannot produce industrial and manufactured goods, but can only print debt instruments and money is not a powerful country.
why do you look away from the US powerful military and its history? it has frozen other countries with its overwhelming military forces, has not hesitated to commit brutalities, and has had weapons which annihilate humanity. such a country might use its military power to cross its debt off accounts. if it does so, the Japanese most heavily suffer from it. do you think it's a SUCCESS of the Empire?

>Washington violates the human rights of its own citizens.
when Washington treats its citizens as subhuman, its citizens treat non-americans as subhuman. when Washington enjoys violating international laws, its citizens enjoy the US exceptionalism. when Washington pays no heed to its citizens' cry, its citizens pay no heed to the cry of outrage of the people of countries occupied by the US. when Washington attaches its minds only to interests of the 1%, its citizens sink into self-pity and claim a share of the US war profits. when Washington starts adding a new history of slow massacre of its citizens, by its exploitation and oppression, its citizens keep silent on the history of massacres by the US through the world.

> Why is Washington destroying America’s reputation as a country that respects law...
the US has committed countless massacres at home and abroad since it was a colony of the British. it has never gotten such a reputation.

> Washington has granted special privileges to Japan..to continue purchasing Iranian oil.
since 2002 the US has been pressuring Japan, who had agreed to oilfield development with Iran, to give up import of crude oil from Iran. in 2006 Japan gave in to pressure from the US to abandon most of the Azadegan oil field of Iran. in 2002 Japan imported 40 billion liters from Iran, which accounted for 16% of all crude oil import of Japan. thanks to the US pressure for a decade, it imported 18 billion liters from Iran in 2011, though it had enjoyed friendly relations with Iran before the US pressured Japan, and depends on import for almost 100% of its consumption of crude oil, and faces the difficult energy issue as a consequence of the nuclear crisis. (only one of 54 nuclear power plants in Japan is operated now.) and remember that the US, the occupier of Japan, has sheeted home 70~80% of the cost of its military bases in Japan to the Japanese. it's what you call "special privileges".

in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., the US and NATO have illegally killed lots of civilians, destroyed their houses, and forced them to be refugees by indiscriminately attacks with un-"controversial weapons". as soon as they invade and establish puppet regimes in those countries, they arm the local people with un-"controversial military equipment" made by the West and impose them to kill their fellow people, the resistance of military occupation with un-"controversial weapons" made by the West to keep the puppets in power, and enforce neoliberal policies on them, which enable Western financial institutions to make easy money and bankrupt the occupied people. Western un-"controversial exports of arms" trigger arms races and wars in the non-Western world; while propping up the Western economy. some Western internationally-renowned human-rights NGOs advocate R2P and say little about mass-killings and war crimes by the West. you look away from innumerable victims of un-"controversial weapons".

from the page: "At least three US soldiers were killed and several others wounded in a suicide bombing in northern Afghanistan as US and Afghan officials continued talks on a permanent American military presence after 2014... The Taliban claimed credit for the attack and quoted residents as saying that after the bombing US soldiers opened fire on civilians, killing one and wounding several... On Tuesday, it was reported that three foreign troops were killed in attacks, two by roadside bombs in the south and east of the country and a third in an attack by resistance forces in the east... Last Friday, nine members of the Afghan Local Police were shot and killed by one of their colleagues, reportedly a Taliban infiltrator, in the Yayakhil district of..Paktika province... A similar incident was reported on Wednesday in which a police officer in the Chardara district of Kunduz province turned his gun on the local police chief and his two bodyguards, killing them all and then fleeing... "

in exchange for money, do you accept being a liquidator, leaving your land, keeping living in polluted zone, deteriorating social foundation, living away from your family and friends, souring trusting relationships with them, deserting the community, being used your body for data gathering of health damage, abandoning the children's right to freely play in the open air, feeding them with potentially contaminated foods, troubling yourself over choosing a few opinions from various experts' ones, getting heavy stress by fighting invisible radioactive substances, and going through life fearing your and your family's health deterioration and regretting accepting nuclear? if you are a farmer (fisher), do you accept giving up growing safe crops (catching safe fish) and keeping guiltily selling contaminated foods to make your living? how much money do you claim to accept them? none can pay you the money you satisfy. I would have expected the people of Lithuania near Chernobyl to know it.

from the page: "Japan is set to jointly develop weapons with Britain following Tokyo's easing late last year of its weapons export ban, government sources said. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will agree to officially launch bilateral talks on the issue with his British counterpart David Cameron during an April 10 summit meeting in Japan. It will be the first such joint development since Japan eased its principles on its weapons export ban in December last year to open the way for the joint development and production of weapons and technology with countries with which Tokyo has security arrangements. Until then, Japan had jointly developed a missile defense (MD) system with the United States as an exception to the ban... Japan decided to cooperate with Britain in weapons development as compensation for selecting the F35 fighter developed mainly by the U.S. as its next-generation fighter rather than the Eurofighter that was strongly recommended by Britain, according to the sources.

from the page: "...in any given historical epoch, the ideas that people generally think are the best and most important ideas are usually the ideas of the people in charge, according to Marx in “Historical Materialism”. If you have a lot of money and own a lot of property, then you have the power to propagandise your worldview. It is done to protect and promote your own interests and is the natural progression in the process of accumulation of wealth and exercise of power. As such, any talk of “democracy”, “rule of law” and “human rights” is packaged to promote and protect the interests of the wealthy in their exercise of power... The greatest fear that humanity should have is that the US and its Western friends might not even be interested in any pretence of supporting democracy in the future and that they will increasingly impose their plutocracy by force... Sadly, true democracy is still very far away from visiting this world. And if the West gets its way, we will never see it. ..."

from the page: "It is a simple expression of the singular mission of anti-warriors in the belly of the beast. That mission is to disarm the beast – not to quibble with the war machine about where best to deploy its overwhelming firepower, or to advise corporate warmongers on the most efficient killing-mix of live troops and automated drones, or to pick and choose from a Democratic administration’s menu of regimes that might be changed to make the world more amenable to Wall Street. Our task as Americans – our overarching responsibility, for which we are uniquely positioned and, therefore, solemnly obligated – is to dismantle from within the monstrous apparatus of imperial aggression. Period... "

from the page: "..They pledge that they "will not be complicit with the suffering in our families," but do not express the same refusal to be complicit in the suffering of families in Afghanistan.. I accept, too, that in building a coalition that includes some labor unions that promote armaments contracts and organizations like MoveOn.org that regularly support candidates for office with decidedly pro-war agendas, silence on the threat of the military industrial congressional complex is required for the sake of unity.."--the organizers of 99% Spring and its participants are going to shout at their government and the 1%, "support the US war industries to make larger profits abroad to promote employment of Americans! give us a shares of war profits the 1% monopolize! We want to enjoy bundles of bills that the US war industries employing us and the US soldiers from us immerse in pools of non-American blood!" there're any differences between the mentality of the 1% and that of the US 99%.

> To impose a failed technology with high social and ecological costs in the name of 'science' is anti-science and anti-democracy
agree.

> The scientific community is dedicated to developing science in public interest and to understanding the safety aspects of hazardous technologies...
disagree. it's Einstein, a scientist siding with the public, who recommended Roosevelt to develop A-bombs and became anti-nuclear only after Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

> The debate..is a test case of the intense conflict..between corporate science pushing hazards and public science calling for safety.
I feel something is wrong with some scientists' sense. can one clearly discriminate "good" science from "bad" one? It takes years before knowing whether a technology ends in failure or not. some scientists, who ignore the possibility that a technology encouraged by "good" scientists becomes hazard or who think it's not their fault for producing harm, escape from facing ethical responsibility of scientists.

from the page: "..The campaign, Kony 2012, is a classic example of military disinformation. The success in tapping into the emotions of 80 million young persons has exposed its linkages to the disinformation and cyber warfare capabilities of the US defense infrastructure. Ugandans have already responded with clarity to this manipulation of the war in their society.. Disinformation and Ideological coercion of US citizens to support the military-industrial complex has been most manifest in the propaganda war over terrorism... In this disinformation blowback, we have been given a very clear window into how the military information operatives are studying ‘social media’ to ‘cleverly target’ young persons in order to lobotomize them in preparation for the era of singularity... This Kony2012 video has reinforced my own conviction that demilitarization and peace in Africa is intricately connected to demilitarization and peace in the United States.

(8)though human-beings cannot resolve the situation of Fukushima, i.e., they cannot repair those broken nuclear reactors and fuel storages, nor can they absolutely regather released radioactive substances, the Japanese government and other nuclear countries' governments (except a few countries' ones) have pretended to be able to do so to keep their nukes.
(9)most of the nuclear countries have underestimated the frequency rate of such nuclear facilities accidents that will lead to nuclear terrorism not committed by "terrorists" but caused by facilities workers' errors, design faults, lack in security features, natural disasters, etc. in other words, those countries deny the possibility that they themselves could become nuclear terrorists against their will.
(10)"fights against terror" is a myth made by the US and NATO countries which have intended to colonize the countries which are rich in natural resources and sit in the geopolitically important area.

(6)nuclear crisis of Fukushima, which is a nuclear terrorism against the world in a sense, was caused by capitalism, especially, TEPCO's policy that puts its shareholder profits ahead of all else; Japanese government's kowtow to TEPCO, the Japanese nuclear village, the nuclear superpower US, and the nuclear villages across the world; the earthquake shocks (the principal clause isn't tsunami); Japanese public blindly trust to scientists, intellectuals, academics, media, science, technology, progress, civilization, governments, and human-beings; and Japanese public indifferences to hibakushas of Japan and other countries.
(7)though nuclear plants in quake-prone Japan could lead to another Fukushima, the Japanese government and power companies with nuclear plants fully intend to reoperate them without preventive measures for such crises, while refusing to uncover the full story behind the crisis and to take their responsibilities.

(4)nuclear arms countries have endangered human-beings with their nuclear weapons, DU ordnance, nuclear vessels, and nuclear submarines, and have increased hibakushas by developing, producing, testing, using, and storing them, and have underreported their sufferings. nuclear power plants countries have endangered human-beings with their nuclear facilities, and have increased hibakushas by operating, maintaining, and dismantling them, and have underreported their sufferings. all nuclear countries have increased hibakushas not only in their own countries but in uranium, nuclear fuels, and MOX fuels production countries, which have been accomplices of increasing hibakushas and underreporting their sufferings.
(5)most of the nuclear countries governments have advanced the interests of their countries' nuclear industries, or war industries, in the name of their national security, at the expense of their national security.

exaggerations of threat of nuclear terrorism are cover-ups of the following:
(1)the US with its nuclear arms has terrified other countries into accepting its cruel and selfish demands, with the consequence that it has driven small countries to seek to nuclear development, and other nuclear arms countries have terrified no-nuke countries, too.
(2)most of the countries which exaggerate the threat of nuclear terrorism have taken part in terrorizing civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and so on.
(3)despite human-beings having no way of making spent nuclear fuels harmless and no storeroom of them for tens of thousands of years, the countries --which have had nuclear arms, have operated nuclear power plants, or have exported nuclear power plants-- have mass-produced nuclear materials in their nuclear reactors, which means that they have pushed ahead with proliferation of nuclear materials across the world and of threat of nuclear terrorism.

if the US empire, without exhaustion, had brought all Americans wealth from conquered lands, would you have approved it?

>The American empire works by stripping Americans of wealth and liberty. This is why the wars cannot end..
for decades, the US empire has extracted resources, wealth and human dignity from countries where US forces have stationed.

>Just like the bombed and murdered Muslims, the American people are victims of the American empire.
if a Japanese says that like the bombed and murdered Asians and Oceanians whose countries the Empire of Japan invaded, the Japanese were victims of the Empire of Japan, what do you think? you might underestimate sufferings of those Muslims. How about making two lists --sufferings of Americans and those of Muslims? it's true that Americans are victims of the US empire. but, just like most Japanese people at the time, most American people have made no desperate endeavor to prevent their military forces from invading other countries.

from the page: "... Al Qaeda concepts, repeated ad nauseam have potentially traumatic impacts on the human mind and the ability of normal human beings to analyze and comprehend the "real outside World" of war, politics and the economic crisis... Reference to Al Qaeda has become a dogma, a belief, which most people espouse unconditionally... The notion of Al Qaeda --"the outside enemy" which threatens Western civilization-- is predicated on "an inquisitorial doctrine"... The Al Qaeda blanket explanation not only overshadows the normal channels of human comprehension, it also precludes a move to the next step of rational explanation, which consists in saying: if Al Qaeda is "the cause" as stated in numerous press reports, then: "What is Al Qaeda?" and "Who is behind Al Qaeda?" But these are questions which in the post 9/11 era are rarely addressed. To investigate "Who is behind the terrorists" has become unmentionable, a political taboo...

from the page: "The Tao Aborigines of Lanyu (蘭嶼) — also known as Orchid Island — are once again taking to the streets to voice their opposition to a nuclear storage facility on their island, calling for its immediate removal... “We love Lanyu. We don’t want nuclear waste,” hundreds of Taos and their supporters shouted out loud as they marched on the streets of Taipei on March 11... "Taipower built the storage facility through a lie. We need to think beyond our generation, think of our children and grandchildren," she said... "Taipower contaminates our island with nuclear waste and it also contaminates our minds with money," she said. "They are trying to make us think that we cannot live without nuclear waste.”...Meanwhile, a former Tao employee of Taipower — who also spoke on condition of anonymity — said a lot of Taos depend on Taipower for jobs and are afraid of losing their jobs if they tell people what they really think."

from the page: "The United States has asked Japan to shoulder part of the costs involved in the planned transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa Prefecture... Japan's additional financial burden is expected to amount to more than $1 billion... Concerning the Guam transfer costs, the two countries agreed in 2006 that Japan will provide $6.09 billion of the total expense of $10.27 billion and that the United States will pay about $4.2 billion." --the lands, where US military bases have been located in Okinawa for decades, were grabbed from Okinawans by the US under the US military occupation of Japan. these land-grabs are against the international law, the Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land. the US, the very land-grabber and illegal occupant, is so greedy and shameless that it demands that Japan, the very victim of the US' longstanding illegal occupation, should pay the US compensations for moving its soldiers from Okinawa. this is mafia-style.

from the page: "The families of the dead received 2.3 million Afghanis ($46,000) each while the injured were paid 500,000 Afghanis at a private ceremony... The funds were provided by the US military... if the families received compensation they could be targeted by Taliban militants.."--divide and conquer. for 11 years, many afghans who were killed their families by the US joined taliban, because they learned the hard way that the US and its puppet regime are indifferent to justice and that military occupation causes another victim. in some cases, the US has put the bereaved, who have suffered extreme poverty, to silence by paying just 2,500 dollars for an Afghan's life, by way of "donations", only when the US couldn't make excuses for murdering civilians. others have been compelled to accept their fate or become the nonviolent resistance. it's the US who has mass-produced the bereaved and divided them to prevent Afghan national unity, which is the greatest obstacle for the occupation.

definition of peace talk of the US: (1)an invader breaks into a house, murders the family, steals everything, burns the family heritage, and says aiming a gun at the bereaved, "you're terrorists. I'm going to occupy this house to wait for opportunity for break-in next door. I test new guns here, and build pipelines, through which I let my plunder flow into my house. if you accept it, you can get the honor of serving for me. if not, kill you!" (2)the family of an invader say, "he's a mischievous innocent boy and sometimes plays a trick at home too. because I show tolerance to him, you must do so and share the parenting of my proud boy. ... it's not my fault for his character! I did my best. due to your tolerance, he became a murderer. because we are victims of your tolerance, you must send him home by yourself at the risk of your life, must forget everything except that we're your victims, and must pay compensation to us. then, I generously treat you not as beast but as subhuman."

from the page: "...The Afghans, including those on the U.S. payroll, repeatedly use the word “disrespect” to describe American behavior. But honest people back here in the belly of the beast know that the more accurate term is racism. The United States cannot help but be a serial abuser of the rights of the people it occupies, especially those who are thought of as non-white, because it is a thoroughly racist nation. A superpower military allows them to act out this characteristic with impunity... They know they are viewed collectively as less than human by the powers in Washington – and, if they don’t call it racism, we should, because we know our fellow Americans very well... The United States was conceived as an empire built on the labor of Blacks and the land of dead natives, an ever-expanding sphere of exploitation and plunder – energized by an abiding and general racism that is, itself, the main obstacle to establishing a lasting American anti-war movement."

from the page: "Asia and Oceania accounted for 44 per cent of global arms imports... India was the world’s largest recipient of arms, accounting for 10 per cent of global arms imports. The four next largest recipients of arms in 2007–2011 were South Korea (6 per cent of arms transfers), Pakistan (5 per cent), China (5 per cent) and Singapore (4 per cent)." --the US uses its asian "allies" as shields against china and north korea. it's like one dog making off with a bone two others are fighting over. "driven by Asian demand"? because the US and NATO members, whose arms demands are hitting a ceiling due to their deteriorating economic conditions, need "asian demand", they artificially driving "asian demand" by raising tensions in asia. as a consequence of tensions in asia, conflicts and exhaustion among asian countries will enable the US and NATO members to keep making easy money by arms-exports and getting natural resources preferentially as they always have been doing so in the past.

from the page: ".. Military officials with the NATO-led international forces have said the legal status of international soldiers is regulated in the military technical agreement between Afghanistan and the international community and 'very clearly regulates the responsibility for the legal handling of any activities of the international soldiers..."--NATO and the US, which have occupied Afghanistan illegally and blatantly disregarded the international laws, are preaching about laws. their shamelessness takes the biscuit. some sorts of agreements, SOFAs and VFAs (Visiting Forces Agreements), MTA, etc., are euphemisms for military occupation. with their overwhelming military power, the world powers force weak countries to give up their sovereignties, which go against basic principles of the UN Charter. on the authority of those INHUMANE, UNFAIR, and UNEQUAL agreements, the people of the world powers enjoy the privileges by violating human dignity of the people of weak countries.

from the page: "Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament rejected on Monday an agreement on technical and military cooperation between the Afghan government and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the Pajhwok news agency reported. The military-technical agreement between the interim government in Afghanistan and ISAF was signed in December 2001 but submitted to the lower house of Afghan parliament only in September 2011.The majority of lawmakers stated on Monday that the agreement with ISAF violated the country’s sovereignty... Under the agreement, the ISAF has complete and unimpeded freedom of movement or action throughout the territory and airspace of Afghanistan."

from the paeg: "China on Friday voiced concern over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) plan to launch a satellite in April... "We sincerely hope parties concerned stay calm and exercise restraint and avoid escalation of tension that may lead to a more complicated situation," Zhang was quoted as saying..." --launching satellite by North Korea at this time will be only used as an excuse for military expansions of the US, Japan and South Korea. war industries and warmongers of those countries, who want not to ensure their national security but to make big profits, will turn this opportunity to their advantage.

from the page: "...Clearly what is going on now in Afghanistan is not self-defense. Let's be honest. We all know it. At best this is reprisal, retaliation, vengeance, catharsis. Call it what you want, but it is not self-defense. And retaliation is never self-defense. Indeed that was the official position of the United States government even during the darkest days of the Vietnam War. Then former Undersecretary of State Eugene V. Rostow tried to get the State Department to switch their position. They refused and continued to maintain their position that retaliation is not self-defense. This is not self-defense what we are doing in Afghanistan. Since none of these justifications and pretexts hold up as a matter of law, then what the United States government today is doing against Afghanistan constitutes armed aggression. It is illegal. There is no authority for this.

from the page: "...One surviving family member said:“I don’t want any compensation. I don’t want money. I don’t want a trip to Mecca. I don’t want a house. I want nothing. But what I absolutely want is the punishment of the Americans. This is my demand, my demand, my demand and my demand.”...Afghan army head General Sher Mohammad Karimi said US military officials "ignored and blocked" his attempt to investigate the incident. They also prevented Afghan officials from interrogating Bales." In lockstep, US media scoundrels regurgitated Pentagon lies. Outrageously, the Washington Post quoted Captain Chris Alexander, Bales' platoon commander, saying he's "hands down, one of the best soldiers I ever worked with."... A Pentagon statement said Bales received over a dozen medals and badges for combat service and good conduct. His wife Karilyn was quoted, saying "all of the work Bob has done and all the sacrifices he has made for his love of his country, family and friends."..."

the US has sheeted home 70~80% of the cost of its military bases in Japan to the Japanese. e.g., its bases' construction, repair and maintenance costs, and its soldiers' and their families' housing and entertainment costs. they live much more luxuriously in Japan than the ordinary Japanese. before invading other countries, they train in those bases, destroying the living environment of Okinawans, and the Japanese government pays compensations for the horrible environment to them. Japanese taxpayers' money are also used for compensations to victims of crimes committed by US soldiers in Japan, who run into sanctuary, US bases, directly after committing crimes, and the US sends them back to the US to secure immunity from Japanese investigations and criminal trials and forces the Japanese to give up their dignity, which the US has repeated for 67 years, with the consequence that servility has taken root in the Japanese. US soldiers and their families are the privileged classes in Japan.

from the page: "..安保体制が無期限に存続する限り、自衛隊の海外における部隊展開は、半永久的に米軍の後方支援を担わされるか、それとも自衛隊員が「国際の平和と安全／安定」という「大義」の下で、米軍とNATO軍を中心とした多国籍軍の「戦略的捨て石」..。 読売は..事実上の戦闘行為ができるように法「改正」をしろ、と言っている..。「武器使用」緩和は、単年度ベースの防衛予算そのものも膨張させる..。だから防衛省は、当然にも、消極的...「戦争をたたわない自衛隊」..だからこそ入隊したという自衛隊員の比率はかなり多い... 何の責任も負わない..マスコミや学者、また自衛隊を外交の駒としか考えない外務省は好き勝手に自衛隊員を引きまわす..。
「防災＝国防戦略」を論じるものが一つとして見当たらない.. 腐敗した南スーダンの現政権を支えるために南スーダンの武装勢力が戦うことが、今自衛隊に問われていることではないはずだ。自衛隊に求められているのは..国内における「防災」を担いえる装備の拡充と技術の向上..。
自衛隊基地が米軍の思惑次第でいつでも「共同使用」できるようになる..「共同使用」は在日米軍の永久駐留を誤魔化すためのトリック..

from the page: "I and other Veterans For Peace from Long Island will be lobbying members of Congress first to educate them regarding what is problematic, irresponsible, and even dangerous about Senate Resolution S. RES. 380 and its counterpart in the House H. RES. 568. Then, we will encourage our Legislators to introduce and sponsor what I perhaps hubristically term the “People’s Resolution" as a more sane and efficient alternative response to the Iranian “crisis.”"

from the page: ""Would you please help the Mongolian people who know nothing about the plan. Mongolia is friendly to Japan, Japanese media certainly has influence on the country," the [US nuclear] expert said... Experts share the view that nuclear plants cannot be built in areas without water. I repeatedly asked Mongolian officials responsible for nuclear power policy how they can build nuclear plants at the sites without water. However, they only emphasized that all the three sites meet the safety standards for nuclear plants set by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). An Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry official, who is familiar with Mongolian affairs, said, "Mongolians are smart but their knowledge of atomic energy isn't that good ..." In other words, Japan and the United States proposed to build a spent nuclear waste disposal facility in Mongolia, a country that has little knowledge of nuclear energy. .."

why did this writer use a word "killed"? who did kill turk soldiers? if the turk government had not sent them to Afghanistan, neither those 12 solders nor those two afghan civilians would have been "killed".
what's a short sentence the writer wrote for Afghan civilian deaths! the media of the occupying countries regard only the occupying people deaths as disasters, and the occupied people ones as minor.

> Turkey’s mission in Afghanistan is limited to patrols and its soldiers do not take part in combat operations... public opinion in Turkey has been less critical about having troops in Afghanistan due to their non-combat role.
if all the accomplices of occupying Afghanistan which don't join combat operations, including my country japan, had stopped supporting occupation, the US, NATO and UN couldn't have kept it. if they want to support not occupying Afghanistan but Afghanistan, they should get out of ISAF and apply a go-it-alone policy to support it.

from the page: "According to an IEA report, released on Wednesday, both Seoul and New Delhi sharply raised their oil purchases from Iran in January."

from the page: "The Wolesi Jirga’s, or lower house of Parliament, delegation investigating the Kandahar shootings by US troops said besides killing 16 civilians, the soldiers sexually assaulted them... MP Hamidzai Lali, representing Kandahar province and a delegation member, said before the gun attack, US soldiers physically manhandled the two women and later turned their weapons on the helpless residents. Shakiba Hashami, another delegation member, confirmed the vicious attack, adding about 15 to 20 American soldiers were involved in the killings and even helicopters were seen hovering the areas. Quoting local residents, Hashami, said ahead of the Sunday tragedy, there was a blast in the area and foreign troops had warned of revenge killings. The Afghan Parliamentarians strongly condemned the incident and demanded a public trial for the perpetrators."