Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Monday, December 20, 2010

OPINION: Asylum-seeker shame rises for some political pundits

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Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the United States embassy in Canberra last November. And to be sitting there watching and listening...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

COMMENT:So what on earth do we do with Afghanistan?

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A British Army doctor named Henry Walter Bellew wrote these words after spending a fair bit of time in Kandahar and Kabul: Now that our armi...
Friday, July 30, 2010

CRIKEY: Welcome to the US of Hey, that’s a lot of security

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What do you get when you build your intelligence service up to such a size that it occupies three times the floorspace as the main centre of...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

OPINION: Refugee Hysteria Suggests Aussies Have Forgotten Their Own Ancestors

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YOU can always tell when Australia has entered election mode. Suddenly the really big issues come to the fore - issues that affect the econo...
Friday, May 28, 2010

OPINION: Rising trend of fearmongering on refugees and passports ...

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Coalition rhetoric now appears to slipping back to the worst practices of the Howard era, IRFAN YUSUF writes ... Tony Abbott wasn’t exactly ...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

AFGHANISTAN: Rudd government celebrates the changed circumstances ...

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Australia's Immigration Minister has unilaterally announced that the situation in Afghanistan is changing for the better. Wonderful. N...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

VIDEO: Rabiye Kadeer's call to settle remaining Uighur Guantanamo detainees ...

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Exiled World Uighur Congress leader Rabiye Kadeer told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday: All of the Uighurs in Albania, Bermuda...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

FILM: Pakistan's first English-language feature movie in 3 decades ...

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With all this media frenzy over the Taliban and terrorism in the combined "Af-Pak" territory (as if Afghanistan and Pakistan have ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

OPINION: Repressive rule losing lustre in Iran?

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It's not often the leader of the free world publicly acknowledges his country sabotaged the democracy of another country. Yet this is ...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

VIDEO: US troops handed out Bibles in both Iraq and Afghanistan ...

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What's the big deal with a bit of evangelism? Better a Bible than vicious dogs at your testicles, I say. Except that handing out Bibles ...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

AFGHANISTAN/VIDEO: US troops caught out evangelising among Afghans?

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US troops are caught with resources to convert Afghan locals to Christianity. This is a serious development. The video footage below was tak...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

COMMENT: Border Insecurity ...

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The letters section of the Daily Telegraph of Friday 24 April 2009 has two typical examples of uninformed hysteria concerning the issue of ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

VIDEO/AFGHANISTAN: Alarming rise in Afghan civilian casualties ...

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The United States are sending more troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and prop up Afghanistan's Islamist government. But what of...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

COMMENT: Afghanistan - here's a thought ...

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Nadeem Aslam is an English writer of Pakistani heritage. He wrrived with his family in Pakistan when he was just 14 years old. His family ha...
Sunday, March 01, 2009

VIDEO/AFGHANISTAN: Secret talks between Karzai government and Taliban ...

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While Australian and NATO troops are engaged in fierce fighting against the Taliban, the US-backed Islamist government of Hamid Karzai is se...
Monday, February 23, 2009

CRIKEY: Mafia scandal should make O'Farrell and Turnbull very nervous ...

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Well it’s been a bad few weeks for the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party. Brendan Nelson decided to POQ, his parting message to many of hi...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

LETTERS/CRIKEY: Exchange of correspondence on Afghanistan and Charlie Wilson's war ...

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Some readers might recall a piece I wrote for Crikey last December (reproduced here ) about the continuing conflict in Afghanistan and it...
Friday, December 19, 2008

CRIKEY: Charlie Wilson's prophecy comes true ...

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Our military campaign in Afghanistan involves allying ourselves with thugs who may be tomorrow’s bin-Ladins, writes Irfan Yusuf ... In the ...
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