A bomb attack near a major US base in Afghanistan left at least one US trooper and 13 insurgents dead, officials said Tuesday, and later..
Ten French soldiers have been killed in fighting with Taliban insurgents east of the Afghan capital, an Afghan military official said today.
The soldiers, part of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), [...]

Short film, by Comrade Ady, covering the protests organized by Stop the War Coalition over the last two years - from the 100,000 strong protest over Blair’s support for Israel’s war on Lebanon to the protest against the visit of George W Bush in June 2008…

From the Daily News Egypt…
Egypt sent a delegation to Iraq this week to check the diplomatic compounds and examine the technical, managerial and security aspects of reopening an embassy in Baghdad.
Cairo closed down its embassy in 2005 after its ambassador to Baghdad Ihab A-Sharif was kidnapped and killed in 2005.
Egypt is one of several Arab [...]

From AFP…
Three US-led coalition soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the force said, taking to 17 the number of international troops to die in the country this month.
The coalition did not give the nationalities of the soldiers or specify where they were killed in southern Afghanistan, which has seen some [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
The US government has spent at least $85 billion on private contractors during the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath, a government review has said.
About 20 per cent of money spent for operations in Iraq has gone to contractors, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said.
At present there are at least 190,000 contractors in Iraq [...]

From Socialist Worker…
The outbreak of war in the Caucasus over the past week has stunned the world. More fighting, more bombing, thousands dead and tens of thousands of refugees are the daily scenes on our television screens.
This is not just a “little local difficulty” between Russia and Georgia. It is part of a drive to [...]

From Reuters…
A significant number of U.S. veterans back from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan begin abusing alcohol after returning, perhaps to cope with traumatic memories of combat, military researchers said on Tuesday.
Younger servicemen and women, those who were previously heavy drinkers, and call-ups from the National Guard and Reserves were the most likely to increase [...]

Immortal Technique…

From AP…
As of Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, at least 4,134 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,362 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s [...]

John Reed, “The Unpopular War,” Seven Arts, August 1917, interviewing a group of Council of National Defense officials about the US involvement in an ensuing unpopular World War… One of them…
The aviation enthusiast spoke up, lying on his back and blowing expensive cigar smoke at the ceiling.
“Do you know what is needed? Only one thing–the [...]