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Time For Peace

With the Iraq war inquiry underway the evidence heard confirms that it was based on lies and deception. Even the most naïve voter must now understand that the creepily sanctimonious…

December 14, 2009 / Comments Off / Read More

Afghan war grinds towards defeat

Despite shed loads of evidence of vote rigging and other malpractice as I write, the signs were that victory is about to be declared for the current Afghan President Karzai…

September 18, 2009 / Comments Off / Read More

Afghanistan – how many more will die ?

All the news agencies bring us the same story this summer, repeated day after day after day. ‘Another British soldier[s] has been killed in Afghanistan. The soldier belonging to [such…

September 4, 2009 / Comments Off / Read More

Afghan surge signposts disaster

Amidst dire predictions of slaughter and death the US and its allies, in the aftermath of 9/11, invaded Afghanistan. Initially the critics appeared to have been wrong as the Taliban…

April 17, 2009 / Comments Off / Read More

Slavery in the 21st century

In 1995, 12 year old Iqbal was murdered in Pakistan under mysterious circumstances. Shootings are an everyday occurrence in Pakistan. But this murder was different because Iqbal was one of…

December 13, 2001 / Comments Off / Read More

Leave us in peace

Dr Quasim is the director of the English language department of an Afghan college in Peshawar, in the North West Frontier Province. A polite, friendly man in his mid thirties,…

November 30, 2001 / Comments Off / Read More

While in Pakistan Alan McCombes was privileged to meet socialists from the Afghan Revolutionary Labour Organisation. They work under the most oppressive conditions and amongst indescribable poverty, faced daily with…

November 16, 2001 / Comments Off / Read More

Bombs are driving youth into the arms of Bin Laden

Lahore is one of the most overcrowded cities in the world, with over 100,000 people per square mile. This compares with 1000 people per square mile in Glasgow and Edinburgh.…

November 16, 2001 / Comments Off / Read More