UK Afghanistan Newswire Archive
Send cards of support to Maya Evans, jailed anti-war activist
29-02-2012 16:20
Maya Evans Jailed for Afghan War Protest
29-02-2012 16:11
Report of Barclays Picket - Divest from Israel and the arms trade
26-02-2012 21:38
www.smashedo.org.uk/target-barclays.htmTheresa May and Al-Qaeda's "Assurances"
26-02-2012 10:35
The following article discusses the current approach of the British Government in dealing with terror suspects.Down The Drones Conference Bristol
14-02-2012 23:58
Silence Can DESTROY – April 2nd 2012
11-02-2012 17:12
Smash EDO Press Release -John Catt challenges police surveillance
10-02-2012 11:45
Routine repression of Smash EDO activists continues
10-02-2012 10:47
Anne Perry's World War I ...Echoes Still In Afghanistan
08-02-2012 21:53
Anne Perry''s book Shoulder The Sky and others of her over 60 books are understated litanies of the suffering of World War I, written without preaching or opining. They serve as a mirror for the atrocities of present wars. Perry lives on the Eastern coast of Scotland.Peace News Winter Appeal aid delivered to Afghanistan
02-02-2012 17:48
January is always a desperate time of year for the occupants of the Chamne Babak refugee camp in Kabul. Temperatures at night drop to well below freezing and the little work that the men in the camp can find dries up as the snow begins to fall. This year however some relief was delivered thanks to the readers of Peace News and members of the National Union of Journalists at the Financial Times.Afghanistan Behind the Headlines: Stories from the Grassroots
02-02-2012 17:43
Slide talk and film screening by photojournalist Guy Smallman, recently returned from Afghanistan. With ex-soldier Ben Griffin.Maya Evans Afghanistan Speaking Tour Begins this Saturday (4 February)
02-02-2012 17:34
Activist Maya Evans, who spent Xmas in Kabul on a peace delegation with Voices for Creative Nonviolence and the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers, begins her UK speaking tour this Saturday (4 February) with a talk at Housmans bookshop in London: 7pm, 5 Caledonian Rd, N1 9DX (tube: King's Cross).Other events are already booked for Glasgow, Helensburgh, Edinburgh, Stirling, Darlington, Stroud and Faringdon.
The Christmas Season, the War on Afghanistan, the War on the Poor
23-12-2011 11:01
In the 1990's Kathy Kelly, who had served U.S. Federal Prison time for nonviolent resistance to U.S. nuclear weapons & the wars on Central America initiated the (Iraq) sanctions busting "Voices in the Wilderness". Today, along with the Kabul based Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers she is involved in anti-war outreach in Afghanistan.Afghanistan: ISAF kills 3 women
01-12-2011 12:28
Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan
18-10-2011 14:16
Imagine Britain had been invaded and occupied by armed forces from another region of the world with China, for example, as a significant 'partner' in the 'coalition'. Imagine tens of thousands of Britons had been killed, and millions had fled as refugees. This is how the Chinese state broadcaster might report the invasion ten years hence:
'It's ten years this week since Chinese forces first became involved in Britain, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for south-east England. So what's been achieved in that time?'
UK tabloid: Shocking revelation on 10th anniversary of the war on Afghanistan
09-10-2011 12:50
USA: thrill killings in Afghanistan
25-09-2011 09:13
Charter to Afghanistan/ Trouble in Harmondsworth IRC
21-09-2011 20:59
Afghan man put on charter flight is said to have been badly injuried in Harmondsworth IRC, other Afghan nationals protested and were attacked by police with dogs