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Editorial: No name

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | July - August 2008

There were many acts of remembrance around the country when the hundredth British soldier was killed in Afghanistan, names of the dead were read out. ...

Maya Evans' diary

by Maya Evans | Comment | July - August 2008

Through the dregs of late shoppers I could spot members of Hastings Against War loosely congregated in the pedestrian area of the town centre. ...

Taliban

by Andrea D'Cruz | News | May 2008

Defence Secretary Des Browne announced on 29 March that Britain should be willing to talk to the Taliban and consider negotiating with elements of the organisation. ...

Editorial

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | March 2009

Elsewhere in this issue we report the significant progress made by government propaganda in relation to the war in Afghanistan. ...

Government winning public support for Afghan war

by Alan Gray | News | April 2008

British public support for the war on Afghanistan has risen over the past two years, as Afghan political leaders call for negotiations with the Taliban. ...

Paul Gilroy & Stuart Hall, 'Black Britain: A Photographic History' and Antonio Giustozzi, 'Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan'

by Gabriel Carlyle | Review | March 2008

Saqi Books, 2007; ISBN: 978- 0863565403; £19.99. Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan, Hurst, 2007; ISBN: 978-1850658733 pp. 259; £16.99

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Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls, 'Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence' and Leo Docherty, 'Desert of Death: A Soldier's Journey from Iraq to Afghanistan'

by Gabriel Carlyle | Review | October 2007

Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence, Seven Stories Press, 2006; ISBN 1 583227 31 8; 336pp; £10.99. Desert of Death: A Soldier's Journey from Iraq to Afghanistan, Faber and Faber, 2007; 208pp; ISBN 0 5712 3 688 X; £14.99

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Christian war maker

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | September 2007

Gordon Brown is succeeding with his first great spin campaign, appearing to distance himself from the aggressive policies of his predecessor while at the same time escalating his two wars in Iraq a ...

Pain gain

News in Brief | May 2007

Reports have suggested that Tony Blair is considering the legalisation of poppy production in Afghanistan to undercut the Taliban, reduce the production of heroin - and produce painkilling opiates ...

Editorial: Unfinished business

by Ippy D | Comment | September - November 2004

It is hard to believe that, just ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, new reports of massacres against Tutsis by Hutus have started coming in. ...