Afghanistan Follow

While the British and US governments may admit to "difficulties" in Iraq, they continue to try and sell the invasion of Afghanistan as "the good war".

Another week, and another six young British soldiers lie dead in the mire of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The kidnap of 23 South Korean missionaries in Afghanistan is a tragedy, but the events can only be understood in the context of the deployment of South Korean troops to aid the US/Nato occupation.

Occupation forces in Afghanistan have admitted that they are regularly killing civilians in bombings raids when they say are targetting Taliban fighters.

Gordon Brown sent a clear message this week to all those who have despaired of the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and hoped that he would stand up to George Bush and bring the troops home.

There is tide of change against the war among the families of US soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A parliamentary committee has rung alarm bells over Afghanistan, warning that the occupation faces defeat unless the war is escalated.

"We now have almost no capability to react to the unexpected... I am very concerned about the longer term implications of the impact of this level of operations on our people, equipment and future operational capability."General Sir Richard Dannatt, head of the British army, in a secret memo revealing the impact of Iraq and Afghanistan on the British military

If you lie through your teeth and unleash hell on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan you receive a standing ovation in parliament and are appointed "peacemaker for the Middle East".

Who will the Bush gang bomb next? Tony Blair and his government have backed US president George Bush's war in Afghanistan to the hilt. But even some sections of New Labour are worried about his plans to spread his war to Iraq, Somalia or any other country the US decides is a "rogue state".

In Iraq and Afghanistan the bloody toll is still rising as the daily brutality and terror of war and occupation continues.

The political landscape is starting to change around the anti-war movement. The departure of Tony Blair from office much earlier than he would have preferred - itself the result of the catastrophe in Iraq and the consistent campaigning of the movement - creates a new situation.