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Indigenous peoples from 12 countries have called for a continental mobilization on June 21, 2011 in defense of life and the full exercise of their rights under the impact of mining, according to a statement released today in Lima.

About a hundred indigenous leaders from Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru and South Africa also agreed to provide a continental platform of struggle against mining policy, to which opposed to cause pollution in the territory they occupy. Read the rest of this entry »

Western countries begin early next year abandonment of Afghanistan in a withdrawal that will take about three years. And will end with a resounding failure from the strategic standpoint, the policy has not been able to ever win this war, tactical and military troops arrived with a great lack of land and a surprising ignorance of history – and loss of human lives since the conflict has killed tens of thousands of civilians. The balance of the war launched by the United States in 2001 under the pompous name of Operation Enduring Freedom with the backing of the United Nations, and that was to find Osama bin Laden, today is not satisfactory to anyone, and little has served that NATO took over in 2003 and tried to give an image of a multinational force in the conflict. Long ago that Western societies no longer believe in the invasion of Afghanistan and began to wonder how it was possible to gain positions away from just the opposite happened.

Today the situation is quite alarming, as tribal leaders have come to completely dominate the area, as there is a territory that can be considered absolute total control of NATO. Even the capital, Kabul, has never been a city under the authority minimally West. The home, although the formula view of new destinations for the troops, it will be a release for all governments that have staff in the area. In Spain, where like so little to talk about international politics if not to stop fighting the two major parties, the contribution has killed nearly a hundred people. Many like to do a reflection.