US-NATO knows the game is up in Afghanistan and all that's left to play for is to find a way of dressing up defeat as "success" and "progress" and declaring "victory" as they leave.

Whoever pushed the button and the US government officials who gave the orders to kill 175 children should be brought to trial: that is, the CIA's Stephen Preston and his boss, President Barack Obama.

What else is ten years of the United States extinguishing the lives of innocent men, women, teenagers and young children in Muslim countries but murder?

The UN report in July which said only 14% of civilians were killed by the US-led occupation forces and the rest by "insurgents" is a gross underestimate say independent observers.

Is the legalisation of rape in marriage, the death of one in 11 women in pregnancy or childbirth, and the malnourishment of 39% of Afghan children what liberation in Afghanistan is meant to look like?

The worse it gets for the occupation, the more they have to lie, which is why we're told that anyone killed or captured by the US-led occupation is a Taliban 'leader'.

Our politicians have lied and misled, our journalists have failed, but they remain 'our' journalists, 'our' politicians, 'our' laws, 'our' army, and 'our' planes. So what do we do?

A child's basic right to life and development is seriously compromised by growing up in the context of war and occupation in Afghanistan.

Jeremy Corbyn MP, who has recently been elected National Chair of Stop the War Coalition, reflects on ten years of the campaign to oppose government war policies.

The intensity of the ten-year-old war is growing and U.N. figures show the Afghan government and its Western allies are further than ever from a solid grip on security.

Had there been no invasion of Afghanistan by the US and its allies on 7 October 2001, Pakistan would not be in the dreadful situation in which it now finds itself.

The bomb in a turban that killed Afghanistan's former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, also killed America's plan to make a deal with the Taliban as a way to get out of a war that is going nowhere.

Afghans are protesting across the country against US "kill-or-capture" night raids: "They claim to be against terrorists but what they are doing is terrorism. It spreads terror. It creates more violence.”

Serving US lieutenant-colonel says there is a huge disconnect between Pentagon propaganda and the reality in Afghanistan as faced by troops on the ground.

The Lemming Syndrome makes Obama describe the US casualties as "lost," "fallen," or "ultimate sacrifice", instead of the hard truth: they're dead and he is responsible for snuffing out their young lives.

If Richard Falk is right, the anti-war movement in the US and Britain has much work to do yet, whatever promises Obama and Cameron make about getting out of Afghanistan by 2015.