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America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan

America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan
By F. William Engdahl
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October 21, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two [...]

Afghanistan – The Proxy War

Afghanistan – The Proxy War
By Andrew J. Bacevich
October 12, 2009 “Boston Globe” — No serious person thinks that Afghanistan – remote, impoverished, barely qualifying as a nation-state – seriously matters to the United States. Yet with the war in its ninth year, the passions raised by the debate over how to proceed there are serious [...]

U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan’s History

U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan’s History
Rick Rozoff

Over the past week U.S. newspapers and television networks have been abuzz with reports that Washington and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition to the 17,000 new American and several thousand NATO [...]

Undercounting deaths of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan

Undercounting deaths of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Contractor deaths are rarely reported
by Bernd Debusmann Reuters – 2009-09-10

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – By most counts, the death toll of U.S. soldiers in America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan stood at 5,157 in the second week of September. Add at least 1,360 private [...]

‘Taliban hold sway over in 97% of Afghanistan’

Trend
A policy research group says the Taliban have a significant presence in almost every corner of Afghanistan, eight years after their overthrow by US-led forces, Press TV reported.
A security map by the London-based International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) showed a deepening security crisis with substantial Taliban activity in at least 97 percent of [...]

Archbishop Tutu: “Arabs paying the price of Germany’s crimes”

Archbishop Tutu: “Arabs paying the price of Germany’s crimes”

Saed Bannoura – IMEMC

August 28, 2009
In an Interview with Haaretz newspaper, Archbishop Desmond Tutu stated that Israel must learn from the Holocaust that it cannot gain security thought fences, walls and guns.
Archbishop Tutu was commenting of statement made [...]

Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency RAMA Is ‘to destabilize Pakistan’

by Jeremy R. Hammond Foreign Policy Journal – 2009-08-12

In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy Journal, retired Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul responds to charges that he supports terrorism, discusses 9/11 and ulterior motives for the war on Afghanistan, claims that the U.S., Israel, and India are behind efforts to destabilize Pakistan, and charges [...]

Secret deal to keep Karzai in power

Source: Independent
With less than two weeks to go until national elections, the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is trying to cut a secret deal with one of his rivals to knock out his leading contender and ensure a decisive victory to avoid the chaos that a tight result might unleash.
Afghanistan’s second democratic polls threaten to split [...]

July in Afghanistan: A Month of Worsts

UN Revelation About Rising Civilian Toll Just the Latest Bad News
by Jason Ditz, July 31, 2009

A United Nations report today cautioned that the eight year long war in Afghanistan is increasingly taking place in residential neighborhoods, with both the Taliban insurgency and the international forces killing enormous numbers of civilians as they duke it [...]

Obama’s Afghan War, the US Media, and the UN: the New Metric of Civilian Casualties

By Prof. Marc W. Herold

By Eneko in Diagonal Periódico.
June 12, 2009
During 2009, seven out of ten civilians killed by the Obama and NATO military machines have been women and children. Clearly, the Obama regime has failed on the metric of civilian casualties.
A tacit agreement operates between [...]

Rumsfeld’s renegade unit blamed for Afghan deaths

Special Forces group implicated in three incidents that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians / MarSOC was set up by former defence secretary despite opposition from within the Marine Corps
By Jerome Starkey in Kabul

Saturday, 16 May 2009

A single American Special Forces group was behind at least three of Afghanistan’s worst civilian casualty incidents, [...]

Former Obama Advisor and CFR VP says 100,000 Troops, 10+ more years needed in Afghanistan

The End Run
On the evening of March 19, 2009, Lawrence Korb spoke at the University of Pittsburgh (video at the end of this article).
Korb was the Vice President of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) from 1998-2002. He was also the CFR’s director of National Security Studies during that same period. From 1985-1986 he was [...]

Obama’s Disastrous Afghan Plan by Ann Robertson

by Ann Robertson

Global Research, April 1, 2009

Last month President Barack Obama announced the deployment of 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, raising the total there to 53,000, only to add an additional 4,000 training troops this past week.  Questions of a possible quagmire have begun to sprout faster than opium poppies.
In an attempt to disarm [...]

Obama to Bring More Mercenaries to Afghanistan — Sound Familiar?

by Jim Hightower

Global Research, March 28, 2009

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Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to war we go!
As President Barack Obama begins winding down the Bush war in Iraq, he is building up his own war farther east. We’re told that it will be a new, expanded, extra-special American adventure in Afghanistan, involving a vigorous surge strategy [...]

Financial fix? Abolish the Fed, says congressman

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul

In just recent weeks, the federal government has designated billions of tax dollars for bank bailouts, including vast quantities to quasi-government agencies that helped create the economic crisis; billions more for automakers, and billions more for homeowners who default on their loans, so where will [...]

A New Afghanistan Nightmare

When US envoy to Afghanistan , Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan ’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may have just learned of the historic significance of the following day. February 15 commemorates the end of the bloody Russian campaign against Afghanistan (August 1978-February 1989).
But it is unlikely that Holbrooke [...]

Cheney on Finding Bin Laden:Well, we’ve got a few days left yet,

This Dick gets to write history?

Pressed on some of the foreign policy missteps and shortcomings of the Bush administration, Dick Cheney, even with just days to go in his time in public office, pleaded for more time.
Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer why President Bush had been unable to “capture or kill [Osama] bin Laden or [...]

CIA, Heroin Still Rule Day in Afghanistan

Afghanistan now supplies over 90 percent of the world’s heroin, generating nearly $200 billion in revenue. Since the U.S. invasion on Oct. 7, 2001, opium output has increased 33-fold (to over 8,250 metric tons a year).
The U.S. has been in Afghanistan for over seven years, has spent $177 billion in that country alone, and has [...]

Afghan leader vows punishment for deadly US raid

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Afghan president said a deadly raid on a village by American and Afghan commandos has put new strain on relations with the United States and promised Thursday to punish those responsible.
U.S. officials have said that at least 30 militants, including a Taliban commander, and no more than seven civilians were killed [...]