The Afghan puppet government is crumbling before our eyes. We must talk to the Taliban By William Dalrymple Last updated at 11:08 AM on 18th June 2010 Comments (1) Add to My Stories In the final part of this fascinating dispatch from Afghanistan, WILLIAM DALRYMPLE says that after nine years of war at a cost [...]
‘Discovery’ of Afghan riches a pro-war PR scam? By Daniel Tencer Monday, June 14th, 2010 — 7:57 pm Stumble This! Share 6diggsdigg A New York Times report announcing the US has found $1 trillion-worth of mineral deposits in Afghanistan has some observers wondering if the news is part of a public-relations effort to bolster support [...]
June 8th, 2010 As long as you don’t count the Cold War, but never mind all of that. Via: ABC News: The Afghan war was enormously popular when it began on a fall Sunday eight and a half years ago. Less than a month had passed since the September 11 attacks, and President Bush could [...]
Falling Off the $1 Trillion Cliff We’re headed for an ugly cliff this Sunday. At 10 a.m. on May 30, all of those little cost of war counters that have been furiously spinning away on countless websites will cross the $1 trillion mark. No alarm will sound. No bell will ring. But, on the day [...]
The Pentagon’s Fantasy Numbers on Afghan Civilian Deaths by Marc W. Herold Global Research, April 19, 2010 “The American public is conditionally tolerant of [military] casualties and consistently indifferent to collateral damage” Dr. Karl P. Mueller, School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base The Politics of Counting Dead Afghan Civilians: Responses by the [...]
Opium and the CIA: Can the US Triumph in the Drug-Addicted War in Afghanistan? Japan Focus – 2010-04-05 by Prof Peter Dale Scot Alfred McCoy’s important new article (TomDispatch, posted on Global Research, April 5, 2010) deserves to mobilize Congress for a serious revaluation of America’s ill-considered military venture in Afghanistan. The answer to the [...]
Wikileaks leaked video of Civilians killed in Baghdad – Full video Published on 04-05-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: WikiLeaks.org WHR / Mike Rivero Commentary Below: WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news [...]
McChrystal Admits U.S. Troops are Killing Innocent Afghans at Checkpoints Published on 04-05-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: All Gov. America’s top commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, continues to struggle with the problem of U.S. troops shooting innocent citizens at checkpoints or near passing convoys. During a virtual town hall meeting with U.S. [...]
Not just opium: UN says Afghanistan now world’s largest hashish producer Published on 04-01-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: RawStory Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium, has also become a major source for cannabis, overtaking Morocco as the top producer of hashish, the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime said Wednesday. “While other countries [...]
US Military decides that Afghan lives are worth up to $2,500 By Andrew Steele February 23, 2010 How much money is a human life worth? In Afghanistan it can range from $1500-$2500, the value of a few paychecks for the average worker here in the United States. According to The Washington Post, US Army units now fighting in the Helmand province [...]
NYT ‘Mystery’ Op-Ed Calls for More Afghan Civilian Deaths by Robert Naiman CommonDreams.org, February 20, 2010 On Thursday the New York Times made an astonishing editorial choice, for which its editors owe the public an explanation: it published an op-ed by an obscure and poorly identified author attacking General Stanley McChrystal for his directive last [...]
Dutch government falls over Afghanistan No comment from NATO chief By Christopher King 21 February 2010 Christopher King expresses the hope that the fall of the Dutch government over participation in the US-led aggression in Afghanistan could be the start of a trend that will see Europe regain its independence from the USA. Hopefully the [...]
Stop NATO by Rick Rozoff In parallel with the escalation of the war in South Asia – counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and drone missile attacks in Pakistan – the United States and its NATO allies have laid the groundwork for increased naval, air and ground operations in the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of [...]
Afghanistan: Shooting Handcuffed Children After Downing Street – 2010-01-02 by David Swanson The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead. While this apparently constitutes an everyday act of kindness, far [...]
Top NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal calls training local soldiers and cops “our main effort” in Afghanistan. But whipping recruits into shape is a whole lot harder when they’re stoned out of their minds. “You walk into a whole squad of ANA [Afghan National Army] smoking hashish. They don’t understand that the use of drugs, [...]
