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Waste Effort: US ghost cash flushed down Afghan drain
Posted by smeddum on January 9, 2011
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US begins troop surge in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
6th January, 2011
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to send an additional 1,400 marines to Afghanistan, the first series of which could begin arriving on the ground as early as mid January.
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NATO politics driving Afghan war
Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2011
Gareth Porter
5th January, 2011
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The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.
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Afghanistan: Opium, the CIA and the Karzai Administration
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2010
Peter Dale Scott
13th December, 2010
According to Peter Dale Scott, there is no point in deploring the expansion of drug production in Afghanistan and the heroin epidemic gripping great parts of the world. Conclusions must be drawn from the established facts: the Taliban eradicated poppy cultivation; NATO promoted it; drug money corrupted the Karzai government but it is especially inside U.S. institutions that drug corruption is rife. Therefore, the solution does not lie with Kabul but with Washington.
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Have (infinite) war, will travel
Posted by seumasach on November 17, 2010
Pepe Escobar
18th November, 2010
Anyone aware enough to think that Washington’s goal is not to “win” the unwinnable AfPak quagmire but to keep playing its bloody infinite war game forever is now eligible for a personal stimulus package (in gold).
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Petraeus: Karzai’s Criticism ‘Undermining’ War
Posted by smeddum on November 15, 2010
US Commander Expressed ‘Astonishment and Disappointment’ at Call to End Night Raids
by Jason Ditz, November 14, 2010
Antiwar.com
Top US Commander in Afghanistan General David Petraeus reportedly responded with “astonishment and disappointment” today after learning that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had criticized the US war effort, calling for them to scale back the offensive and end the practice of night raids, which has killed large numbers of Afghan civilians. Read the rest of this entry »
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How the wars are sinking the economy
Posted by smeddum on November 1, 2010
Linda Bilmes
31st October, 2010
Nobel Prize recipient Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard budget guru Linda J. Bilmes are revising their original $3 trillion war cost estimate. As Bilmes reports, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are at least 25 percent costlier than previous projections.
As Election Day draws near, it’s pretty clear: Voters are worried about jobs, the budget deficit and the rising national debt. Read the rest of this entry »
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NATO invites Russia to join Afghan fray
Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2010
By making the US dependent on her in Afghanistan, Russia is defanging the US. At the same, on its western flank, Russia pursues the greatest prize of all, prizing Europe out of the Atlanticist block- the final piece in the multipolar jigsaw.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
28th October, 2010
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials have revealed their proposal with Moscow regarding a vastly stepped up Russian involvement in the Afghan war is in the final stages of negotiation and they are hopeful of formal agreement being reached at the alliance’s two-day summit in Lisbon from November 19.
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Karzai: Blackwater behind terrorism
Posted by seumasach on October 25, 2010
It’s so desperate for the axis powers as their closest allies turn against them. The BBC is trying to counterattack with this story. Oh dear, oh dear! It’s all so hopeless.
25th October, 2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are being behind terrorism in the country.
At a press conference in Kabul, Karzai said that US security companies have been behind explosions that have claimed the lives of women and children.
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Woodward exposes CIA Army’s atrocities in Pakistan
Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2010
Justin Elliot
The CIA calls it its elite Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Pakistanis face it as the TTP. The CIA calls it Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Pakistan see them as bombs blowing u in mosques and hospitals. The CIA sees its army killing “terrorists”, Pakistanis face an unending killing of its civilians.
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Carryings on up the Khyber Pass
Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2010
Syed Saleem Shahzad
5th October, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Hawkish anti-American elements in Pakistan’s military prevailed on pro-United States army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kiani to close a key North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) supply route in Pakistan in a move that signals a possible ominous deterioration in relations between Islamabad and Washington.
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