Afghanistan
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Afghanistan: Elections Leading to Quagmire By Victor KORGUN
Afghanistan’s way to the elections was long and marked with heightened expectations. The population hoped for a breakthrough as it was getting increasingly obvious that Karzai’s administration was unable to rise to the challenges facing the country plagued by the lack of security, rampant crime, poor governance, widespread corruption, unemployment, miserable living standards, drug business,… Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Where Empires Go to Die By Dahr Jamail
On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – Terrorism “suspect” talking with Karzai
It’s unclear how lists, identifying former GITMO detainees as “returned terrorists,” are made? Continue reading
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Unfit for Combat By Dahr Jamail
The shocking story of a soldier killing five of his comrades does not come as a surprise when we consider that the military has, for years now, been sending troops with untreated PTSD back into the US occupation of Iraq. Continue reading
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Video: Osama bin Laden was US operator: President Asif Ali Zardari
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto’s government back in 1989. Continue reading
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Frédéric Bobin, “Antonio Giustozzi, Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science: ‘The New Afghan Taliban Are Waging a Real Guerrilla War’”
these ‘Neo-Taliban’ are waging a real guerrilla war. This was not the case with their elders. Before conquering Kabul in the autumn of 1996, the first generation was a simple, ill-organized militia. Then, after taking power, it attempted to build an army. There never was a real guerrilla experience in that period. The situation changed… Continue reading
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Video – US strike in Afghanistan kills dozens
HERAT: Afghan villagers yesterday mourned relatives buried in mass graves after US-led airstrikes that the Red Cross said killed dozens and local officials said may have killed 100 civilians. Continue reading
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Jamal Dajani, “Pakistan: Who’s to Blame?”
Pakistan is on a precipice. The Swat Valley, once called the Switzerland of Pakistan for its great natural beauty, is now the Taliban’s battle ground for Islamic fundamentalism where harsh Islamic (shari’a) law is imposed on the population and fully sanctioned by the Pakistani government. Continue reading
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These Colors Won’t Run… Afghanistan By Norman Solomon
We desperately need a substantive national debate on U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan and Pakistan. While the Obama administration says that the problems of the region cannot be solved by military means, the basic approach is reliance on heightened military means. Continue reading
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Wikileaks slams arrest; releases latest Afghan death data
The report shows a dramatic escalation of the war and civil disorder. Coalition deaths increased by 35%, assassinations and kidnappings by 50% and attacks on the Kabul based Government of Hamid Karzai also more than doubled, rising a massive 119%. Continue reading
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Disturbed Afghan mass grave site must be secured: rights group
The Dasht-e-Leili site is suspected of having held up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners, according to Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), which discovered the grave in 2002 and has performed autopsies on some of the bodies. Continue reading
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Michael Parenti: Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
The war against Afghanistan, a battered impoverished country, continues to be portrayed in US official circles as a gallant crusade against terrorism. If it ever was that, it also has been a means to other things: destroying a leftist revolutionary social order, gaining profitable control of one of the last vast untapped reserves of the… Continue reading
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The Ugly Of War – Afghanistan
September 2008 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1796434 more about "The Ugly Of War – Afghanistan", posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Afghans fear shortage in humanitarian aid – 25 Nov 2008
The Afghan government has warned foreign donors of a “huge humanitarian crisis” if they don’t respond rapidly to growing food shortages.Al Jazeera’s David Chater reports from the west of Afghanistan. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1796408 more about “Afghans fear shortage in humanitarian…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 12-13 January 2008
13 January 2008 — The New Dark Age 13/1/08 UK Defence Secretary says Britain could be in Afghanistan for decades The Canadian Press – LONDON – British Defence Secretary Des Browne says Britain could be engaged in Afghanistan for decades. Browne made the comments in an interview published … canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jetmcR6TEUWGDQF8Cg1FurXIe4nQ British troops could be in Afghanistan… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News-links 6-7 January 2008
7 January 2008 — The New Dark Age 7/1/08 Bush: Iran still a priority Jewish Telegraphic Agency – New York,NY,USA Ahead of a major Middle East tour, President Bush said he would tell Israeli and Arab leaders that isolating Iran is still a priority. … www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106256.html German diplomat is forced to leave Iran Boston Globe –… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 3-4 January 2008
4 January 2008 — The New Dark Age Afghanistan: Marriage Practice Victimizes Young Girls, Society RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty – Prague,Czech Republic Torpekay tells RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that becoming a wife at the tender age of 13, being forced to serve her husband’s family, … www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/01/8CE81826-4778-4CBC-B9AD-F7C39AA5524D.html Charlie and the jihadis The Australian – Sydney,Australia ONLY Hollywood could reduce… Continue reading
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RAWA.ORG: The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan (Dec.10, 2007)
RAWA.ORG: The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan (Dec.10, 2007) The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of ‘bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people’. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 