8 December 2013 — williambowles.info
In his refusal to sign the Afghan-US security pact which would enable some US troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is signaling a clear message to the United States: Afghanistan does not need US troops on its ground any more.
14 March 2013 — Information Clearing House
The United States, and President Obama, Arm al-Qaeda
By Alan Jones
The close association between the FSA and al-Qaeda affiliates means that the United States, and President Obama, are effectively arming terrorists.
11 March 2013 — Information Clearing House
US: Psychotic Superpower on a Hair-trigger
By Finian Cunningham
This unstable, lawless rogue state, armed to the teeth and deluded by its own self-righteousness, poses the greatest risk to world security.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34252.htm
5 February 2013 — Global Research
“The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.”(Martin H.Fischer, 1879-1962.)
It has not been an auspicious couple of weeks for UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
12 March 2012 — Veterans Today
Sixteen Dead, Nameless “Lone Gunman,” We Have Heard It All Before
The village is Balandi, outside Kandahar in Afghanistan. Thus far the dead are 16, shot in their homes, not just said to be “women and children” but actually infants murdered in their mother’s arms and set afire.
The US claims the perpetrator to be an unnamed “Army Staff Sergeant who has turned himself in.” There are inconsistencies.
10 February 2012 — Stop NATO news
July 14, 2011 — Information Clearing House
300 Somali Children Left for Dead in Drought
By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED
Andrew Wander, a spokesman for Save the Children, said his agency provides care to more than 300 unaccompanied children who were found on roadsides after their parents died or abandoned them. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28573.htm
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info
Assange Presses Appeal to Head Off Extradition
Wall Street Journal
By JEANNE WHALEN LONDON—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange unveiled a narrower set of legal arguments in a UK court on Tuesday as he continued his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden to face a sexual-assault investigation. Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated …
http://europe.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812104576441462672745124.html
13 July 2011 — Eric Walberg
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house, according to Kandahar’s Canadian Governor Tooryali Wesa. He was shot in the head and chest with a AK-47 fired by Sardar Mohammad, a former bodyguard to another Karzai brother Qayyoum.
30 June 2011 — Eric Walberg
There are many parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan. The recent American mayors’ resolution to “bring our war $$ home” and Obama’s announcement that troops are now being withdrawn are fresh reminders, but the story they tell is grim, says Eric Walberg
6 December, 2010 — Creative-i.info
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WikiLeaks: Experts Explain America’s Role In Afghanistan Corruption
By Braden Holly
President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother, is getting paid by the CIA and that thousands of other officials are being paid off. That, in my mind, is corruption,” said Pratap Chatterjee, an author and columnist for the Guardian. “A lot of the biggest money in Afghanistan is U.S. military and State Department contracts.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26984.htm
US Takes Cut of Donations by Allies to Afghanistan
By Ian Traynor
THE US military has been charging its allies a 15 per cent handling fee on hundreds of millions of dollars raised internationally to build up the Afghan army, according to US diplomatic cables.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26983.htm
3 December, 2010 — Creative-i.info
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As I predicted, the heat is on Julian Assange.
2 December, 2010
7 October, 2010 — RT
It can be said that the US plays a devil’s role in Afghanistan, said journalist and author Ann Jones.
’I think you could say that in a way, because we are supporting an administration that is not only corrupt but, of course, as fundamentalist in many ways as the Taliban, not just the executive branch and the cabinet, but parliament as well,’ she said. ‘They are all controlled by former Mujahideen, Islamic extremists that the Bush administration put in power.’
’So, we are on the one hand talking about spreading democracy and equal rights for women and all of those nice things and on the other hand, in many ways there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the government we are supporting and the Taliban we are fighting against,’ Jones added.
‘Now, of course, we keep talking about having negotiations. Karzai wanted to negotiate for years and the US opposed it, but now it seems to be supporting it as a way out, but you can be sure that if these negotiations go forward with the Taliban and the Karzai government, it is Afghan women and minorities who are going to suffer in the long run,’ Jones maintains.
Ann Jones observed that it is mainly war contractors who benefit from this war.
’A lot of money is being made of the war – the armament suppliers, the contractors who are supposedly providing security for the people who supposedly are developing the country,’ she said. ‘There are many reports of the US paying the Taliban so the Taliban would shoot at their convoys so that they can supply their troops, so they can go out and battle against the Taliban.’
1 July, 2010 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
The sacking of the head of NATO’s military command in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, caused a surge in coverage of the man described by political analyst James Petras as “Cheney’s chief assassin”.
In May 2009, Petras sampled from McChrystal’s CV. The general had played a central role in directing units involved in “extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions”. He was “the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building”. (www.alternet.org/story/140068/cheney’s_chief_assassin_is_now_obama’s_commander_in_afghanistan/?page=1)
Between September 2003 and August 2008, McChrystal commanded the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations (JSOC), tasked to set up death squads and paramilitary forces to terrorise communities and movements opposing the US and its allies in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. JSOC’s Major General William Mayville described the operation in Iraq: “JSOC was a killing machine.”
(www.counterpunch.org/grant06242010.html)
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