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Victor KORGUN: The Afghan dilemma
The development of the situation in Afghanistan over the last 12 months has been influenced by the new US strategy approved by President Barack Obama in April 2009. As opposed to the strategy of George Bush the strategy of Obama’s government implies not only strengthening US and NATO military presence in the country but also… Continue reading
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US panel debates drone legality
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UVA’s) or drones are remote-controlled aircraft without people onboard, which can carry and utilize missiles. It is widely suspected that the US has used drones frequently to target al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, although Washington has never admitted nor denied it. But in alleged UVA attacks targeting the fighters,… Continue reading
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The Afghan ant hole By Eric Walberg
Already, there are strong indications from Marja, that the new offensive will run into trouble. The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing there two weeks ago that killed 35. Though Marja now has one coalition soldier or policeman for every eight residents, after dark the city is like “the kingdom of the Taliban”, said… Continue reading
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ICH 1 March, 2010: Can Obama Assassinate Americans?
Can Obama Assassinate Americans? By Nat Hentoff The executive branch alone decides who shall die instantly. And there are no defense attorneys to raise objections, even when an American citizen is marked for oblivion. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24888.htm The Picture By David Glenn Cox I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: WAR AS PR – OPERATION MOSHTARAK, MEANING “TOGETHER”
Idiocy is one thing, but the BBC’s idiocy all went one way – no journalist swooned with comparable helplessness at the feet of experts excoriating US-UK propaganda. As news of Sambrook’s move arrived, his former colleagues at the BBC were once again deferring to the “intelligent”, “thoughtful”, “sceptical” American and British politicians hawking the public… Continue reading
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ICH 24 February, 2010: Explosive News
Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace By BRIAN KNOWLTON Mr. Gates’s blunt comments came just three days after the coalition government of the Netherlands collapsed in a dispute over keeping Dutch troops in Afghanistan. It now appears almost certain that most of the 2,000 Dutch troops there will be withdrawn this year. And Continue reading
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ICH 21 February, 2010: 'Netanyahu Authorized Dubai Assassination'
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,366,350″ www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,694 icasualties.org/oif/ Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,658 icasualties.org/oef/ Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan $963,285,180,251 www.costofwar.com/ Subscribe to this feed using your newsreader ichnews.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Continue reading
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Afghanistan and NATO: Figleaf summit By Eric Walberg
The conferees in London piously asked that the Taliban give up their links with Al-Qaeda and stop threatening the world. But the Taliban have never tried to export their beliefs. And the supposed link with Al-Qaeda is a false flag, since the Taliban and Al-Qaeda (to what extent it even exists) have never been operating… Continue reading
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Taliban Assault on Kabul Updated
A major Taliban attack began on Kabul Jan. 18. The fighting is being reported by both American and Taliban sources. According to one American source, reports of an imminent attack began circulating Jan. 17. Continue reading
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September 11, 2001: America and NATO Declare War on Afghanistan By Michel Chossudovsky
The legal argument used by Washington and NATO to invade Afghanistan was that the September 11 attacks constituted an undeclared “armed attack” “from abroad” by an unnamed foreign power, and that consequently “the laws of war” apply, allowing the nation under attack, to strike back in the name of “self-defense”. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 76 Yeswecanistan
We should never forget that Iraqi society has been destroyed. The people of that unhappy land have lost everything — their homes, their schools, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their health care, their legal system, their women’s rights, their religious tolerance, their security, their friends, their families, their past, their… Continue reading
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Russia-India-China: The Bush curse By Eric Walberg
Moscow is trying to draw India and China closer to put out the flames now flaring across the continent, from the Caucasus and Central Asia, to Iran and Pakistan, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires or just a graveyard with a pipeline running through it? By William Bowles
Come on folks, it’s just good sense, there is no way the Empire can actually win the war in Afghanistan. As I have stated before it’s about being there, not ‘winning’. Afghanistan is basically a stepping stone on the way to some place else and leaving an oil pipeline behind with a friendly government in… Continue reading
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