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Monday March 22nd 2010

From the Imperium

New Marjah Chief is a Convicted Murderer

CIA’s Heads of »

Time Magazine | By Bobby Ghosh | 28 October 2009 Who's Who on the CIA Payroll: A Brief History of CIA Assets [...]

From the Regional Powers

Advani: India’s Talks »

Indian Express | By Agencies | 2 March 2010 Govt's U-turn on Indo-Pak talks was at US nudge: [...]

Afghanistan is just a »

Rossiyskaya Gazeta | By Vladimir Snegiryov | 2 March 2010 Vladimir Snegiryov believes that all Afghan [...]

Another Indian-American »

Times of India | 2 March 2010 WASHINGTON: In yet another appointment of Indian-Americans in the Obama [...]

From Client-States

Americans-Afghans Ban Coverage of »

International Business Times | By Sayed Salahuddin and Hamid Shalizi | 2 March 2010 Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks KABUL - Afghanistan [Read More]

From Imperial Allies

Newsnight poll: »

BBC | 23 February 2010 Sixty-four per cent of British people think the war in [...]

On Afghanistan »

Times | From Anthony Lloyd, Rawalpindi | 23 February 2010 Colonel Imam: ‘I have the [...]

More Children »

Times | 25 February 2010 Nato admits that deaths of 8 boys were a mistake A [...]

Islâmi Davet | 2 March 2010 Dubai asks FBI to investigate terror ties to US Amid ongoing investigation of the terrorist murder of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the UAE police have asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to look into alleged ties of the suspects [Read More]

Analysis & Opinions

Planning for the Next War

TomDispatch | By Tom Engelhardt | 2 March 2010 Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war. The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners. The question is: Are they focusing on how to [...]

Marjah: Washington Post Endorses the Taleban Narrative

Antiwar | by Gareth Porter | 24 February 2010 Marjah Offensive Aimed to Shape US Opinion on War Senior military officials decided to launch the current U.S.-British military campaign to seize Marjah in large part to influence domestic U.S. opinion on the war in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Monday. The Post report, [...]

Russia and Afghanistan: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Russia BTH | By Vladimir Snegiryov | 24 February 2010 No way to Afghanistan In December 2009, the world was close to seeing a political sensation. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of Nato, came to Russia to ask for an increased contribution to the Afghan problem. He was welcomed by the president and the prime minister. They listened and [...]

Notes on the US Budget for FY2011 as it Affects Afghanistan and Pakistan

This review of the U.S. President’s FY2011 budget request reflects two underlying concerns: (1) how much of the U.S. taxpayers’ money is being provided for military and diplomatic expenditures in the main theaters of war; and (2) how long can the United States sustain these levels of spending, and at what cost? While these questions are not [...]

A Serbian View of Kosovo

Antiwar | By Nebojsa Malic | 20 February 2010 The State That’s Still A Lie: 'Independent' Kosovo Turns 2 Two years have passed since the Albanian provisional government in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence, and was quickly recognized by the Empire and its clients. The powers that have invoked the specter of [...]

Moscow – A Home for Middle Eastern Radicals?

RIA Novosti | By Dmitry Babich | 17 February 2010 “...when Condoleezza Rice learned from the news on television that Hamas had won the 2007 elections, she almost fell off of her treadmill. All she could say was 'This is just wrong!' ” The very fact that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow is a major success for [...]

The Meaning of Marjah

This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR Stratfor | By Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes | 17 February 2010 On Feb. 13, some 6,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops launched a sustained assault on the town of Marjah in Helmand province. Until this latest offensive, the U.S. and NATO [...]

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