‘Analysis & Opinions’ Archives
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 [...]
Colonial Motives Behind Marjah Operations
Voice of Jihad | By Sahar | 16 February 2010 Colonialist Motives Behind Marjah Operations It is now for one week that the invading enemy have launched military operations named “ together” against the Mujahideen in Marjah, a part of Nad Ali district, Helmand province. They have put more than 15,000 American, NATO, and the hireling Afghan [...]
Ethnic cleansing in Afghanistan
Press TV | By Yvonne Ridley | 15 February 2010 As I write this, two NATO rockets have just slaughtered around a dozen innocent Afghan civilians during the latest military assault in the war torn country. Ordinary Afghan men, women and children are paying the blood price for a war launched by politicians from the West. Soldiers, including [...]
Cheney Admits to War Crimes
Truthout | By Jason Leopold | 15 February 2010 Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush administration [...]
