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ICG Report Considers the Karzai Government Illegitimate and Calls for Inquiry and a Loya Jirga
Afghanistan: Elections and the Crisis of Governance Download: Full Report Overview President Hamid Karzai’s re-election on 2 November 2009, following widespread fraud in the 20 August presidential and provincial polls, has delivered a critical blow to his government’s legitimacy. The deeply flawed polls have eroded public confidence in [...]
Unlike the Bamiyan Statues in Afghanistan, the Babri Masjid was Demolished by Hindu Extremists led by the Top Leadership of India
The Hindu | By Vidya Subrahmaniam | 24 Nov 2009 Babri Masjid demolition was planned: Liberhan Download Liberhan Report: Full Text | or in Parts I II III IV V Justice M. S. Liberhan had submitted his findings to the government on June 30 this year after an inquiry spanning nearly 17 years. The report recommends a law providing for [...]
Obama has been presented with a choice between three ways to fail in Afghanistan
My Exclusive Interview with Ken Guest -- Journalist/Analyst on Afghanistan (Part 1) By Kathleen Wells, J.D. A blogger on politics and law who draws upon her political science and legal background “It will be hard to see from within the cloistered corridors of power, that Obama is unwittingly presented with what amounts to three ways to [...]
Amy Goodman’s Interview with Jeremy Scahill on his Blackwater/XE Exposé
Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program In an explosive new article in The Nation magazine, investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reveals the private military firm Blackwater is part of a covert [...]
Jeremy Scahill’s Exposé of Blackwater/Xe (Operating as “Total Intelligence Solutions”) in Pakistan
Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan By Jeremy Scahill | November 23, 2009 Operating out of a US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) base in Karachi, and reporting to a Task Force based at Bagram Air Base, Blackwater/Xe's "SELECT" Division, and its affiliate, "Total Intelligence Solutions", works with and for Kestral Logistics -- a [...]
Obama writes to President da Silva of Brazil seeking support against Iran, while defending U.S. intervention in Honduras and Colombia
Obama Writes to Brazil’s Leader About Iran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has reiterated his support for Iran’s right, like Brazil's, to develop its nuclear technology for use in energy production. RIO DE JANEIRO — President Obama sent a letter on Sunday to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil reiterating the [...]
The pre-meditated U.S. invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, It was “a grudge match between Bush and Saddam”
Iraq war inquiry: Britain heard US drumbeat for invasion before 9/11 • UK dismissed idea in 2001 as having no basis in law • Terror attacks ended US support for 'containment' Tony Blair's government knew that prominent members of the Bush administration wanted to topple Saddam Hussein years before the invasion but initially distanced [...]
U.S. Special Forces, and now Blackwater/XE, running top secret covert assassination and kidnapping operations in Pakistan since 2006
US firm 'runs covert Pakistan ops' Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan blame Blackwater for at least two of the recent bombings (in Peshawar, and the NWFP), saying the Taliban attacks never aimed to target civilians and that the explosions were linked to Blackwater activities in the country. A new report has accused the US private security firm [...]
US in back-channel talks with Afghan-Taleban
In a 13 May 2009 post ("Af-Pak" War Plans: Two Weeks Later) it had been concluded that faced with a growing realisation that a defeat at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan is inevitable, the American military leadership had decided to hand over Afghanistan (or major areas thereof) to the Afghan-Taleban; the only dispute being on whether this [...]
Senator Joe Lieberman’s ‘Jee-had’
Antiwar.com | By Jeremy Sapienza Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut may be the most destructive politician in the United States. Combining the worst ideas of the right, the left, and the religious, he essentially seeks to punitively tax the world in order to bomb it for the sake of Israel. Despite Lieberman’s “dual” loyalty — in [...]
