Posts Tagged ‘Drugs’
US/NATO Psy-Op/MISO in Afghanistan
The Nation | By I. M. Mohsin | 15 July 2010 Afghanistan: the psywar prongs June ended as the deadliest month for the foreign troops, more so the US. According to ISAF’s assessment, 103 soldiers got killed while many more were badly injured. Lacking missiles and air power, which is the monopoly of the foreign troops, the Taliban have to [...]
10,000 NATO Containers Go Missing in Pakistan
The News | By Ikram Hoti | 30 June 2010 Major Customs gang busted, 25 officers arrested Rs 230 bn (US$ 2.7 billion) in taxes, duties evaded as 10,000 Nato containers go missing in two-year operation... The officials cleared more than 70 containers — 36 confirmed with fake papers — carrying poppy-seed (khashkhash) for export to European [...]
The New American Imperialism
Naked Punch | 9 June 2010 By NOAM CHOMSKY Interviewed by David Barsamian MIT, Cambridge, MA 2 April 2010 One of the themes that Howard Zinn tried to address during his long career was the lack of historical memory. The facts of history are scrupulously ignored and/or distorted. I was wondering if you could comment on imperialism then and [...]
McChrystal Fails to Clear, Much Less Hold, Marjah
McClatchy | By Dion Nissenbaum | 24 May 2010 McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign MARJAH, Afghanistan — Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top allied military commander in Afghanistan, sat gazing at maps of Marjah as a Marine battalion commander asked him for more time to oust Taliban fighters from a longtime [...]
Déjà vu: Afghanistan as Vietnam
Global Research | By Professor Alfred W. McCoy | 18 April 2010 From Vietnam to Afghanistan: America and the Dictators From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai The crisis has come suddenly, almost without warning. At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined. The insurgents [...]
Occupied Afghanistan: World’s Top Producer of Opium and Hashish
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 1 April 2010 NATO’s Afghanistan: The Champion of Drugs Production We really have to take our hats off to NATO. This clique of arms lobbyists and defender of jobs for the boys invaded Afghanistan in 2001 on the pretext that Osama bin Laden was using the country to attack western interests. Almost a [...]
Afghanistan is just a chessboard to politicians
Rossiyskaya Gazeta | By Vladimir Snegiryov | 2 March 2010 Vladimir Snegiryov believes that all Afghan troubles stem from the fact that many top politicians continue to regard Afghanistan merely as an arena of geopolitical competition. In December 2009, the world was close to seeing a political sensation. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary [...]
Can McChrystal Govern Marjah?
Christian Science Monitor | By Dion Nissenbaum (McClatchy Newspapers) | 2 March 2010 After the Taliban, what do Marjah residents want? Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and President Hamid Karzai's deputy walked the streets of Marjah Monday. With US-led forces now in control of the former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, US and Afghan [...]
Newsnight poll: Most think Afghan war ‘unwinnable’
BBC | 23 February 2010 Sixty-four per cent of British people think the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, a BBC poll suggests. More than two-thirds (69%) also think the government has not done all it can to support British forces fighting in the country. Only 27% agree that the government has given sufficient support to UK forces. The [...]
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, [...]
