Posts Tagged ‘Neo-Colonialism’
New Marjah Chief is a Convicted Murderer
Denver Post | By Deb Riechmann and Kirsten Grieshaber | 7 March 2010 Afghanistan: Marjah chief's crime record will be investigated KABUL — Afghan government officials are not rushing to oust the man they chose to bring fresh and credible governance to a town just seized from the Taliban, but his newly disclosed criminal record in Germany [...]
CIA’s Heads of State
Time Magazine | By Bobby Ghosh | 28 October 2009 Who's Who on the CIA Payroll: A Brief History of CIA Assets Allegations that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother worked for the CIA are a reminder of a long list of distinguished and not-so-distinguished assets There was little surprise among Afghanistan experts and longtime CIA watchers [...]
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 [...]
Americans-Afghans Ban Coverage of Mujahideen/Taleban Attacks
International Business Times | By Sayed Salahuddin and Hamid Shalizi | 2 March 2010 Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks KABUL - Afghanistan on Monday announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks, saying such images embolden the Islamist militants, who have launched strikes around the country as NATO forces seize their [...]
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 [...]
Mujahideen/Taleban on the Resistance in Afghanistan
Voice of Jihad | Interview by Hekmat | 25 February 2010 Interview with Qari M. Yousaf Ahmadi, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, about the general jihadic situation in Helmand and the neighboring provinces. Q: How do you see the current Jihadic situation in Helmand province and other surrounding provinces? A: Mujahideen’s [...]
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, [...]
Occupied Iraq: The Silence is Deafening
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 24 February 2010 The Truth About Iraq: The Country is Out of Control Has anyone noticed how suddenly there is little or no news coming out of Iraq? Have the “insurgents” simply melted away, have they all been paid off? With the British and US troops cowering in massive military bases outside the [...]
Iraq: Imperial Sunset billed as “New Dawn”
AlterNet | By Liliana Segura | 20 February 2010 Obama's Pentagon Rebrands Iraq War, Rolls Out PR Offensive in Afghanistan The new PR campaign has all the qualities of a George Orwell novel. Perhaps 'Operation Imperial Sunset' is a more appropriate name. This week, the same week that saw the U.S. military launch a major new assault in [...]
