Posts Tagged ‘Neo-Colonialism’
Corruption: The Hole in the Whole of Government (WOG) Approach
abc News | By Aamer Madhani | 20 June 2010 U.S. Troops, Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan Suspected of Corruption Officers Charged With Theft, Bribery in Oversees Reconstruction Projects The U.S. government, which is pressing Iraqi and Afghan leaders to get tough on internal corruption, is doing the same in its ranks. Cases of [...]
On Consensual Islam
The News | By Arshad Zaman | 20 June 2010 There is a quality to Ayaz Amir's columns--wise, without being pretentious, with a seriousness wrapped in laughter--that can only be admired. Yet in the seductive laughter of his columns there can on rare occasions be ideas and recommendations that can provide fodder to a demagogue. In a [...]
Gallup: Most Muslims Feel Islamic Law Provides Justice for All
Gallup: The Coexist Foundation | by Magali Rheault and Dalia Mogahed | 25 July 2008 Many Turks, Iranians, Egyptians Link Sharia and Justice Egyptians most likely to make positive associations with Sharia The first article analyzed public attitudes about the role of Sharia as a source of legislation, concluding that although perceptions vary [...]
Afghanistan finally has an air force
AW: Ares | By Robert Wall | 14 June Up to now, the service operating assets such as the Mi-17s and C-27s has been called the Afghan National Army Air Corps. But U.S. Air Forces Central now points out that a name change has taken place under which the service is now the air force. It is still the Afghan National Army Air Force, so there is [...]
U.S. Dilemma: Fighting Corruption Strengthens Mujahideen/Taliban
Danger Room | By Noah Shachtman | 13 June 2010 New U.S. Intel Push Risks Taliban ‘Propaganda Bonanza’ Even before they got to Kabul, the current crop of American military commanders worried that their biggest obstacle could turn out to be Afghanistan’s endemic corruption, not its insurgents. So, in some ways, it’s not all that [...]
Afghanistan: Counting the Ways We Were Wrong
CNAS | By Andrew Exum | 16 June 2010 Afghanistan: Graveyard of Assumptions? (Updated) These past few weeks have brought a fresh torrent of bad news from Afghanistan: a governor in a key district assassinated, U.S. and allied operations in flux, Afghan leadership in question. Policy-makers in Washington and allied capitols are [...]
From Vietnam to Afghanistan: Not winning hearts and minds
Washington Post | By Henry Allen | 18 June 2010 We were putting up the tents when Pakistani police pulled up and told us we might get killed if we camped there. Four guys in a British lump of a car, they'd driven out from Peshawar to warn us. No "fees" or "permits" were demanded, though doubtless they worried about the political [...]
Afghanistan’s Minerals of Mass Wealth (MMWs)
Reuters (India) | By Sue Pleming | 18 June 2010 Afghan mineral gloss seeks to shift war narrative (Reuters) - U.S. defence officials this week breathlessly touted Afghanistan's untapped mineral wealth as a rare good news story in what may be an attempt to reverse pessimism over the war and its outcome. If the timing of the story is aimed at [...]
Obama’s Choice: Withdraw or Reinforce Failure?
Los Angeles Times | By Doyle McManus | 17 June 2010 Obama's mixed Afghanistan messages Choices are stark: Stick to the timetable and drawdown, or stick it out until the job is done. And so far, he has signaled intent to do both. The news from Afghanistan has been bad lately. The military campaign to win control of Kandahar, the [...]
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 [...]
