(AJC) – Since NATO began its “War on Terror” in 2001, heroin production in Afghanistan has increased 40 times and an estimated 1 million people have died as a result. Speaking last month in Vienna at the annual UN session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, said that the drug remains the primary factor of instability in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
(AFP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday criticised the Taliban for holding daily talks with the United States as they also launch suicide attacks that kill civilians and children. Read the rest of this entry »
(AirForceTimes) – As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan and quietly scrubbed those statistics from previous releases kept on their website. Read the rest of this entry »
(Corbett) – January 30th, 2013 – In this ground-breaking interview, famed FBI whistleblower and Boiling Frogs Post founder Sibel Edmonds lays out the thread connecting NATO’s Gladio operations to Turkish paramilitaries and ultra-nationalists, and how the operation continues through cooperation with terrorists and the Islamization of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Read the rest of this entry »
(FB) – A hard look at what the REAL reasons were for invading and occupying the country in which our CIA gave birth to Al Qaida. (Those who attacked us on 9/11 were mostly Saudis, by the way.) The Taliban had awarded contracts to the Bridas Corp. to build the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, but then Governor Bush (TX) managed to provide a counter offer on behalf of Unocal. Read the rest of this entry »
(FB) – Obama and McCain (same foreign policy) call for a troop surge in Afghanistan under perfect cover of fighting the “Taliban” while at the same time making sure the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline gets completed so Pakistan and India get the oil from Turkmenistan provided by Unocal Read the rest of this entry »
(FB) – U.S. troops may soon be used to protect the Trans-Afghan Pipeline in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Construction on the pipeline will begin in 2010 and continue through 2015 and beyond, but only after the region is secured. Since the U.S. interfered with the original contracts awarded to the Bridas Corp (from Argentina), the Pashtun and Taliban tribal forces are not so interested in Unocal’s counter-offer, which was extended by Hamid Karzai (a former Unocal consultant). This means either the U.S. will have to commit genocide to secure the area, or US troops will be sitting ducks while guarding the pipeline through each phase of its construction. Wasn’t there supposed to be another reason US invaded Afghanistan? Read the rest of this entry »
(YahooNews) – Taliban leaders have fired back at Prince Harry over the royal’s comments that piloting a helicopter in Afghanistan—where he says he killed insurgents during his recent tour of duty—is like playing a video game. Read the rest of this entry »
(AFP) – The US Defense Department has prepared plans for a smaller presence in Afghanistan after the White House insisted on examining the option of leaving fewer troops in the country after 2014 than was initially proposed, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The newspaper said the plans now prepared by the Pentagon call for leaving roughly 3,000, 6,000 or 9,000 US troops in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
(WSWS) – As the 2014 deadline for the end of NATO operations in Afghanistan draws closer, the Obama administration is preparing for a continued US military presence into the indefinite future. The plans, reported by the New York Times, underscore the predatory, neo-colonial character of the American-led occupation. Read the rest of this entry »
(NewAmerican) – A recent comment by an U.S. Army officer about looking for “children with potential hostile intent” has increased concerns about targeting policy and the killing of civilians in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – British ex-Defense Minister, Lord Gilbert, has threatened militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan with a neutron bomb. The UK could create “cordons sanitaire along various borders where people are causing trouble”, he said. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – The residents of a village in northern Afghanistan say American troopers raped several women during a nighttime raid in the rural community. Read the rest of this entry »
(Vimeo) – The Mine Kafon is a Semifinalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. It could also be named an Audience Favorite if it’s among the ten that receives the most votes. If you love it, vote for it. Read the rest of this entry »
(MelissaMelton) – The war in Afghanistan, also known by the upbeat, patriotic moniker Operation Enduring Freedom, has officially been going on for over a decade now. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – The United States’ post-9/11 actions in Afghanistan have already earned the operation the distinction of being America’s longest-running war, and promises on the verge of being shattered could cause an expected end to be still a ways in the future. Read the rest of this entry »
This post was updated at 2:50 p.m. with comment from Army spokesman Maj. Justin Platt and Sgt. Micah Turner. It was updated at 5:20 p.m. with comment from Fort Bragg spokesman Sgt. 1st Class Michael Noggle.
(USNews) – Eleven years to the day after U.S. troops first landed in Afghanistan, an American soldier who says he was deployed three times to Afghanistan and once to Iraq tried to give himself up to authorities Sunday after deserting his active-duty unit more than a month ago. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Only days away from the 11th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, Abby Martin takes a look back at consequences of the longest military involvement in US history. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Only days away from the 11th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, Abby Martin takes a look back at consequences of the longest military involvement in US history. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (PressTV) – Iceland warns Israel against military attack on Iran – Read More Here
(ITN) – A member of Nato’s Afghan force and a civilian contractor have been killed in the latest so-called insider attack by a member of the country’s security forces, bringing the US death toll in the conflict up to 2,000. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – There’s a lot of attention now on how unrest in the Muslim world might impact the insurgency in Afghanistan. For more on that, RT talks to British MP George Galloway, who tabled a motion in parliament demanding British troops be home by Christmas. Read the rest of this entry »
(OccupyCorporatism) – An attack on Camp Bastion that led to the deaths of two US Marines is being reported as a botched “attempt to kidnap Prince Harry during his four-month tour of duty.”
(RussiaToday) – More than 1,000 Afghans massed outside NATO and US military bases in Kabul on Monday, setting fire to cars and storage containers in a violent protests. Read the rest of this entry »
(Youtube) – This is an obvious fake green screen CNN claims is live from Kabul reporting on the inside attack on the Military base Prince Harry is at. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – A US assassination drone strike has killed eight women and girls in eastern Afghanistan report local officials, contradicting Pentagon statements. Read the rest of this entry »
(LRCBlog) – Why is everyone, including the Romuluns, dissing Clint Eastwood this morning? First, because his segment was the only interesting moment during the entire Republican convention. And second, because he said this to the invisible Obama by his side: Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – This episode revolves around the US drone attacks in Pakistan and the rising number of civilian casualties. Studies show most of those killed in US drone attacks in Pakistan are civilians. This, as the US claims that drones only target al-Qaeda militants. As the US drone attacks continue in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia, United Nations say these deadly attacks violate international rules and regulations.
(Reuters) – An Afghan police commander and several of his men killed three U.S. Marines in the southern province of Helmand, turning guns on them after inviting them to a dinner to discuss security, Afghan officials said on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Stanley McChrystal, the former commander in occupied Afghanistan, wants to bring back forced conscription. He believes sending 18 year olds into warzones designed by the global elite will “instill a sense of shared civic duty among young Americans,” the AFP reports. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – The United States’ war in Afghanistan reached a new milestone this week when the death toll of Americans killed in the decade-long Operation Enduring Freedom reached 2,000. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (PressTV) – Hollande Announces France Will Beign Afghanistan Exit In July – Read More Here
(PressTV) – The NATO Commander in Afghanistan apologizes after another deadly airstrike adds 18 more innocent civilians to the list Obama’s mass murder victims. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (MediaRoots) – The 9/11 Propaganda Archive: How Scared Should You Be? – Read More Here
(MediaRoots) – A pair of internet archivists who call themselves ‘Neuro Linguistic Programming’ have uploaded Part Three of US corporate media print publications from the immediate days and weeks following 9/11. The duo plans to post more multiple full issues of Time and Newsweek as well as other timely magazines that are filled with blatant fearmongering and propaganda about terrorism. Read the rest of this entry »
A new report by the United Nations drug agency sheds light on the nuts and bolts of narcotics transit from Afghanistan through Central Asia, highlighting the former Soviet republics’ lackluster efforts at interdiction.Read the rest of this entry »
(USAToday) – Thirty to 50 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars may have fought hard for or suffered for their medals, but this weekend, they plan to hand those medals back during the NATO summit in Chicago, MSNBC reports.
The group will stage the demonstration in protest of the war on terror, according to the itinerary for Sunday published on the blog Iraq Veterans Against the War. Read the rest of this entry »
(NewAmerican) – President Obama addressed the nation from Afghanistan May 1, claiming victory over al Qaeda and touting a new agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai keeping U.S. troops in combat in the nation for at least two more years. The executive agreement also includes a decade-long commitment of U.S. troops and foreign aid to the nation. Read the rest of this entry »
(BusinessInsider) – When Tom Vanden Brook and his editor Ray Locker researched a story about the astronomical sums being spent by military propaganda campaigns, one of their first stops was the Pentagon.
Published in February, their story outlines a massive propaganda effort costing U.S. taxpayers hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars a year that produced dubious returns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
(PatrickHenningsen) – In case you missed it today, it was quietly reported that on Thursday morning ’Al-Qaida’ succeeded in executing a wave of attacks that hit 10 cities across Iraq, killing at least 30 and wounding 117 people. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (Guardian) – Syria crisis and Bahrain’s ‘days of rage’ – live updates – Read More Here
Also: (RT) – April 13 – Video: Turkey Cites NATO Article 5 To Call For Military Action In Syria – View Here
(HigginsBlog) – More NATO allies continue to announce sudden and abrupt troop withdrawals from Afghanistan following the Afghan Massacre and other atrocities of US soldiers. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – New photos of American soldiers posing with Afghan corpses have emerged in the U.S. The images appear to be another example in a series of extreme breaches of discipline by U.S. troops, which have dangerously undermined their position with the Afghan people. Former Afghan MP Daoud Sultanzoy thinks besides posing a threat to relations between his country and the U.S., this scandal will contribute to NATO leaving behind a grim legacy. Read the rest of this entry »
(PatrickHenningsen) – If one man ever embodied all that is wrong with the mainstream media’s failing propaganda outlets, it’s Geraldo Rivera.
Presently, he’s masquerading as a journalist in Afghanistan, earning his salary as the media’s ultimate weapon of mass distraction.Read the rest of this entry »
(PatrickHenningsen) – According to US military reports earlier this morning, the Taliban have mounted a multi-pronged attack where they succeeded in hitting a number of Afghanistan’s urban areas in a coordinated paramilitary attack that has left both the US and German embassies, as well as NATO’s military headquarters on total lock-down.
Militants are said to have launched a series of gun and fired rocket-propelled grenade attacks, using a vacant commercial building in central Kabul to stage what is being described as an Afghan ’Tet Offensive’. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (NewAmerican) – Drone Strike Kills Four in Pakistan – Read More Here
Also: (Jurist) – Poland ex-intelligence head faces charges for involvement in secret CIA prison – Read More Here
(TheHill) – As the Pentagon begins to wind down the war in Afghanistan, the smaller conflicts elite U.S. forces are fighting around the world are heating up.
But DoD needs more than just men and materiel to meet these challenges. It needs additional authority from Congress to do so.
“Most of the authorities that we have right now are narrowly construed to counterterrorism … [but] I think for some countries we may need a little bit more flexibility to go in there,” Michael Sheehan, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, told lawmakers on Tuesday.
The majority of counterterrorism missions by U.S. special forces have been focused on al Qaeda and Taliban cells in Afghanistan and the Middle East region. Full article here
The Obama Regime’s Priority: Defend the Empire with Whatever Personnel is Available at his Disposal
(BFP) – The March 11 Massacre of the 17 Afghan citizens, including at least nine children and four women, raises many fundamental issues about the nature of a colonial war, the practices of a colonial army engaged in a prolonged (eleven-year) occupation and the character of an imperial state as it commits war crimes and increasingly relies on arbitrary dictatorial measures to secure public compliance and suppress dissent. Read the rest of this entry »
(PatrickHenningsen) – US military courts handed down their judgment to Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales - 17 counts of murder for the massacre of innocent Afghans. Bales, 38, will be formally charged today. Another lone gunman charged, and we are told that this horror story is meant to end there, with ‘closure’ for all sides.
The said slaughter of defenseless Afghan civilians was the worst of its kind since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan began in 2001. It comes just weeks after copies of the Koran were burned at a US military base, an event which set off mass riots across the country. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (MediaRoots) – BZ and Secret U.S. Government Experimentation – Read More Here
(MediaRoots) – Early last Sunday, an unhinged U.S. Army Sergeant walked more than a mile going from village to village in rural Afghanistan, breaking down the doors of three homes and methodically murdering 16 Afghani civilians, 9 of them being children.
(RussiaToday) – Gruesome new details are surfacing after 16 Afghan villagers including nine children were shot in their houses by at least one US serviceman. Witnesses to the atrocity now say that several drunken American soldiers were involved.
