Tag: afghanistan

Panetta admits in his own words, “In the past year we have done exceptionally heavy damage to al Qaeda. That’s why the extremists hit back.” Got that? It is extremism for al Qaeda to hit back but it is not extremism for the CIA to launch its drone aerial rocket strikes against al Qaeda---, strikes that a protesting Pakistan government has urged the U.S. halt as they are killing innocent civilians, in aggregate probably in the hundreds.

Editor's note: It looks from here as if the Taliban are launching a surge of their own.  The news of a coordinated attack by...

A declaration adopted at the Jirga said that the US after facing a clear defeat in Afghanistan, was targeting the tribal areas in revenge and the imprudent Pakistani rulers were victim of a conspiracy to chop off this sword arm of Pakistan only to please Washington. History was witness that the Tribal people had never accepted foreign subjugation and whoever dared to challenge them suffered a humiliating defeat and the tribal area proved to be the graveyard of the invader, the declaration said.

The Manipulation of U.S. General Colin Powell and Pakistani Cricket Star Imran Khan  By Jeff Gates STAFF WRITER/Editor Mass media and popular culture are powerful tools of...

A compelling series of aerial photographs from Haiti leads off today's "Editor's Picks." The  damage to "things," to buildings and infrastructure is incredible, the...

By Sherwood Ross As President Obama steps up the war that is inflaming ever wider sectors of the Middle East, USA continues its rapid slide...

This is a follow-up on Tom Barnes post Obama wants record $708 Billion for military next year – Washington Post

We are people who had little to no opportunity to get a college education. We are people who wanted to take our children to the doctor without going bankrupt. We are people who wanted to avoid joining the masses of unemployed and underpaid. Many of us believed the lifetime of indoctrination that told us the U.S. military protects our families here at home, and helps the poor and oppressed abroad.

To assassinate an American president with impunity requires pre-staging. For Israel to succeed would require an Evil Doer on whom the deed could plausibly be blamed. The emerging fact patterns suggest that such pre-staging is well underway and that a Pakistani could be the perceived culprit. The recent history of Evil Doer branding offers insight into what to expect.

HACKED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor WE are back up, working on a new look and will come back swinging for the fence. Thank...

In Politics Daily tonight we learn in an article entitled U.S. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Make History With Length of Service that we have just made history. These young people have been in combat longer and more often than any other troops in American history.

The Israel/India Alliance Below is the fourth installment in a 5-part series on Pakistan by Jeff Gates, author of Guilt By Association. In April 2009, Tel...

THERE IS ONLY ONE DEFINITION OF "BELIEF" A BELIEF IS A LIE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When a suicide bomber kills himself and others, generally...

"WASHINGTON -The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.

Were the seven CIA employees killed in the recent terror attack at Camp Chapman in Afghanistan really CIA? Sources now tell us that some were Blackwater operatives, not CIA at all. Is the CIA and Blackwater one in the same? Are either one or both working for the United States or has the disease of privatization created a culture of greed and incompetence that has left the United States vulnerable and defenseless? Are we simply "out of our depth" in Afghanistan?

By Steve Clemons - Americans don't feel directly the financial costs of the war, ... don't pay a direct tax to support the more than $100 billion a year effort, and the US still has a volunteer army -- so the impact that might have been felt by society from a large scale draft is not there. America is engaged in big time, significant, long wars with a light footprint on the American psyche. ... We need to see more of what is happening in Afghanistan. We need to pay for wars we engage in -- not just leave the debts ... to the next generation, ... feel the real sacrifices involved with what has become for too many a casual game.

Exploiting Afghan Tribal Militias for an Optimal Counterinsurgency Campaign By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER FOR VETERANS TODAY The U.S. cannot politically or militarily afford an open-ended...

ARE AMERICA'S MERCENARY ARMIES REALLY DRUG CARTELS? DID BUSH/CHENEY REBUILD REAGAN'S "IRAN CONTRA" DRUG GANG? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor News out of Afghanistan, Pakistan and...

Was Glenn Beck Junkie Tased by a Robot? Two days ago, "Gator" Taylor walked into a Virginia post office, no he didn't exactly walk, he...

CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN:  AMERICAN MONEY PAYS, AMERICAN JOBS LOST, ISRAEL AND KARZAI SPLIT THE PROFITS "Israeli company wins $350m. tender to produce APCs for...

It is an oft-cited maxim that in all the conflicts of the past century, the United States has re-fought its last war. A number...

NO ENEMY, NO NEGOTIATIONS ONLY THE DEAD ARE REAL By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When General Petraeus asked for the "surge" in Iraq, he also opened...

PACKED UP AND TOOK THEIR SHOW "ON THE ROAD" "AL QAEDA HAS LEFT THE BUILDING" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Our intelligence estimates that Al Qaeda...

A SECOND GLOBAL HOLOCAUST CONTINUES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When Saddam invaded Kuwait, he didn't expect America to object.  Kuwait had been stealing Iraqi...

ILL INFORMED, ILL ADVISED AND ILL PREPARED MCCHRYSTAL SENDS OTHERS OFF TO WAR By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor You could ask, how do you get to...

GRAFT, CORRUPTION AND CHEAP POLITICS IN AMERICA WINNING THE WAR FOR THE TALIBAN By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Even if analysts existed who understood Iran, Afghanistan,...