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A powerful excerpt from Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan lays bare the racism at the core of the Iraq occupation.

A powerful excerpt from ‘Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan’ lays bare the racism at the core of the Iraq occupation.

Afghanistan is filled with poor, jobless people who have seen their families blown up by Americans. And they’re itching to get revenge.

Mere weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration was too busy planning to invade Iraq to follow through on its mission in Afghanistan.

The Afghan policewoman Malalai Kakar was a crusading defender of women and a model of Afghan womanhood far older than the Taliban.

Are we going to have an October surprise, an attack on Iran by either the Bush administration or by Israel to stop the regime from becoming a nuclear power?

The House of Representatives passed a $612 billion defense authorization bill for 2009 without a murmur of public protest or any meaningful press comment at all.

When Gen. Musharraf submitted to U.S. pressure after 9/11 and ditched the Taliban in Afghanistan, he provided air bases as well as logistics support and shared intelligence with CIA. He allowed CIA and FBI to recruit agents in FATA and other places and to establish their outposts. The focus of ISI and other agencies was shifted towards hunting and nabbing so-called terrorists all over the country, in monitoring dissident elements within the army and in political wheeling and dealings. The CIA acquired all the links ISI and MI had both sides of the Pak-Afghan border and gradually took most agents on ISI payroll within its fold. By virtue of having better technology and means the CIA was able to take over intelligence acquisition and dissemination system. As a consequence the troops operating in FATA became entirely dependent upon CIA inputs. Taking advantage of complete liberty of action, CIA succeeded in buying the loyalties of many tribal chiefs and notables in FATA by doling out dollars in sacks since it knew that the Pashtun could not be crushed by force but could be purchased. Those not falling in line were got killed.[...] Read more!

US forces kill primarily women and children In South Waziristan, Pakistan.

The truck bomb that exploded in front of Islamabad’s Marriott hotel killing at least 53 people heralded in the latest salvo in the U.S.’s and Mujahedin’s love/hate relationship. Their relationship began in 1979 in Afghanistan and Pakistan when the U.S., starting with Jimmy Carter and his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brezezinski hatched an idea of using the most extreme militant Islamists to first draw in the Soviets (to Afghanistan) then go to war against them.[...] Read more!

To claim the U.S. can achieve now what the British couldn’t in the 19th century and the Russians couldn’t at the end of the 20th is pure fantasy.

The fact that George W. Bush ordered and/or ’signed off’ on that series of crimes called 911 can be proven in court. George W. Bush, therefore, must be prosecuted for the crimes of high treason, waging war upon the people of the US, and instances of mass murder in the US, Afghanistan, and Iraq.[...] Read more!

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Today, Omar Khadr, the sole Canadian citizen in Guantánamo, marks his 22nd birthday in isolation. Seized in Afghanistan when he was just 15 years old, Omar has now spent nearly a third of his life in US custody, in conditions that ought to be shameful to the US administration responsible for holding him, and to the Canadian government that has abdicated its responsibilities towards him.[...] Read more!

America’s Iraq adventure led it into a moral vacuum. Will the error be repeated in the renewed US Afghan campaign?

Rep. Ellison discusses the crackdown on reporters, why he opposes escalation in Afghanistan, and his experience as the first Muslim Congressman.

Biden, Obama, and the Dems are rallying to escalate the war in Afghanistan. But trading one war for another would be catastrophic.

Mounting NATO bombing raids and widespread detentions of Afghans are rapidly turning the country into the mirror image of Iraq.

Most of the casualties were women and children; the deaths sparked demonstrations and a condemnation by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The murder of four humanitarian aid workers in Afghanistan should temper talk about sending more troops there.

Amidst rising violence, the U.S.-based International Rescue Committee says it will suspend its humanitarian programs in Afghanistan.

The Pentagonization of the United States shows no sign of slowing down.

We did not invade Afghanistan to help the Afghan people. So why are so many progressives buying into that myth?

Hearing loss is one of the most common ailments that affects troops sent back to combat, according to the Pentagon and government researchers.

The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was every bit as illegal as the invasion of Iraq. Why, then, do so many Americans see it as justifiable?

Defense Secretary Gates, who opposes US action against Iran, urged to tighten sanction against Tehran while keeping all options open

A government watchdog has uncovered pictures that suggest US troops on their way to battlefields in Afghanistan travel in squalor while top military and government officials are cocooned in “comfort capsules.”

We should be asking the candidates: Is our war in Afghanistan ending terrorism, or provoking it? And is not war itself terrorism?

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense argues that America’s leadership role in the post-Bush world may depend upon ‘how threatening the world appears’

Obama is serious about a withdrawal plan for Iraq, but he’s committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dumb Idea.

When veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan bring their troubles home, police and judges often are the first to deal with them.

Two former secretaries of state spent the past year concocting a new plan to give the president a role in war-making that the Constitution does not allow.