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- Consecutive appointments of straight shooting generals in charge of US Embassy & Command HQ in Kabul was a stroke of genius

First, the Pentagon infiltrated the US mainstream media on the sly by a constellation of retired military stars to massage the major message on Operation Indefinite Liberty, OIL aka GWAT, globally. Later, Fort Fumble reversed its spinmeister tactics and, in overt civ/mil joint venture, it imbedded tightly vetted quill-drivers into US Marines & Army units in Afghanistan to promote Obama’s double-down surge locally.

President Obama is now exploring avenues for a faster withdrawal from Afghanistan. American is flat broke, busted and our allies in Afghanistan have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt. that they are far worse than our enemies.

IF YOU DON'T THINK THEY ARE MAKING IT ALL UP... By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The war in Afghanistan was planned long before 9/11, that...

THE LORD OF THE DRUGS By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev (ret) STAFF WRITER/Editor With great gusto Karzai used to ‘play US like a fiddle’. Unabashed, he’ll ...

Parents Of Soldier Say They Warned Army About Thrill Kill Sergeant 'Crazy' Sergeant Allegedly Continued Murdering Innocent Civilians By MATTHEW COLE, BRIAN ROSS and ANGELA M....

GROUND BREAKING INTERVIEW WITH TOP SOVIET/RUSSIAN EXPERT ON AFGHANISTAN Colonel Eugene Khrushchev's last post in Afghanistan was in 2006 as First  Secretary of the Russian...

AMERICA'S WORST KEPT SECRET   By Gordon Duff , Senior Editor   I learned about 9/11 from the news.  Before the second plane had crashed, people in the crowd...

VIETNAM ALL OVER AGAIN....A SONG BY BARRY DAVID BUTLER Posted by Gordon Duff Senior Editor VT Our thanks to Barry David Butler for telling it like...

For the last decade, America has been shuffling its entire military, including hundreds of thousands of private contractors, in and out of the Middle East on little more than a "snipe hunt." Time for a reality check. Iraq never attacked the US. Reports say Al Qaeda may have fewer than 30 men in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: $4.2 billion in mysterious cash flown out of Kabul since 2007 By Jerome Starkey for The Scotsman THE "blizzard of banknotes" leaving Kabul airport is...

CIA TRIES TO PREPARE AMERICAN PUBLIC FOR TRUTH ABOUT BUSH/BIN LADEN DECEPTION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This week, CIA director Leon Panetta, admitted there...

CAN ANYONE PROVE KARZAI IS BETTER THAN THE TALIBAN? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Do we actually call what we are doing in Afghanistan a...

AFGHAN'S DEEP DRUG DIVIDE Colonel Eugene Khrushchev STAFF WRITER/Editor "Since Afghan drug lords’ special rep Richard Holbrooke, in cahoots with CIA and Karzai Bros Drug Inc.,...

THE KEY TO PAKISTAN'S SECURITY IS AFGHANISTAN THE KEY TO AFGHANISTAN'S SECURITY IS PAKISTAN By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor US policy in Afghanistan hasn't so much...

By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev, STAFF WRITER/Editor From plight to blight The US has launched a surreptitious germ warfare against the hard-working drug-farmers – or so claimed...

A recent analyis has shown the 40 year old American M-16 rifle to be a failure in Afghanistan. The weapon that caused more American deaths in Vietnam than the enemy is still junk technology today, even with its Star Wars derivitives. The result is still "Palinesque" or as I would call it, "lipstick on a pig." The wrong design, the wrong cartridge, no range, no stopping power and poor reliability, 40 years of failure in the most important area of the battlefield, our combat rifle. This wasn't an accident but part of our defense tradition, fighting wars with junk, fighting wars meant to eat money, put fighting men and women under the dirt, fighting wars meant to go on forever, as long as the money flows. A new study, over 40 years late, challenges our basic infantry weapon's effectiveness:

  AFGHANISTAN:  US DRUG POLICY, TOTAL CORRUPTION OR UTTER INSANITY? By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev (ret) STAFF WRITER/Editor The new American drug policy is easy to understand.  America...

NATO OPIUM "ERADICATION" GUARANTEES RECORD HEROIN PRODUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN AMERICA'S "FALSE FLAG" WAR ON DRUGS By Col Khrushchev (ret)  STAFF WRITER/Editor Monterey & Marja Right after 4/20 celebration of...

The duplicity of dovish drug détente By Col.  Khrushchev (ret) STAFF WRITER/Editor Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, who is in charge of strategic communication & info ops...

Is that what the US military is for – to be duped into dope syringe surge? By Colonel Evgeny Khrushchev (ret) STAFF WRITER/Editor (Moscow) Soviet and Russian...

GULBUDDIN HIKMATYAR, "BUSH TERRORIST MASTERMIND" AND BIN LADEN ASSOCIATE WORKING FOR U.S.? WHAT ELSE HAVE WE BEEN LYING ABOUT? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor For many...

ARMED AND FINANCED ALMOST ENTIRELY BY AMERICA AND INDIA THE  TALIBAN "ENEMY" IS OUR OWN CREATION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Two years ago analysts claimed...

After a year of cautious debate and costly deployments, President Obama finally launched his new Afghan war strategy at 2:40 am on February 13, 2010, in a remote market town called Marja in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province. As a wave of helicopters descended on Marja's outskirts spitting up clouds of dust, hundreds of U.S. Marines dashed through fields sprouting opium poppies toward the town's mud-walled compounds.

IS THE ENEMY OUR OWN STUPIDITY? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER, Senior Editor America's recent attack, augmented by top line Afghan army troops,  against the massive...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban turf in Marja has put American and NATO commanders in the unusual position of arguing against opium [MarinesOpiumNYT] eradication, pitting them against some Afghan officials who are pushing to destroy the harvest.

For the Marines of Charlie Company's 3rd Platoon, Sunday's mission was simple enough: Head west for a little more than a mile to link up with Alpha Company in preparation for a mission to secure the few ramshackle government buildings in this farming community. It would take nine hours to walk that distance, a journey that would reveal the danger and complexity of the Marines' effort to wrest control of Marja from the Taliban.

WHAT OUR MILITARY LEADERS ONLY SAY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Open today's newspaper and get a map of the battle zones...

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...

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...