Tag: afghanistan

By Hanan Habibzai,STAFF WRITER General Parviz Musharaf , who led Pakistan into a war, backed US-led occupation of Afghanistan in 2001  , and attacked...

WIKILEAKS IS ISRAEL By Joe Quinn of SOTT.net I obviously missed the momentous occasion when the mainstream media turned anti-war. But who can now deny that...

When the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the early 1980s, one of the last acts of the Carter Administration was to implement a...

"WIKI-MURDERS"..."WIKI-TERROR"...."WIKI-WAR" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor An attack on American forces in the Persian Gulf is being planned.  Wikileaks is an integral part of the...

Lawyers who are specialists in the International Law of Armed Conflict, War Crimes Law to the rest of us, say the uranium smoke, dust and shrapnel must be able to be turned off when the battle is over. Too bad. Uranium gas is a radioactive and electrically charged poison forever.

Wikileaks is like a TV show that never gets off the ground. We started with a "shoot 'em up" in Iraq, the helicopter slaughter soon forgotten and move on to, well, what? We got a deluge of material from Afghanistan, carefully gleaned to point fingers at Pakistan. When it came down to backing any of it up, it went nowhere.

FROM MENTSCH TO SCHMUCK, THE ROAD TO GOY-DOM By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor What if efforts to stem Antisemitism actually were the primary cause of...

"WINGNUTS"...AMERICA'S "PETS," THEIR CARE AND FEEDING By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Friday, Fox "journalist" Geraldo Rivera, on Judge Napolitano's "Freedom Watch" was interviewed about his...

NATO’s meeting to build political consensus across the alliance for the post-2011 phase of “gradually” handing over security responsibilities to the Afghan forces will be on the table in Lisbon this week. According to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, “The aim is for Afghan forces to be in the lead, countrywide, of security operations by the end of 2014.”

An epic American failure

US SILENCE ON KASHMIR EMBOLDENS INDIAN NATIONALISTS, EMPOWERS TALIBAN By Michael Hughes As ghastly as it was for an Indian diplomat to lexically collate the...

PULLING THE PLUG MIGHT BE A FAVOR By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The internet is not a reliable place for information, in fact, it can...

AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don't exactly know what they are "used to" but every politician in America is terrified of it for some reason, claims to have total control over the new congress.

Improvised Explosive Devices are powerful weapons used by hostile forces in Afghanistan Calculate the Force required for different problem Sets.

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 ...

- Costs of wars are huge and tragic. Will GOP and Tea Party refuse our veterans and families? - By Jamie Reno San Diego, CA (Home Post)...

The tag line of a popular American television series about a US counterterrorism group—“Not every conspiracy...

- I can’t think of anything that would be worse for the US economy, or for Obama’s prospects for a second term, than going...

IF THE ELECTION WERE ONLY "MUSICAL CHAIRS" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor America is now approaching the worst election in its history and it doesn't...

For nearly a decade, America has been, in the eyes of the world, the successor to Nazi Germany. Last week, nearly 77% of Australians polled (over 10,000 respondents) considered the 9/11 terror attacks an American "false flag" and that nation has troops in Afghanistan fighting alongside Americans. Imagine what nations that oppose American involvement think?

Going on Record on Labeling & Labelers Censorship Fanatics Come from All Walks of Life By Sibel Edmonds www.boilingfrogspost.com It is funny and sad at the same...

- War is terror - By Kathy Kelly in t r u t h o u t Kabul - Khamad Jan, age 22, remembers that, as a...

A call to arms, demanding Muslims in America and elsewhere begin a terror campaign, was spread around the world. The message, we are told, was found on a "secret website" by an Israeli company who put it in a press release.

WHO SUPPORTS, WHO BETRAYS AMERICA'S FIGHTING FORCES (CHECK HOW JOHN McCAIN SCORES) By the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America www.IAVA.org Please go to their site for...

Reconciliation itself isn’t the problem. Giving reconciled criminals a legitimate place in the Afghan government - who are paid by foreign interests, are directed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and have never been held to account for their crimes against the Afghan people - is the problem.

STUPIDITY, ONE THING ALL AMERICANS AGREE ON, BUT WHO IS REALLY STUPID? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor "hopelessness, fear and hate and a case of...

The presence of Iranian diplomat in a key international meeting raised concerns over Iran’s controversial role in Afghanistan. It is first time, an Iranian representative attending a meeting on Afghanistan’s development issues organised by an international group. ‘’Iran will attempt to influence international strategies, if it regularly allowed attending such meetings ‘’ A Kabul University student Qadimullah Masoomi expressed his concerns.

Hmm, 38 Times more Cancer than after the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing in 1945! How did the Army pull that off? What weapons did you guys use? Nukes? 4th Gen nukes? How did ya do it?

By Mohammed Abdullah Gul On 25 July 2010, the New York Times carried an explosive story by Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, Eric Schmitt, and Andrew...

Generating ‘high-value targets’ By Dr Khalid Saifullah Everyone would agree that spotting and eliminating terrorists is highly desirable in today’s world of terrorism. Few would disagree...

FLASH:  FOX NEWS EXPOSES 9/11 COVER-UP (VIDEO) By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor "The Supreme Court created a new "corporate"  nobility where, in place of "divine...

ARE YOU FEELING A DRAFT....? By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Today in our country most Americans are detached from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,...

This documentary brings home the shocking cost of war through the eyes of a company of young, energetic US soldiers as they venture into the notorious Korengal Valley in Afghanistan.

When President Obama took office in January, 2009, it was expected he would do as he had promised, end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars he claimed were illegal and immoral, close the prison at Guantanamo, end the drone attacks on Pakistan and restore the constitutional rights lost under the Bush administration through the Patriot Acts and other ill advised legislation.

By Sharon Weinberger AOL News (Oct. 7) -- The sordid tale of thugs, violent crime and greed could have been lifted from a Quentin Tarantino film....

By Hanan Habibzai STAFF WRITER It have been nine years since the U.S led invasion of Afghanistan but the situation in Afghanistan is worsening, gap...

"THE SUICIDE BLUES ARE BREAKIN' UP THAT OLE GAME O' MINE" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor They always march off to war, fanfare, flags, speeches,...

The radioactive 850 rounds a minute automatic weapon is about as big as the period at the end of this sentence, never needs reloading and never jams. It’s a perfect killing machine ...

VT recently published two notices related to Iraq Veterans Against the War's (IVAW's) plan to kick off Operation Recovery their  campaign to defend GIs'...

By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR Afghanistan: The destroyer of communism, defender of Western interests against the Soviets, a crossfire...

HOW MERCHANTS OF DEATH RULE THE WORLD By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Both elements of "Al Qaeda" along with its clear history as a CIA...

Pakistan Blocks NATO Supplies  By Raja G Mujtaba STAFF WRITER/Editor General Aslam Beg, former Army Chief has also come hard, he demanded to shoot down intruding...