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A GLOBAL NUCLEAR TINDERBOX FUELED BY ISRAEL By Alan Hart  (LISA Seminar on 14 July 2010) "Among the questions open and honest dialogue would need to...

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...

 INDIA: Dominance of Hindu Taliban By  Brig Asif Haroon Raja for VT and Opinion Maker  A famous Indian proverb about its mean mentality, “ooper say raam...

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...

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 Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR Afghanistan is to convene a grand tribal convention for a consensus with the Taliban—ones who can peel away...

AMERICA MUST SWALLOW ITS EGO; LET THE WISDOM PREVAIL By General Mirza Aslam Beg General McChrystal, having read ’s Memoirs, has opted for the new strategy...

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...

Normally, if two countries with powerful nuclear arsenals were openly musing about attacking a third country over mere suspicions that it might want to join the nuclear club, we’d tend to sympathize with the non-nuclear underdog as the victim of bullying and possible aggression.

THE "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" IS DEAD LEARN SOME OF THE "WHY" BEING KEPT FROM YOU By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State...

CORRUPTION AND MILITARY GAME PLAYING CLOUD WAR OBJECTIVES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor www.veteranstoday.com March 3, 2010 Sandwiched in a region of gas, oil, copper and coal...

The Afghan human rights commission reported that 28 civilians had been killed so far in NATO's offensive on Marja, AP reports. The commission based its numbers on witness reports. NATO has confirmed at least 16 civilian deaths.

The treatment of Iran’s election last June, the depictions of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the [IranMap] alarm over Iran’s nuclear program all parallel the one-sided coverage that the U.S. news media directed toward Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Iraq’s alleged WMD program before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

"HOMELAND IN PALESTINE" HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH ZIONISM By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor As an editor and writer for a military, veterans and foreign...

Across southern Afghanistan, including the Marjah district where coalition forces are massing for a large offensive, the line between peaceful villager and enemy fighter is often blurred, the Wall Street Journal reports. The commander of the US unit responsible for Pashmul estimates that about 95% of the locals are Taliban or aid the militants.

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...

So it was, undoubtedly, with New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, who accompanied Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as he stumbled through a challenge-filled, error-prone two-day trip to Pakistan. Gates must have felt a little like a punching bag by the time he boarded his plane for home having, as Juan Cole pointed out, managed to signal “that the U.S. is now increasingly tilting to India and wants to put it in charge of Afghanistan security; that Pakistan is isolated… and that Pakistani conspiracy theories about Blackwater were perfectly correct and he had admitted it. In baseball terms, Gates struck out.”

Last week's breakin at Senator Mary Landrieu's office in the New Orleans Federal Building was more than it seemed, much more. All of the 4 arrested had been trained by the CIA and, possibly, Israel. One arrested, Stan Dai, is listed as an Operations Officer of the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Program and a known expert and lecturer on, not only surveillance but explosives training, assassinations and "false flag operations."

These larger groups are partially divided as Northern Pashtun, Southern Pashtun, Northern Tajik, Western Tajik, Southwestern Tajik, etc., etc, and the list goes on. Further, the many mini-tribes each have their own, independent tribal leaders, tribal laws to fit their local conditions, and a fierce determination to protect their real or imagined boundaries and their real or imagined ability to traverse wherever they wish, whenever they wish.

Coal is the biggest single source of greenhouse gases. China and India are now huge consumers of coal, and their appetite is growing. "As long as economic development is a priority," says Morse, "I think climate takes a back seat, and in that situation, coal is going to win every time."

Poverty, misery, dictators, anarchy, Soviets, Mujaheedin, Intelligence Agencies, Taliban, Warlords, and now NATO, a time line, as lengthy as my age, 50 years, was before my eyes, I could hardly recall a moment when Afghanistan was smiling.

USA’s new “Turn”…!!!  By Sajid Ansari for VT  After lots of drum-beating of “war-on-terror” and Al-Qaida, for 9 years, which is nowadays under heavy criticism, at...

BLACKWATER/XE ACCUSED OF COMPLICITY IN TERRORISM AND WAR AGAINST US TROOPS TOP TALIBAN MILITANTS RECEIVE MEDICAL CARE AT BAGRAM AIR FORCE BASE From Sabrina Elkhani &...

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...

THAT POSSIBLE INDIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENT PLACED BOMBER ON PLANE VERIFIED: DUTCH POLICE LOOKING FOR ACCOMPLICE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor (and attributed sources) Reuters reports...