Afghanistan

TeleSur | – – On Wednesday U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said the U.S. would withhold US$255 million in assistance to Pakistan. U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert announced Thursday it would freeze nearly all security aid to Pakistan until “the Pakistani government takes decisive action” against terrorist groups. Although Nauert did not […]

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How Hawks and ambitious Generals pioneered our generational Warfare

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By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I remember the day President Obama let me down. It was December 1, 2009, and as soon as the young president took the podium at West Point and — calm and cool as ever — announced a new troop surge in Afghanistan, I knew. There wasn’t […]

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The Unlikely Industry Empowering Women in Afghanistan

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By Ruchi Kumar | (Yes! Magazine) | = = In this deeply conservative society, these women are busting stereotypes every day. The typical depiction of an Afghan woman looks like this: Timid and fearful, she is a victim of her extremely conservative and regressive society, unable to move around or do much without a man. […]

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All Trump’s Mideast Wars: 26,000 troops overseas

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By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net | From Washington to Cairo, military aggression and “keeping the lid on” are proving deadly. And they will never work. Nov. 25, 2017: al Rawda mosque where a terrorist attack took place in Bir al-Abed of North Sinai, Egypt. The death toll in the terrorist attack here on Friday […]

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Trump’s Bluster meets the Afghanistan Reality amid Troop Escalation

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By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and — so they insist — win. “The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, […]

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Extremists, So-Called Muslims, bomb Mosques in Afghanistan, Killing Dozens

Juan Cole

TeleSur | – – Over the past week, the Taliban has led a number of attacks in the country. Suicide bombers have attacked two mosques in Afghanistan, killing at least 72 people, including several children. In Kabul, a bomber detonated an explosive in a Shia mosque during Friday prayers. The interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said […]

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“Tell me how this Ends”- Gen. Petraeus has decided Forever War Doesn’t

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Will we bequeath Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Korea to our Grandchildren?

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How “ghost soldiers” could frustrate Trump’s plans for Afghanistan

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The endemic problem of corruption may prove a stumbling block on the long road to stability

Afghanistan

What if we Gave Seven Wars and No Americans Noticed?

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By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Consider, if you will, these two indisputable facts. First, the United States is today more or less permanently engaged in hostilities in not one faraway place, but at least seven. Second, the vast majority of the American people could not care less. Nor can it be […]