By Chris Floyd While Barack Obama busies himself in public with hectoring his "base" for not appreciating the super-progressive wonderfulness of his administration, behind the scenes he is rapidly escalating America’s war…
Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
For More Than Ten Years the Richest Country in the World Has Been “At War” With the Poorest Country in the World
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US Helicopters Attack Pakistan, Killing More Than 50
by Jason Ditz NATO spokesmen are confirming tonight that a pair of US Apache helicopters crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan, launching an attack against tribesmen in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal…
Murderers, Cowards, Morons and Thieves: Portrait of an Empire in a Political Season
By Chris Floyd Jason Ditz at Antiwar.com continues his lonely vigil of documenting the carnage being inflicted upon civilians in Pakistan by the increasingly frenzied drone missile attacks ordered by the Peace…
US Drone Strikes Kill 15 in N. Waziristan
by Juan Cole The Associated Press does an important story about an intensive drone strike campaign by the US military since September 2 in southern Afghanistan and in Pakistan’s North Waziristan…
Children Among 24 Killed as US Drone Strikes Rock Pakistan
By Jason Ditz At least four children were killed today in addition to 20 other “suspected militants” in a series of four US drone strikes against sites tied to the Haqqani militant…
Manhunters, Inc.: The Secret Killers
Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373 By Pratap Chatterjee "Find, fix, finish, and follow-up" is the way the Pentagon describes the mission of secret military teams in Afghanistan which have been…
Wardak Province, Afghanistan: NATO Again Kills Civilians in Night Raid – 300 Civilians Block Roads
by Jason Ditz Angry villagers took to the streets of Wardak Province today and blocked one of the main thoroughfares in the wake of an overnight raid by NATO troops which killed…
52 People Killed Last Friday in Afghanistan – Civilian Deaths and Wikileaks Narrative Continue
By Jon Boone in Kabul and Ali Safi in Kandahar Helmand residents accuse Nato of deliberate attack on civilians • Afghan government says missile killed 52 people • Governor’s spokesman casts doubts…
McChrystal, Petraeus, Obama: the Imperial Bloodbath Continues
By Chris Floyd Some people seem to think that the question of which uniformed goober is in charge of the imperial bloodbath in Afghanistan is a vitally important issue, worthy of…
US Drone Attacks on Pakistan: Smaller Missiles, More Strikes
by Jason Ditz At least six more people were killed today and several wounded in the latest US drone attack against Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency. The attack brought the 2010 total…