by Nick Turse Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops in Afghanistan In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in…
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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Pissing on Afghanistan
by Margaret Kimberley The recently revealed video of American marines urinating on dead Afghans identified as Taliban fighters has sparked much debate, but unfortunately little of it has any value. The usual…
Big Shoulders in Chicago and Kabul
by Kathy Kelly NATO/G8 meetings are scheduled to take place from May 19-21 next year in Chicago. Plans are ramping up everywhere. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and NATO Secretary General Anders…
Escalations in an Endless War
by Debra Sweet A correspondent wrote me yesterday, "what [is]our government and military doing attacking a Pakistani military base? Pakistan is supposed to be our ally in this ten years old crazy war in…
NATO Airstrike Kills 24 Pakistani Soldiers
This article is excerpted from the original on BBC News Pakistan has buried 24 of its troops who were killed in a Nato airstrike at a checkpoint on the Afghan border. The incident…
U.S. Night Raids Killed Over 1,500 Afghan Civilians in Ten Months
by Gareth Porter U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011, analysis of official statistics on the…
Afghanistan: the Worst Place on Earth for Children to be Born and Raised
by Lisa Davis and David Swanson Afghanistan has been engaged with more than 30 years of war with thousands of civilians killed or injured since 2001. It is under these conditions that…
A Low, Dishonest Decade: Marking 10 Years of War
by Chris Floyd Simon Jenkins fires a powerful salvo of scorn and spleen to mark the 10th anniversary of the imperial quagmire in Afghanistan. Among the glories and triumphs of this magnificent…
We Know
By Kathleen Kirwin They disappeared caskets of dead soldiers coming home; cameras out of view. We knew. They did not count all they killed; the killed do not count at all. We…
Spreading the Gust of Fresh Air
by Debra Sweet Standing at #OccupyWallStreet this week, we got a chance to talk with occupiers, supporters, and tourists about the upcoming 10th anniversary of the U.S. bombing and occupation of Afghanistan,…