by Gareth Porter U.S. Special Operations Forces have been increasingly aiming their night-time raids, which have been the primary cause of Afghan anger at the U.S. military presence, at civilian non- combatants…
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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Going on 10 years, the drone from Washington gets louder
By Debra Sweet It’s difficult to pick out the most disturbing feature of the Obama administration’s expanding use of unmanned drones in its continuing war on “terror” in at least 5 countries….
The Invisible Dead and “The Last Word”: Lawrence O’Donnell ‘Rewrites’ the Occupation of Afghanistan
By Nima Shirazi On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30 American soldiers, including 17 elite Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans. The…
Reflecting on the Afghanistan War Logs Released by WikiLeaks One Year Ago
By Kevin Gosztola One year ago, WikiLeaks released the Afghanistan war logs. Around seventy-six thousand previously classified military reports were released in collaboration with the New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. The contents…
The Needle and the Damage Done: Toxic Fallout From the CIA’s Human Shield Operation
By Chris Floyd When I first saw the stories about the CIA’s super-cunning covert op – setting up a fake vaccination scheme to try to get DNA from Osama bin Laden’s children…
Another NATO Strike Kills 14 Afghan Civilians in Khost
By Jason Ditz NATO air strikes in the Khost Province district of Shamal this morning killed at least 14 civilians including eight children. It was the second strike in the province this…
Our Afghan War: Immoral, Illegal, Ineffective… and It Costs Too Much
I would like to see resolutions passed that say that we must end these wars because they are bankrupting us morally…that the cost of war is too high for our souls. By Leah Bolger…
The Cruel Lie: Bombing To Liberate Women
By Debra Sweet Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies of the United States, the U.S. government turned a cold and deaf…
Killer Drones in Place of War
Drones, with their low cost and low risk, make targeted killing more convenient and more likely. By Doug Noble Ever since becoming involved with the protest activities at Hancock Field I have…
Accidental Killing of 12-Year-Old Afghan Girl Highlights Major Challenge for U.S. Military
By Daphne Eviatar Twelve-year-old Nelofar was shot dead early Thursday morning outside her family’s home in Eastern Afghanistan because NATO troops mistakenly believed that her uncle was a Taliban leader. She was…