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April 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: On this Tax Day, many Americans are likely taking a moment to consider the costs associated with funding the public services that, among other things, keep our air and water clean, create educational opportunities for our children, and provide financial security to our most vulnerable fellow citizens. Although no one likes to pay taxes, most Americans understand that our country is stronger because we collectively fund our national priorities and promote the common good. Full news...
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April 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Post: Just ask Vice President Joe Biden about corruption in Afghanistan. During a now-famous dinner with Hamid Karzai during the 2008 U.S. election year, then-Sen. Biden questioned the Afghan president about corruption in his government. Karzai assured him that reports had been overblown by the Western media. Biden threw down his napkin and walked out. Full news...
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April 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Harvard International Review: It is an open secret today that the US is the god-father of Islamic fundamentalism in the region. All terrorist fundamentalist groups from Al-Qaeda to the Taliban and our warlords of the Northern Alliance were created, funded, and nourished by the CIA during the cold war. The green belt of extremism and Jihad concept, which was funded and implemented by the CIA through ISI of Pakistan, has caused all of the current problems, and the US still needs these groups to advance its long-term war agenda in the region. Full news...
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April 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: “Black sites,” the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone. But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogated for weeks without charge, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the top-secret network to The Associated Press. Full news...
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April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: A night raid by NATO-led forces killed six civilians in the relatively peaceful northern Afghan province of Sar-e-Pul, local officials said Tuesday, but a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said the dead were Taliban insurgents armed with AK-47 assault rifles. The disagreement adds to the debate surrounding night raids, which have become a centerpiece of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan... Full news...
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April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman was killed and another woman and a child were wounded when they were hit by a vehicle of foreign troops in Kabul on Wednesday, police said. The accident happened when a military vehicle belonging to NATO-led soldiers collided with a civilian car on the Darul Aman road in the limits of sixth police district, crime branch police chief, Col. Mohammad Zahir, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of a district in central Kabul province on Monday accused foreign troops of killing a shopkeeper and taking away his son during an overnight raid. The incident happened Sunday night in Chaar Asyab district of Kabul when NATO-led troops attacked the house of Yasin, a relative, Ghulam Rassoul, said. Full news...
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March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New York Times: Despite improvements, more than half of the Pentagon’s big weapons systems still cost more than they should, with management failures adding at least 70 billion USD to the projected costs over the last two years, government auditors said Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office, a Congressional watchdog, said the biggest program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, accounted for 28 billion USD of that increase. Full news...
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March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Rolling Stone: Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji. Among the men of Bravo Company, the notion of killing an Afghan civilian had been the subject of countless conversations, during lunchtime chats and late-night bull sessions. Full news...
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March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The international coalition arrested nine members of a family, including an imam, and took them to their base in central Logar province, an official said on Monday. “The people taken from Wazir Qala were ordinary people, but the foreigners said they recovered a Kalashnikov from the house, and that the people had links with the Taliban,” he said. Full news...
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March 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Seven civilians, three of them children, were killed and five others wounded in a NATO air strike targeting insurgents in restive southern Afghanistan, a local official said Saturday. The governor of Helmand province said the two men, two women and three children died when the car they were travelling in was hit by NATO fire late Friday. Full news...
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March 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UPI: NATO said Thursday it will investigate a police claim a NATO helicopter gunship targeting terrorists killed a child in the eastern Afghan Khost province. Coalition forces opened fire from the attack helicopter on a car carrying a group of suspected Haqqani network terrorists Wednesday but accidentally hit another vehicle, killing the child, Khost Police Chief Abdul Hakim Esahaqaai told reporters. Full news...
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March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SocialistWorker.org: IT SEEMS like a ludicrous claim now, but when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan nearly 10 years ago in the “war on terror,” one of the most potent justifications was to liberate Afghan women. George W. Bush lined up a group of influential women, including his wife Laura and liberal feminist organizations like the Feminist Majority Foundation, to press the case... Full news...
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March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters UK: Most Britons are unclear about what the government’s goals are in Afghanistan and only one in four believe the current strategy is working well, a poll published on Wednesday on behalf of leading aid groups showed. The survey comes only a day after a separate poll found that just one in three Britons were in favour of a decision to take military action in Libya. Full news...
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March 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of “trophy” photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed. Senior officials at Nato’s International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly Der Spiegel to the images of US soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq which sparked waves of anti-US protests around the world. Full news...
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March 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Boston Globe Blog: Malalai Joya is a 32-year-old Afghan woman named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Foreign Policy Magazine listed her on its annual list of Top 100 Global Thinkers, and last week The Guardian listed her among the “Top 100 women: activists and campaigners” in the world. So why is the U.S. State Department refusing to let Ms. Joya visit our country? Full news...
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March 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: The US government has denied an entry visa to Malalai Joya for her upcoming book tour for “A Woman Among Warlords”. According to a press statement released Joya, she was denied entry into the US because, “She was ‘unemployed’ and ‘lives underground’… Because of her harsh criticism of warlords and fundamentalists in Afghanistan, she has been the target of at least five assassination attempts.” Full news...
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March 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: An Afghan warlord backed by US special forces faces persistent allegations that he launched a two-year spate of violence involving burglary, rape and murder of civilians, desecration of mosques and mutilation of corpses. Yet, despite repeated warnings about the atrocities Commander Azizullah is alleged to have committed, he has remained on the payroll of the US military... Full news...
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March 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of the Sawakai district in eastern Kunar province on Thursday declared a three-day mourning period for victims of a coalition airstrike. They also announced suspension of work in public and private sectors for the same period in protest against the air raid that killed two teenage boys watering their farmland two days ago, Shah Jehan, a resident said. Full news...
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March 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: It was two o’clock in the morning on Feb. 15. Mullah Abdul Khaliq, who taught at a local school here in Nawa district, was asleep with his family when the helicopters began circling overhead. “We could not leave our houses,” said Abdullah, a neighbor of Mullah Khaliq’s. Full news...
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March 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Nearly 300 foreign advisers, most of them Americans, work at Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, and hundreds more work in other government departments, a reliance on foreign expertise that raises doubts about the viability of the West’s exit strategy. Afghan President Hamid Karzai will announce later this month his plans for “transition” from heavy international involvement in Afghanistan’s governance and security to local control. Full news...
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March 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A vehicle of foreign troops traveling in a convoy crushed to death a child in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place in the Chawni area of Kandahar City, the provincial capital, on Saturday afternoon, Zalmay Ayubi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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March 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An investigation has been launched to determine whether the victims were civilians or militants, the governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The men, who were killed in the overnight operation in Gul Bagh area on the outskirts of Jalalabad, were brothers, said a tribal elder, Ghulam Nabi. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: One woman died and another was injured when soldiers from the NATO-led coalition opened fire in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said. The International Security Assistance Force said it was investigating the incident, but that a preliminary report showed the two women were over a kilometer away from where the firing took place. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A sharp jump in assassinations and a rise in suicide and roadside bombings in Afghanistan last year led to an increase in civilian casualties, the United Nations said Wednesday. The United Nations documented 2,777 civilian deaths in 2010, which it said was a 15 percent rise over the number killed in fighting the previous year. Full news...
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March 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: While we have been fixated on successive Arab breakthroughs and victories against tyranny and extremism, Washington is failing miserably but discreetly in Afghanistan. The American media’s one-obsession-at-a-time coverage of global affairs might have put the spotlight on President Obama’s slow and poor reaction to the breathtaking developments starting in Tunisia and Egypt. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Hundreds of Afghans held a massive protest against the United States in the downtown area of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Sunday, demanding an end of the U.S. role in Afghanistan.“The involvement of the US government in Afghanistan, that has a long history of cruelty, has not improved conditions in the country, but increased corruption, poverty, murders, poppy cultivation and trafficking,” says the pamphlet handed out by the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan, the organizer of the protests. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Two of Nasim’s sons went into the hills to collect firewood last week to warm the family’s humble home against the biting Afghan winter chill. They never returned, killed along with seven other children in a NATO air strike. “The Americans are wild,” said the boys’ father, who uses only one name and whose sons were aged 11 and 12, crying as he spoke. “They don't value humanity and don’t care about our children. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: When one looks across the Arab world today at the stunning spontaneous democracy uprisings, it is impossible to not ask: What are we doing spending 110 billion USD this year supporting corrupt and unpopular regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan that are almost identical to the governments we’re applauding the Arab people for overthrowing? Full news...
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March 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Fresh from the reported killing of more than 60 civilians, U.S. forces in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, killed nine boys gathering firewood on a mountainside. General Petraeus says he’s sorry. Too little, too late, general. Nine boys now lie among thousands of others who had a right to life independent of U.S. goals in Afghanistan, and “sorry” doesn’t cut it, especially from the general who's tripling the air war over Afghanistan. Full news...
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