US official: CIA runs elite well-paid Afghan fighting force
Kimberly Dozier and Adam Goodman Associated Press WASHINGTON – The CIA has trained and bankrolled a well-paid force of elite Afghan paramilitaries for nearly eight…
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Bombshell From London: Threat from Al-Qaeda and Taliban deliberately “exaggerated”
Eric S. Margolis The Sun Daily THE London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents…
Twelve U.S. soldiers face trial after Afghan civilians ‘were killed for sport and their fingers collected as trophies’
The Daily Mail A dozen US soldiers are facing trail accused of being part of a ‘kill team’ that allegedly killed Afghan civilians in an…
Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets
Scott Shane The New York Times WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of…
Will Americans Pay to Bailout Yet Another Foreign Bank … in Afghanistan?
Washington’s Blog As I have repeatedly pointed out, American taxpayers have been bailing out foreign banks for years. For example, I noted in May: As the Wall…
Privatizing the Occupation: The Mercenaries and the NGOs
Yves Engler Counter Punch Market extremists argue that the private sector can do almost everything better than governments. The most extreme do not concede the…
Why the Wars Can’t be Won
Prof. John Kozy Global Research Edmund Burke’s statement, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is frequently cited, but in truth, even…
Poll: Opposition to Wars at All Time High
Press TV A new opinion poll says the number of Americans opposed to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is at an all time…
Five Absurd Things That Simply Can’t Happen in Wartime Washington
Tom Engelhardt Tom’s Dispatch The other day I visited a website I check regularly for all things military, Noah Shachtman’s Danger Room blog at Wired…
Afghanistan finds 1.8 billion barrel oilfield
Sayed Salahuddin Reuters Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country,…
Pentagon Holding U.S. Hostage to Endless Wars
Sherwood Ross OpEdNews Besides holding Afghanistan and Iraq hostage, the Pentagon today is holding American civilization itself hostage to its imperial designs. That’s because war…
Historic Voter Volatility in This Year of Fear
Wall Street Journal It’s becoming increasingly clear that Americans aren’t simply in the midst of hard times. They are in the midst of one of…
Afghanistan to Expel U.S. Security Firms
Press TV Afghan President Hamid Karzai is set to call on Washington and its allies to shut down their private security companies in the violence-stricken…
Wikileaks, Legitimate Whistleblowers or CointelPro?
Alex Thomas The Intel Hub I have received multiple tips from our sources that indicate Wikileaks is part of a massive government operation. Rather than…