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With U.S. Aid, Warlord Builds Afghan Empire
By DEXTER FILKINS The most powerful man in this arid stretch of southern Afghanistan is not the provincial governor - It is Matiullah Khan, the head of a private army that earns millions of dollars guarding... ...
Internal report issues black eye for U.S. Embassy in Kabul
The State Department is failing to properly oversee nearly $2 billion in contracts to battle the drug trade, build infrastructure and train police in Afghanistan, according to a bluntly worded internal... ...
USA's Global Military Dominance
Real Reason for Sanctions Against Iran By Eric Sommer The U.S.-sponsored drive to impose new economic sanctions on Iran has nothing to do with the noble cause of limiting proliferation of nuclear weapons... ...
9/11, Deep Events, and the Curtailment of U.S. Freedoms
By Prof Peter Dale Scott The war on terror and the war on drugs have this in common: both are ideological attempts to justify the needless killings of thousands - including both American troops and foreign... ...
Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade
By Glen Ford The U.S. set the stage for the Afghan (and Pakistan) war eight years ago, when it handed out drug dealing franchises to warlords on Washington's payroll. Now the Americans, acting as Boss... ...
Is Obama Just Another Politician?
"Now Make Me Do It" By Ralph Nader Never much of a fighter against abusive corporate power, Barack Obama is making it increasingly clear that right from his start as President, he wanted health insurance... ...
Who is Funding the Afghan Taliban?
You Don't Want to Know By Jean MacKenzie Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban themselves prefer to term it, "spoils of war," the fact remains that international donors, primarily... ...
Admiral: Anti-drug effort in Afghanistan a failure
Agence France-Presse 05/21/09 N ATO has failed to stem the vast opium trade in Afghanistan that helps finance Taliban insurgents despite an eight-year effort, the top US military officer said on Thursday.... ...
People Before Politics!
By Cindy Sheehan Politicians, whether Democrats or Republicans, place their own self-interest as their highest priority. Because our society is sharply divided between the "haves," who enjoy a monopoly... ...
Drug Trade Group Spent $22 Million Lobbying
Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press, reports: "The pharmaceutical industry's main trade group spent more than $22 million lobbying the federal government in 2007, a 25 percent boost from the year before... ...