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US Empire's Afghan Ponzi Scheme Comes to Ignoble End

rudkla — 2021-08-14T03:45:00Z

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US Violence Breeds a Language of the Grotesque

rudkla — 2015-10-14T06:03:00Z

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/13/us-violence-breeds-language-grotesque

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Afghanistan: The Longest War in US History

rudkla — 2010-06-08T03:31:00Z

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/07-0

Congressman Dennis Kucinich Asks: ‘Is the U.S. Paying for Attacks on U.S. Troops?'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/07-1

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Americans swell the toll, highest of year
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2010/06/08/12_troops_killed_in_afghan_attacks/

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With U.S. Aid, Warlord Builds Afghan Empire

rudkla — 2010-06-07T03:47:00Z

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 NATO supply convoys and fights Taliban insurgents alongside American Special Forces.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25640.htm

We Don't Feel Free

An Afghan Women Writes To The President

By Shogofa

We don't feel comfortable in our own country. It is like we are strangers in our own home.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25639.htm

Russia Says Afghan Drug Trade Threatens World Peace

In Russia, Ivanov has said that opium consumption is having a destabilizing effect and that 30,000 addicts die each year from narcotics like heroin.

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Russia-Says-Afghan-Drug-Trade-Threatens-World-Peace-95719289.html

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US enriches 'semiofficial warlord' probably playing double game
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9706/

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Armadillo: the Afghanistan war documentary that shocked Denmark

rudkla — 2010-06-05T03:51:00Z

In Denmark, the press and public have been stunned by Armadillo, Janus Metz's documentary about a UK-Danish base in Afghanistan, and the actions of the soldiers based there.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/03/armadillo-danish-documentary-afghanistan

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Doubling Down in Afghanistan: Why We Refuse to Fold a Losing Hand

rudkla — 2010-06-03T21:13:00Z

William J. Astore, TomDispatch: "As Congress moves toward rubber-stamping yet another 'emergency' supplemental bill that includes more than $33 billion for military operations, mainly to fund the latest surge in Afghanistan, maybe we should take a page from the new British government. Facing debilitating deficits, the conservative Tories and their Liberal Democrat partners are proposing painful cuts to governmental budgets, including military operations in Afghanistan."

http://www.truthout.org/doubling-down-afghanistan-why-we-refuse-fold-a-losing-hand60100

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No Exit at Kandahar

rudkla — 2010-06-03T07:28:16Z

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shirtz/shirtz23.1.html

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Interpreting Afghanistan

rudkla — 2010-06-01T07:16:00Z

Boston Globe
by H.D.S. Greenway

06/01/10

Reading carefully between the lines of President Obama’s speech at West Point last year, in which he laid out his war plans, I thought I heard an echo of Mikhail Gorbachev when he told his generals that they had a couple of years to turn things around in Afghanistan. If they couldn’t, Russia’s army would come home. One saw ambiguity in Obama’s thoughts when he ordered a troop surge, only to say he would begin withdrawing in the summer of 2011. Oh, the caveats were quickly made that he had meant only the beginning of a withdrawal, and that circumstances would dictate its pace. But the damage was done for those careful listeners in Kabul, Islamabad, New Delhi, and the countries in the region. The United States might be surging, but the country wasn’t in for a hundred-year effort to establish a protectorate as the British had done more than a century before...

http://tinyurl.com/26ycvv5

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Terror link alleged as Saudi millions flow into Afghanistan war zone:

Millions of dollars of Saudi Arabian money have flowed into Afghanistan over the past four years, the country's intelligence officials say, with the sponsorship of terrorism its most likely use.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7140745.ece

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Afghanistan: The case for negotiations

rudkla — 2010-05-27T08:08:00Z

In These Times
by Gilles Dorronsoro

05/24/10

The coalition’s strategy in Afghanistan is at an impasse. The renewed efforts undertaken since the summer of 2009 have failed to temper the guerrilla war. A few tactical successes are possible, but this war cannot be won. The coalition cannot defeat the Taliban as long as Pakistan continues to offer them sanctuary. And increasing resources to wage the war is not an option. The costs of continuing the war — to use Ambassador Karl Eikenberry’s expression in the leaked telegram to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — are ‘astronomical’...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6011/the_case_for_negotiations

War in Afghanistan set to outlast Vietnam

USA Today

05/31/10

Three months after 9/11, every major Taliban city in Afghanistan had fallen — first Mazar-i-Sharif, then Kabul, finally Kandahar. Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar were on the run. It looked as if the war was over, and the Americans and their Afghan allies had won. Butch Ivie, then a school administrator in Winfield, Ala., remembers: ‘We thought we’d soon have it tied up in a neat little bag.’ But bin Laden and Omar eluded capture. The Taliban regrouped. Today, Kandahar again is up for grabs. And Afghanistan soon will pass Vietnam as America’s longest war...

http://tinyurl.com/2bemulk

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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More US Troops in Afghanistan Than Iraq: Pentagon

rudkla — 2010-05-25T05:21:00Z

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British defence minister on Afghan visit calls for troop withdrawal

rudkla — 2010-05-24T07:14:00Z

Senior British officials, including new Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in Afghanistan Saturday with a warning that Britain wants to withdraw its troops as soon as possible.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1058373/1/.html

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1,000 Dead Americans in Afghanistan

rudkla — 2010-05-19T07:36:00Z

http://act.commondreams.org/go/668?akid=60.124981.vhiFFW&t=20

$33 Billion More for Afghan War
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/05/19-0

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Die Bundeswehr im Kriegseinsatz in Afghanistan

rudkla — 2010-05-18T06:53:00Z

"Die Bundeswehr im Kriegseinsatz in Afghanistan - Die militärische Situation
2010 für Deutschland"

Referent: Jürgen Rose, Oberstleutnant a.D. - (Buch: "Ernstfall Angriffskrieg")

Dienstag, 8. Juni 2010, 19.30 Uhr - Einlass 19:00 Uhr - Der Eintritt ist frei
In den Räumen des Hansa-Hauses, Brienner Str. 39, Rgb., (Rahnstüberl) MVV-Haltestellen: Königsplatz (U2) oder Stiglmaierplatz (U1/Tram 20+21)

Kurzzusammenfassung durch den Referenten:

"Bis zu 50 000 Opfer, vorwiegend Zivilisten, forderte der Krieg in Afghanistan seit 2001. Eine schleichende Eskalation des Krieges ist festzustellen. In Bagram gibt es ein Foltergefängnis. Armut und Hunger haben laut UN-Berichten erschreckende Ausmaße angenommen. Die Geschehnisse in Afghanistan erinnern zunehmend an den Irakkrieg.

Der Referent Jürgen Rose befasste sich als Pädagoge, Publizist und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter mit sicherheitspolitischen Fragestellungen - u. a. am Institut für Internationale Politik, Sicherheitspolitik, Wehrrecht und Völkerrecht an der Universität der Bundeswehr München und am George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.

2007 verweigerte Rose seine Mitarbeit an Unterstützungsleistungen zum Tornadoeinsatz in Afghanistan. Er wird u.a. darüber berichten, welche Aufgaben die mit deutschem Personal besetzten Tornados und AWACS in diesem Krieg übernehmen - und wie diese Einsätze für die deutsche Öffentlichkeit verharmlost werden.

Rose stellt die Frage nach den Zielen der Kämpfe: Geht es um die Aufrechterhaltung der Sicherheit in Afghanistan zum Schutz der Bevölkerung und zur Abwehr von islamischen Extremisten oder geht es um geopolitische Interessen?"

Referent: Jürgen Rose, geb. 18. Juli 1958, Diplom-Pädagoge und Publizist, ist seit fast dreißig Jahren als Seminarleiter und Dozent bei akademischen Veranstaltungen in der gesamten Bundesrepublik Deutschland, in England, Österreich und der Schweiz tätig. Er ist Mitglied im AK »Darmstädter Signal«, einem Arbeitskreis kritischer Offiziere und Unteroffiziere innerhalb der Bundeswehr. Seine militärische Ausbildung erfolgte u.a. in Fort Bliss, Texas/USA.

Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Rose_%28Publizist%29

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Di., 14. Sept. 2010, 19.30 Uhr "Nanotechnologie in verbrauchernahen Produkten"

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27. Mai 2010

Bundeswehr führt in Afghanistan einen Wirtschaftskrieg

Der Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Klaus Ernst fordert nach den umstrittenen Äußerungen von Bundespräsident Köhler eine Neuabstimmung des Bundestags über den Afghanistan-Einsatz der Bundeswehr. Weder die Mandate noch die Verfassung deckten Wirtschaftskriege ab, so Ernst. Er erklärt:

Das war kein Missverständnis. Köhler hat offen gesagt, was nicht zu leugnen ist. In Afghanistan riskieren Bundeswehr-Soldaten Gesundheit und Leben für die Exportinteressen riesiger Konzerne. Die laute Kritik der SPD soll nur von der Verantwortung der Sozialdemokraten für dieses militärische Abenteuer ablenken. Das ist kein friedenssichernder Einsatz sondern ein Krieg um Einfluss und Rohstoffe. Die Afghanistan-Mandate des Bundestags decken die Realität am Hindukusch nicht ab. Das Grundgesetz erlaubt der Bundeswehr keine Wirtschaftskriege. Mit Krieg schafft man keinen Frieden. Die Bundeswehr muss aus Afghanistan abziehen. So will es die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung. Der Einsatz muss so schnell wie möglich neu im Parlament abgestimmt werden. Dann muss jeder Abgeordnete vor seinem Gewissen verantworten, ob er unsere Soldaten in einen Krieg schicken will, der den Exportinteressen deutscher Unternehmen dient.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/bundeswehr-fuehrt-in-afghanistan-einen-wirtschaftskrieg/

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The Inevitable Collapse of McChrystal's Afghan War Plan

rudkla — 2010-05-15T04:01:00Z

The President ignored Sun Tzu's timeless wisdom, when he approved McChrystal's fatally flawed plan, despite the cabled warnings of retired Army general Karl Eikenberry, his ambassador to Afghanistan.

http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney05132010.html

Afghan private security firms fuelling corruption, warns British commander

Private security companies are operating in a "culture of impunity" that is encouraging lawlessness and corruption, Britain's most senior commander in southern Afghanistan warned today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/13/afghanistan-private-security-firms

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Progressive Democrats of America (PDA): Protests Nationwide Oppose $33 Billion to Escalate Afghan War

http://act.commondreams.org/go/656?akid=59.124981.HG8OGR&t=30

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Tunnel darkens for Obama’s Afghan War

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

05/17/10

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in London Saturday as US generals express doubts that they are having any success in fighting the Taliban. The US and NATO commander in Afghanistan Gen Stanley McChrystal, who was boasting of military progress only three months ago, confessed last week that ‘nobody is winning.’ His only claim now is that the Taliban have lost momentum compared to last year. Karzai’s reception in London and Washington highlights the political dilemma of the US and UK in Afghanistan since both have more or less openly denounced the corruption of his regime and the mass fraud at the polls by which he was re-elected last year...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick05172010.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Protests as Afghans say NATO killed 12 civilians

rudkla — 2010-05-15T03:55:00Z

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said in a faxed statement that ten "innocent people" were killed in the Surkh Rod village of Saydan, and that he "strongly condemned" the operation.

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Afghan protest turns violent

One Afghan protester has been killed in eastern part of the country as thousands of people were protesting against the killing of 11 civilians by US-led troops.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=126464&sectionid=351020403

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