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Afghanistan War May End By 2024… Maybe

Afghanistan War May End By 2024… Maybe

Hamid Karzai has let the Pentagon’s cat out of the bag — to the displeasure of the Obama Administration. …

Boston Baked BS: It Goes So Well With Turkeys When They’ve Come Home To Roost

Boston Baked BS: It Goes So Well With Turkeys When They’ve Come Home To Roost

Virtually unremarked in the mainstream media uproar about the Boston Marathon deaths was their connection to past American foreign policy blunders: the CIA’s Arab Afghan Legion, and one of its…

Boston Marathon, this thing called terrorism, and the United States

Boston Marathon, this thing called terrorism, and the United States

To put an end to anti-American terrorism, the U.S. is going to have to learn to live without unending war against the world. There’s no other defense against a couple…

Accidental Alchemy: Forging the Taliban into Effective Governance by Default

Accidental Alchemy: Forging the Taliban into Effective Governance by Default

Afghanistan stands on the cusp of a decision. They can bury the elders and ignore their ways as the Karzai government spirals deeper into corruption, or they can move…

When Idols Turn to Sand: How the West Nearly Killed Malala Yousafzai

When Idols Turn to Sand: How the West Nearly Killed Malala Yousafzai

When the world should have viewed her as a child, they made her a symbol. Rather than caution her on diplomacy, the world encouraged her brazen outcries. Rather than…

American Frankenstein: The Haqqani Revival

American Frankenstein: The Haqqani Revival

No travesty has been more avoidable or iconic than America’s involvement and mishandling of Jalaluddin Haqqani…

Afghanistan: Manufacturing the American Legacy

Afghanistan: Manufacturing the American Legacy

The US-led overthrow of this government paved the way for the coming to power of Islamic fundamentalist forces, which led directly to the awful Taliban.…

Algerian Kidnappers Demand Release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

Algerian Kidnappers Demand Release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

The bottom line is Dr Aafia Siddiqui should not be in prison, and as long as this injustice continues, she will become a rallying call for anyone who wants to…

Stability in Afghanistan: The Challenges to Security

The conditions at the moment do not give us a promising situation of Afghanistan in future.…

India’s Role in Afghanistan: Past Relations and Future Prospects

India’s role in Afghanistan may greatly increase subsequent to the withdrawal of international troops by 2014, and needs to be carefully considered by Indian policy makers.…

Book Review: ‘The Wars of Afghanistan’

In spite of all this criticism, The Wars of Afghanistan is a strong historical base for understanding what is happening in the region. …

U.S. Drone Strikes: Of Backward Nations and Modern Nations

U.S. Drone Strikes: Of Backward Nations and Modern Nations

The United States is planning to continue its policy of assassinating individuals, via drone attacks, for the foreseeable future.…

Obama’s War Record

Obama’s War Record

When Sen. Barack Obama ran for the presidency in 2008, many wishful-thinking Democratic voters viewed him as a peace candidate.…

Anthony Schaffer: NATO Complicit in Afghan Opium Trade

Anthony Schaffer, in an interview with RT, discusses the failure of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and NATO's complicity in the Afghan opium trade.…

Inside Story: US 2012 – Was the Afghan surge a complete failure?

New data suggests the Afghan surge has been a military failure. What role will it then play in the upcoming elections? Shihab Rattansi speaks to Lieutenant colonel Tony Shaffer, Frances…

I Almost Feel Sorry for the American Military in Afghanistan

I Almost Feel Sorry for the American Military in Afghanistan

The Afghan people must be made to understand that bombing them, invading them, and occupying them for 11 years are all for their own good. It's called "freedom and democracy".…

That Defining Moment: On Anti-Muslim Films, Cartoons and My Gaza Neighbor

Those who insist on placing ‘Muslim rage’ (the cover story of a recent Newsweek edition) within some futile discussion over freedom of speech are only confusing the issue.…

Reality Check: Afghan Attacks on U.S. Soldiers “trending” in the Wrong Direction

Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the situation in Afghanistan is trending in the wrong direction and what President Obama says about these so called "Green on…

‘US created forces it spends money fighting against’ – Taliban ex-captive

Jere Van Dyk is a former TV correspondent and Taliban expert (and was once held captive by them). He believes the Taliban is poorly understood in the West, but that…

The Two Nations of Afghanistan: Economic Issues Post-Coalition Withdrawal

The Northern Afghanistan entrepreneurial spirit offers a clear way forward for this country; not to simply survive but to prosper. …

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