Tag: Afghanistan
Afghan Peace is Now About the Art of the Possible,...
Posted by Ben Acheson | Apr 25, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics | 4 |
Who Will Tell the Truth About the So-Called ‘Free ...
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, Science, US | 13 |
Diagnosing the Impasse in the Afghan Peace Process
Posted by Ahmad Murid Partaw | Jan 15, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics | 1 |
Should the US Make Peace with the Taliban?
Posted by Wahab Raofi | Jan 3, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US | 0 |
Afghanistan’s Economic Problems and Insidious Deve...
Posted by Obaidullah Burhani | Oct 25, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Essays, Politics | 0 |
Why Do Taliban Continue to Kill If They Are Serious about Peace?
by Ghulam Farooq Mujaddidi | Jun 12, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Politics, Viewpoints
The Taliban must alter their zero-sum mentality and seriously commit to bringing peace to Afghanistan before it is too late.
Afghan Peace is Now About the Art of the Possible, Not the Perfect
by Ben Acheson | Apr 25, 2020 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics
The current political crisis in Afghanistan is actually an important step towards a realistic peaceful solution: a political “unsettlement”.
Who Will Tell the Truth About the So-Called ‘Free Press’?
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured, News & Analysis, Politics, Science, US
The US corporate media dangerously accuse alternative sources of propagating “fake news” to maintain their own dominance as purveyors of misinformation.
Why War Deaths Increase After Wars
by David Swanson | Nov 18, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
It would be more difficult for the US government to continually wage senseless wars if the estimated millions of dead received more attention.
CIA: The History of Deception
by Sam Chester | Nov 1, 2019 | Americas, Asia Pacific, Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
The thing that makes the CIA such a threat to the world is how the agency gets off scot-free time and again no matter how egregious its activities.
Peace in Afghanistan
by David Swanson | Oct 26, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
The peace activists in Afghanistan need the American people to do more to protest the US government’s war in their country.
The Obama Wars
by David Swanson | Jul 11, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
When the Journalists Ganged Up on Assange They Ganged Up on Themselves
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 7, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Without free speech there is tyranny, and the road to tyranny is the road the United States and its Western vassals are on.
Afghanistan’s Keys to Peace Lie Within Its Own Government and in Pakistan
by Wahab Raofi | Jun 3, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Politics, Viewpoints
Peace will not come to Afghanistan until it develops an effective government that is able to come to terms with its neighbor Pakistan.
Closing Military Bases, Opening a New World
by David Swanson | May 3, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
The US has built an empire of military bases around the globe, but the good news is that popular activism can get bases shut down.
Savagery and Its Promoters and Profiteers
by David Swanson | Apr 27, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, Reviews, US, Viewpoints
The Management of Savagery does what author Max Blumenthal promises and more, showing us why and how people have been duped by war promoters and profiteers.
When Truth-Tellers Must Hide, Societies Collapse
by Wahab Raofi | Apr 16, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Culture, Viewpoints
Nashenas, an Afghan who had to hide his identity to exercise his freedom of speech, exemplifies the dangerous trend toward squelching free speech.
Diagnosing the Impasse in the Afghan Peace Process
by Ahmad Murid Partaw | Jan 15, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics
The only way to end the Afghan war is through a political settlement that can incorporate the Taliban into the Afghan political system.
Should the US Make Peace with the Taliban?
by Wahab Raofi | Jan 3, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
President Trump seems to have realized that the most logical path to peace in Afghanistan lies in negotiating an agreement with the Taliban.
Afghanistan’s Economic Gain and Loss from “National Air Corridor Program”
by Waleed Majidyar | Nov 16, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Economy, News & Analysis
Afghanistan’s National Air Corridor Program may not be sustainable, and gaining access to the Karachi port should be a priority for the Afghan government.
Afghanistan’s Economic Problems and Insidious Development Constraints
by Obaidullah Burhani | Oct 25, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Essays, Politics
Worsening inequalities, criminality, and political corruption is keeping ordinary Afghans impoverished while lining the pockets of the state’s cronies.
17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong
by David Swanson | Sep 29, 2018 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
The list of failed lessons from the US war on Afghanistan after seventeen years of incessant violence is a long one. Here are a few.
Should Al Qaeda Be Made the 51st State?
by David Swanson | Aug 9, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Bringing back the Russian menace is not working. Al Qaeda is the answer. If there were no Al Qaeda, the US government would have to invent one.
Which Is More Occupied, Crimea or Afghanistan?
by David Swanson | Jul 26, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Let’s compare Russia’s “occupation” of Crimea with an occupation that the US is not demanding a swift end to: the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s Mineral Resources Fueling War and Insurgency
by Ahmad Shah Katawazai | May 29, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Economy, Essays
Afghanistan’s rich mineral resources could prove to be the best substitutes for foreign aid and could decrease the country’s dependence on donor countries and foreign support. These resources, if properly managed, provide an opportunity for Afghanistan to write its own story of economic success.