Tag: Afghanistan
Afghan Peace is Now About the Art of the Possible, Not the Perfect
The current political crisis in Afghanistan is actually an important step towards a realistic peaceful solution: a political “unsettlement”.
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Who Will Tell the Truth About the So-Called ‘Free Press’?
The US corporate media dangerously accuse alternative sources of propagating “fake news” to maintain their own dominance as purveyors of misinformation.
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Why War Deaths Increase After Wars
It would be more difficult for the US government to continually wage senseless wars if the estimated millions of dead received more attention.
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CIA: The History of Deception
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.
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Peace in Afghanistan
The peace activists in Afghanistan need the American people to do more to protest the US government’s war in their country.
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The Obama Wars
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
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When the Journalists Ganged Up on Assange They Ganged Up on Themselves
Without free speech there is tyranny, and the road to tyranny is the road the United States and its Western vassals are on.
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Afghanistan’s Keys to Peace Lie Within Its Own Government and in Pakistan
Peace will not come to Afghanistan until it develops an effective government that is able to come to terms with its neighbor Pakistan.
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Closing Military Bases, Opening a New World
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.
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Savagery and Its Promoters and Profiteers
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.
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When Truth-Tellers Must Hide, Societies Collapse
Nashenas, an Afghan who had to hide his identity to exercise his freedom of speech, exemplifies the dangerous trend toward squelching free speech.
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Diagnosing the Impasse in the Afghan Peace Process
The only way to end the Afghan war is through a political settlement that can incorporate the Taliban into the Afghan political system.
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Should the US Make Peace with the Taliban?
President Trump seems to have realized that the most logical path to peace in Afghanistan lies in negotiating an agreement with the Taliban.
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Afghanistan’s Economic Gain and Loss from “National Air Corridor Program”
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.
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Afghanistan’s Economic Problems and Insidious Development Constraints
Worsening inequalities, criminality, and political corruption is keeping ordinary Afghans impoverished while lining the pockets of the state’s cronies.
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17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong
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.
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Should Al Qaeda Be Made the 51st State?
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.
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Which Is More Occupied, Crimea or Afghanistan?
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.
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Afghanistan’s Mineral Resources Fueling War and Insurgency
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.
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A Return to Monarchy Could Solve the Afghan Conflict
A monarchical system of government may sound regressive to Westerners, but Afghanistan once thrived under monarchy, and the existing Western-imposed government is destined to fail.
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