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NATO to Afghans: We’re Invading Your Town. Don’t Leave!
Please, please, pretty please don’t leave the warzone. That seems to be today’s message from NATO headquarters ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Open plan
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Marines wait in the cold for Afghan offensive
Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift ...via NewsRack -
In southern Afghanistan, even the small gains get noticed
For the Fifth Stryker Brigade Combat Team, deployed around the southern city of Kandahar, the mission is to ...via Google News -
Helmand Refugees Fleeing Ahead Of Anti-Taliban Offensive
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Afghans Don’t Let a White-Knuckle Highway Slow Them Down
Even in a nation beset by war and suicide bombings, you would be hard-pressed to find anything as reliably ...via Jamal Dajani
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In the Land of the Stoner Cops
See a photo essay about the teams of Afghans who risk their lives to disable explosives here. MAJOR JIM CONTRERAS ...via Mother Jones -
Mediators' Plan a Road Map to Afghanistan Peace?
If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
America's Secret Afghan Prisons
In the past few years Pashtun villagers in Afghanistan's rugged heartland have begun to lose faith in the American ...via The Nation -
Public Still Supports Obama’s Foreign Policy
On the eve of his first State of the Union address — a speech likely to be viewed as a response to a new ...
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The working of the reset policy
A year after the new United States administration promised to “press the reset button” on ties with Russia, the ...Posted by NewsTrust Staff -
Afghan endgame
The London conference on Afghanistan was being billed as a dud - hastily conceived, under prepared and potentially ...Posted by James Canning -
U.S. to Move 9/11 Trial From New York City, Official Says
The Obama administration is said to have abandoned plans to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other alleged Sept. ...Posted by Lawrence Shore -
Threats
In office, Obama has begun to reframe counterterrorism strategy. He has crafted a posture of strategic patience, ...Posted by Terry Gamble -
Why does al-Qaida kill? | Eric Randolph
The fact that most of its victims are Muslim prompts fundamental questions about the violence committed in ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Afghanistan: What Could Work
A legion of arguments almost drove Obama away from this new moderate position over the last ten weeks of ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism, Part 2
In the second part of his interview with Truthout, Dr. Mestrovic examines the fallacious nature of the rules of ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
A Pitiless, Punitive Giant and the Death of Empire
In the aftermath of the December 30 suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees, US drone ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Obama's Illogical Afghanistan-Terrorism Policy
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"Obama Has Kept the Machine Set on Kill"
(Multimedia) In an extended interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back over the Obama ...Posted by Subramanya Sastry
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Helmand Refugees Fleeing Ahead Of Anti-Taliban Offensive
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The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism, Part 2
In the second part of his interview with Truthout, Dr. Mestrovic examines the fallacious nature of the rules of ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
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