Category: Afghanistan
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Afghanistan’s Natural Wealth Evaluated at $1 Trillion / Commodities / Afghanistan
By: Pravda
In Afghanistan, American geologists have discovered deposits of iron, copper, lithium, cobalt, and gold worth $1 trillion. Experts believe that these reserves may not only stop the poverty in one of the poorest countries in the world, but turn Afghanistan in a flourishing country and one of the largest centers of natural resources excavation.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Afghanistan Resources War For Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
The 2001 bombing and invasion of Afghanistan has been presented to World public opinion as a "Just War", a war directed against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a war to eliminate "Islamic terrorism" and instate Western style democracy. The economic dimensions of the "Global War on Terrorism" are rarely mentioned.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Will Afghanistan’s Commodities Mineral Wealth Bring the Nation’s Rebirth? / Commodities / Afghanistan
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes: Overnight, Afghanistan has gone from being a political pariah to one of the most significant, and potentially richest, countries on the globe. But can the rocky, war-torn desert - known mostly for harboring terrorists and exporting opium - be reborn as a major commodities exporter?
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Is The War In Afghanistan About Terror, Or Heroin? / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Andrew_Butter
No one knows how much the “War on Terror” cost so far, but if you add up the actual direct expenditure plus the economic damage, plus the cost of all the extra security, it wouldn’t surprise me if it came to more than the credit crunch cost. Of course it didn’t happen all in one go, but I just wonder whether the current malaise in USA might have something to do with that cost.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Afghanistan, World's Longest War Has Only Just Begun / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Rick_Rozoff
The higher number of Defense Department contractors, 160,000, added to over 100,000 troops - with the likely prospect of both numbers climbing yet more - will result in over a quarter of a million U.S. personnel serving under the Pentagon and NATO. The latter has 42,000 non-U.S. troops fighting under its command currently and pledges of 8,000 more to date, with thousands in addition to be conscripted after the London conference on Afghanistan next month.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Malalai Joya's Afghanistan Solution Withdraw All Foreign Troops / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Mike_Whitney
Malalai Joya: "Afghans Are Fed Up With the U.S. Occupation and the Corrupt, Mafia-state of Hamid Karzai "
Book Review
It's too bad Barack Obama didn't consult with Malalai Joya before giving his Nobel acceptance speech on Thursday. The ex-Afghan Parliamentarian could have helped the president to see that the ongoing US occupation is damaging to both American and Afghan interests.
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Obama's Afghanistan Plan and the Key Battleground / Politics / Afghanistan
By: STRATFOR
U.S. President Barack Obama announced the broad structure of his Afghanistan strategy in a speech at West Point on Tuesday evening. The strategy had three core elements. First, he intends to maintain pressure on al Qaeda on the Afghan-Pakistani border and in other regions of the world. Second, he intends to blunt the Taliban offensive by sending an additional 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan, along with an unspecified number of NATO troops he hopes will join them.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Why Obama’s Troop Surge in Afghanistan? / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Shamus_Cooke
Tuesday’s announcement that President Obama will send an additional 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan — while begging his foreign allies to send an extra 10,000 — will have dramatic effects throughout the American and world society.
The hope that Obama’s election would drastically change U.S. foreign policy has been destroyed. The effects of his troop surge will change the minds of millions of Americans, who, until this point, were giving Obama the benefit of the doubt.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Deepening Economic Crisis, Financing War at the Expense of Job Creation / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Washingtons_Blog
America is in the most severe unemployment crisis since - and perhaps including - the Great Depression.
And yet Obama, like Bush, has done virtually nothing to create more jobs. Instead, they both gave trillions to the biggest banks (who are not loaning it out to the little guy) and for waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
What the Taliban Actually Think About Receiving Democracy / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Butler_Shaffer
For might makes right,
And till they’ve seen the light,
They’ve got to be protected,Send the Marines
All their rights respected,
Till somebody we like can be elected.
~ Tom Lehrer - (Lyrics from his "")
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Afghanistan, What is Going on? / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Pravda
PRAVDA.Ru sources in Pakistan state that the US military forces are pulling back from the border posts between Afghanistan and Pakistan, while at the same time the Pakistani army is engaged in a major offensive against the Taliban. Is this to allow the Taliban to move freely, while the hidden objective is the Pakistani State?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Lost History Of Helmand Afghanistan / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Submissions
Adam Curtis writes: When you look at footage of the fighting in Helmand today everyone assumes it is being played out against an ancient background of villages and fields built over the centuries.
This is not true. If you look beyond the soldiers, and into the distance, what you are really seeing are the ruins of one of the biggest technological projects the United States has ever undertaken. Its aim was to use science to try and change the course of history and produce a modern utopia in Afghanistan. The city of Lashkar Gah was built by the Americans as a model planned city, and the hundreds of miles of canals that the Taliban now hide in were constructed by the same company that built the San Francisco Bay Bridge and Cape Canaveral.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Geopolitics Behind the Phoney U.S. War in Afghanistan / Politics / Afghanistan
By: F_William_Engdahl
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Why They Really Want More Troops in Afghanistan / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Michael_Gaddy
We can all look back at the wonderful decision that was made to send more troops to Korea. If we had not, we could have been bogged down in a quagmire there that would have required 50 plus years of American lives, involvement and money. What a wonderful decision it was to send more troops to Vietnam.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Saving Face in Afghanistan / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
This past week there has been a lot of discussion and debate on the continuing war in Afghanistan. Lasting twice as long as World War II and with no end in sight, the war in Afghanistan has been one of the longest conflicts in which our country has ever been involved. The situation has only gotten worse with recent escalations.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
U.S. Military Prepares for Afghanistan Defeat / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Pravda
American troops are at risk of being defeated in Afghanistan if additional troops are not sent, says the special report that has become available to the Washington Post.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The Afghan Disaster, More Force, More Money, More Death / Politics / Afghanistan
By: LewRockwell
In the private sector, there is always a test of success. The business must make a profit. It can sustain some losses but the clock is always running on those. At some point, after all cuts have been made and costs are trimmed to a minimum, the business has to close shop. The summer of losses must become the autumn of profits, or else it's all over.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Afghanistan, Where Empires Go to Die / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Dahr_Jamail
Genghis Khan could not hold onto Afghanistan. Neither will the United States
On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men's and women's wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters.
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Obghanistan, More for the Meat Grinder / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Ron_Shirtz
Throughout July and August of this year, US forces suffered almost 90 soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Heeding recommendations from military leaders and his advisors, President Obama has approved sending 17,000 troops, which includes a 5,000-member Marine Regimental Combat Team, to support the overextended combat troops in southern Afghanistan. While these numbers may seem impressive, in military terms this is the equivalent of scrounging couch change trying to pay off a balloon mortgage payment.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Britain Losing the Plot in Afghanistan as Losses Mount / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Global_Research
Lesley Docksey writes: So far, the cost to the British taxpayer of our current ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan is £12 billion(1). If only our eight years there had cost nothing but money. Leaving aside the horrendous cost to the Afghan people and their land, Britain’s forces have suffered loss, not least, because of the muddle, ignorance and incompetence of those who sent them to war, a loss of face.