Politicians constantly utter what they know to be falsehoods in order to garner votes and high esteem from an ignorant electorate. The latest and greatest of such sideshows is - and will be - Obama's war in Afghanistan. Military and administration officials have...
The Associated Press headline pushes the occupation line that the "coalition" is trying to "build" a cadre of leaders, but a perusal of the text makes clear that Kabul and its Western masters are actively demolishing age-old local governance traditions in a probably...
Richard Falk has an insightful and somewhat dispiriting piece at al Jazeera called "Why the Afghanistan War Won't End Soon." He writes about the prescience of the so-called 'Vietnam Syndrome' (once referred to as "sickly inhibitions against the use of military...
Here's the deal now: in the case of who shot down that Chinook in Afghanistan and if he was indeed killed by US forces yesterday, we have the word of the often-lying Pentagon against that of the often-lying Taliban. What to make of it, I don't know, but given the...
CNN-watching pays off every day. Every day there is something so utterly insane and unbelievable about the war or the economy that I can't help but stare in disbelief at the screen, or just laugh my ass off. This morning, it was that second thing. Anchor Don Lemon cut...
Imperial cheerleaders have a habit of blaming Iran for everything bad that happens to a US occupation, so I have come to accept they will pull that boogeyman out any chance they get. And yet I was still surprised when CNN contributor and Bush regime mouthpiece Frances...
Those kooky Afghans, with their crazy Eastern views. Look at them say silly things like: "The Americans will never leave Afghanistan," said Mohammad Ali, a 36-year-old shopkeeper in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, one of seven areas due to move to Afghan security...
I won't go into too much detail as to exactly where I read The Economist, but a few minutes after my first coffee this morning, I was staring incredulously at a quote in a column about Afghanistan. I re-read it four times to make sure I hadn't missed something. No,...
From film-maker Oliver Stone's interview with former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, we discover: Oliver Stone: "Were there any eye-to-eye moments with President Bush that day, that night?" Nestor Kirchner: "...I said that a solution to the...
Can YOUR card do this? AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you how war fits into this. I mean, you co-wrote the book with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. How does war fit into our problems with the economy? JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Well, war fits in because you're creating a...
