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The Taliban made an audacious attack early Monday on Afghanistan’s capital city, upending recent assurances of military progress.

Tags: Carl Levin, Kabul, Stanley Petraeus, Taliban

Concerns are arising about the role of the US military in Haitian relief and a potential growth of the devastated country’s international debt.

This past week 1,400 activists from around the world gathered in Cairo on their way to Gaza. They planned to show their concern and support for the people of Gaza on this anniversary of the devastating Israeli Operation Cast Lead and demand an end of the blockade. Several participants have posted particularly good reports on their experiences which are shared here.

While everyone’s focus has been on Yemen – with reports that targets are being examined for possible retaliation attacks by the US – the US war in Afghanistan continues to go bad.

Tags: CIA

It’s been a year since the Israelis launched their Operation Cast Lead attack on Gaza. A year in which world leaders pledged aid and change and hope but delivered nothing.  And once again Israel is poking Gaza, perhaps in an effort to once again provoke the rockets which then become the excuse for more. After [...]

With US troops still in Iraq, a surge on the way for Afghanistan (where there are already 189000 US troops and US funded contractors ) and the growing drone war in Pakistan, you’d think we were fighting enough wars, but it seems we’ve just joined one more.
On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. [...]

As we approach the one year anniversary of the Israeli Cast Lead attack, the news continues to be desperate for the people of Gaza.  We heard the promises and pledges last February of international aid and US contributions but, as with so much else we’ve heard, the reality does not match the rhetoric. And reality [...]

In some of the most surreal reasoning yet, that dynamic duo Clinton and Gates argued for the Obama Afghanistan Timeline as a way  to make the Afghans step up but at the same time they are also telling the Afghans and everyone else that the July 2011 date is essentially meaningless.
Or as Quqnoos, an Afghan [...]

From tonight’s speech, along with surreal argument that somehow increasing US forces in Afghanistan to 100,000 is necessary to defeat the 100 Al Qaeda members the Pentagon says are left there, one section jumped out at me. Obama said:
And we have forged a new beginning between America and the Muslim World – one that recognizes [...]

Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, escalation

How very convenient that the Senate Tora Bora report arrived in the news today – just in time to help build the case for bowing to Gen McChrystal’s demand for a bigger war in Afghanistan.
All reports forecast an Obama decision to send 30-35,000 additional troops coupled with a lot of talk telling Karzai he must [...]

Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, Torture