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Anatomy of an Afghan war tragedy

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LA Times, 10 April 2011 ‘Combat by camera’ and the determination of drone pilots to see a threat where there was none. Released reports and transcripts of the 21 February 2010 US bombing of a civilian convoy in Daikondi show how “Technology can occasionally [sic] give you a false sense of security that you can […]

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The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders

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Rolling Stone, 31 March 2011 Large amount of mind-boggling detail on how two boys in their twenties became the main ammunition supplier for the US government support to the ANA in Afghanistan, breaking and circumventing laws, while providing Bush’s DoD and the State Department with what it needed.

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Permanent Bases for Afghanistan?

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National Review, 10 March 2011 Ahmad K. Majidyar, a senior research associate at the American Enterprise Institute, reviews (some) Afghan opinion on this issue.

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The Dangers of U.S. Militarism

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Le Monde diplomatique (German), Febr. 2011 Herald Tribune author William Pfaff asks ‘the fundamental question’ whether it ‘has it been a terrible error for the United States to have built an all but irreversible worldwide system of a thousand or more military bases, stations and outposts’ and whether it has not, as planned, enhanced American […]

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The Unforgivable Horror of Village Razing

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Registan blog, 12 January 2011 Joshua Foust comments on the US military’s ‘vllage razing’ tactics – but the most striking in it are the photos of one Afghan village ‘efore’ and ‘after’.

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What comes after remembering? Some thoughts after National Victims Day in Afghanistan

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There are days when Afghanistan’s sadness becomes overwhelming. For us, the Afghan National Victims’ Day was such a day. AAN Senior Analyst Sari Kouvo and Political Researcher Obaid Ali participated in the Afghan National Victims’ Day demonstration and commemoration. Around forty women and men have already gathered when we early Friday morning arrived at Kabul’s […]

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Afghanistan jet fuel deals generate thick fog of mystery

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1 November 2010 This article originally from th Washington Post (but with a better headline here) describes how a 58-year-old Californian bar-and-burger owner turned his business, along with a young Kyrgyz partner, into a multinational jet fuel business that has received Pentagon contracts worth nearly $3 billion. Their companies, Mina Corp. and Red […]

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War is Business, who benefits?

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War is Business (blog), 27 October 2010 This blog presents the information from SIGAR’s latest report on contracting in Afghanistan is presented in “web-friendly tables”, listing which businesses got the US reconstruction contracts over the last few years.

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Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan

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CBS News, 22 October 2010 Nick Turse discusses the extensive plans for new American military bases and existing base expansions, that will take the US far beyond the July 2011 drawn-down date. Which poses the obvious question: How Permanent Are America’s Afghan Bases?

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Tracking a Meme. Reality vs. spin in the war in Afghanistan

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Columbia Journalism Review, 21 October 2010 Joshua Foust on military operations and media spin: “the military is, literally, the only group inside or outside of Afghanistan that sees hope and progress in the war”, and “This disconnect between military spin and ground reality is not only dangerous, it is insulting: Americans can handle the truth […]

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Afghanistan War: The talk about ‘The Talks’ is just talk

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Global Post, 21 October 2010 There is more smoke than fire surrounding reports of talks with the Taliban, writes Jean MacKenzie, quoting AAN’s Martine van Bijlert. And parliamentary candidate Janan Mosazai adds the following analysis: Karzai has come to the conclusion that unless there is a settlement to this war, things will get substantially worse […]

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