by Jeff Bliss September 19, 2009 The growing strength of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan prompted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to establish more bases there, the agency’s director said. The extra CIA operatives are supporting the 17,000 additional troops President Barack Obama authorized soon after taking office this year, as well as the civilian government employees helping [...]

by Tom Engelhardt September 17, 2009 “War is peace” was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in “Newspeak,” the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystopian novel 1984. Some 60 years later, a quarter-century after Orwell’s imagined future bit the dust, the phrase is, in a [...]

por Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, 16 sep (IPS) – El creciente escepticismo entre los legisladores del gobernante Partido Demócrata de Estados Unidos sobre la guerra en Afganistán sin duda es uno de los más difíciles desafíos políticos del presidente Barack Obama en su primer año en el cargo. Mientras los militares presionan por un significativo aumento en el [...]

Artículo final de la serie Resistencia del alimento Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un [...]

by Douglas Birch September 4, 2009 KABUL – A NATO jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, setting off a huge fireball Friday that killed up to 90 people, Afghan officials said. The NATO command said a “large number of insurgents” were killed or injured in the pre-dawn attack near the village of [...]

Bill Moyers Sits Down With Jeremy Scahill And Discuss Obama Foreign Policy June.05, 2009.

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So by Chalmers Johnson July 30, 2009 However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with [...]

by Sonali Kolhatkar July 17, 2009 Editor’s Note (from New America Media): Just two weeks into July, the month is already the deadliest for NATO troops in Afghanistan. The high casualty count is at least partially the result of Operation Khanjar, the largest U.S. Marine Corps ground offensive in years. But NAM contributor Sonali Kolhatkar writes that [...]

by Nancy A. Youssef July 17, 2009 Kandahar, Afghanistan – An airstrike that Afghan officials allege killed at least four civilians Wednesday is the first test of a new U.S. directive that American troops let Taliban fighters flee if civilian lives are at risk.

General Tapped by Obama to Lead Afghanistan War Testifies Tuesday By Spencer Ackerman June 1, 2009 A former military interrogator who contributed to the manhunt for a senior Iraqi terrorist has urged the Senate Armed Services Committee staff to press Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Obama administration’s nominee to lead U.S. troops in the Afghanistan war, on what [...]