American history has been dominated by war; so, too, may the American future be.
The war in Afghanistan feels foreign to Americans: a far distant land, a confusing and alien culture, and combat against a shadowy enemy. That feeling is mistaken. America has spent much of its history fighting wars like the one in Afghanistan. So much so, in fact, that Afghanistan would be familiar to an American in 1900, and conventional wars such as World War II would seem strange.
In fact, in many ways (…)
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The Philippine War is Not So Different from Afghanistan
10 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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Taiwan’s $6.4 billion arms package; Houston, we’ve got a problem…..
3 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Ah Houston, Space Rider here; we’ve got a problem. Space Rider, this is Houston, go ahead. Uh, Houston, Space Rider, we’re in the holding pattern just north of Jupiter and our Foreign Policy Extender Probe is jammed and won’t retract, over. Space Rider, we see the problem and the FPEP engineers are looking at a fix. Houston, Space Rider, we have run the emergency check list and there is no procedure for reentry with the FPEP jammed and generating all that parasite drag. Space Rider, (…)
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Af-Pak : View point of Pak army and ISI
1 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
$500m for ‘Safe Exit’ from Afghanistan’s Unforgiving History
“Those who do not learn from history, are condemned to repeat it” -George Santana
Dan Qayyum | Editor, PKKH
After 9 years of maintaining an expensive presence on Afghan soil, thousands of lives and billions wasted in aid and reconstruction efforts, not to forget bribes to warlords and drug barons, the US and its allies have come up with a real gem of an idea – trying to buy themselves a safe exit from the Afghan mess for a (…) -
If I Met Poppy in a Pizza Parlor
22 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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When I heard about the guy that ran into "Poppy" (George H.W.) Bush in a pizza place in Houston, cussed him out and posted a video about it on YouTube, of course I had to watch it. (Click here fast; it seems to be disappearing.) The names turned out to be "murderous, Zionist piece of s*," without the asterisk.
Mulling this over carefully, especially having just finished Russ Baker’s exhaustive (and exhausting) Family of Secrets, I wouldn’t call the man a Zionist. I (…) -
“Scheherazade” Painting, Arundhati Roy, Taslima Nasrin, Heroines, US Alliance War Crimes & Women’s Rights
22 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
The most fundamental of women’s rights is the right to life and for a mother the right to life of her children. Yet the US Alliance is engaged in a bloody assault on the women and children who represent three quarters of the population of the Muslim world.
Post-invasion violent deaths and non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan territories total 0.3 million, 3.5 million and 4.5 million, respectively, and post-invasion under-5 infant (…) -
Cold Start: Indian Threat to Pakistan & China
22 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
2010 January 20
Source : Pak Alerte
By Farzana Shah
In 2005 India announced a new military doctrine called Start Cold mainly targeting Pakistan as its potential enemy. In November 2009, Indian army chief made a statement that there is a possibility of a limited war between Pakistan and India in a nuclear overhang.
In December 2009, Indian chief announced that India is ready to take on both Pakistan and China in a ‘two front war’ simultaneously. These statements spurred a quick (…) -
The Anatomy Of America’s Defeat In Afghanistan
15 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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By Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
With the long awaited decision by the Obama Administration in regards to the new strategy for Afghanistan, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated to the point that the US commanders started using the word ‘defeat’ in their report to Washington. The word defeat has rarely been uttered by military; however, Afghanistan is the exception, where defeat is a realistic outcome. There, defeat is a reality that all invaders have faced (…) -
Israel to build another WALL
11 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Israel will build a barrier along the entire length of its southern border with Egypt, the Prime Minister’s Office said today in a statement posted on its Web site.
The barrier is meant to keep out “intruders and terrorists,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the statement, including “illegal workers who try to enter Israel by way of its southern border.”
The barrier will cost at least a billion shekels and take several years to construct, the statement said. (…) -
Yemen seizes ’Israel-linked’ cell
11 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Yemen seizes ’Israel-linked’ cell
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence.
Mr Saleh did not say what evidence had been found to show the group’s links with Israel, a regional enemy of Yemen.
The arrests were connected with an attack on the US embassy in Sanaa last month which killed at least 18 people, official sources were quoted saying.
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Blowback Effect: The World in 2020
8 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Blowback Effect: The World in 2020
by Michael T. Klare, January 6, 2010
As the second decade of the twenty-first century begins, we find ourselves at one of those relatively rare moments in history when major power shifts become visible to all. If the first decade of the century witnessed profound changes, the world of 2009 nonetheless looked at least somewhat like the world of 1999 in certain fundamental respects: the United States remained the world’s paramount military power, the (…)