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Biden and the False Iraq War Narrative
Gareth Porter, Truthout: "In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday, Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq war that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had... ...
rudkla - 11. Sep, 09:27
Study ties civilian deaths to attacks on US forces
MSNBC 08/02/10 Each time U.S. or NATO forces accidentally kill Afghan civilians, insurgents and their sympathizers typically retaliate with six additional assaults on foreign forces over the next six... ...
rudkla - 3. Aug, 09:58
Do disclosures of atrocities change anything?
CounterPunch by Alexander Cockburn 08/01/10 The hope of the brave soldier who sent 92,000 secret U.S. documents to Wikileaks was that their disclosure would prompt public revulsion and increasing political... ...
rudkla - 4. Aug, 10:14
The Ugly Truth About US Wars
http://www.lewrockwell.com /margolis/margolis197.html The WikiLeaks Afghanistan Leak http://www.lewrockwel l.com/greenwald/greenwald6 9.html -------- WikiLeak s Founder: Docs Show Everyday Brutality of... ...
rudkla - 1. Sep, 08:53
The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency
By Conn Hallinan The Afghan Taliban have never been a threat to the West, and the idea that fighting the Taliban would reduce the threat of terrorism is "complete rubbish." In any case, the al-Qaeda operatives... ...
rudkla - 3. Aug, 06:26
The Unknown Afghan Body Count
By James Denselow The precise compilation of western casualties contrasts with almost criminal neglect in tracking the numbers of Afghan civilians killed since 2001. If Afghanistan is the "good war"... ...
rudkla - 20. Jul, 22:59
Why West Lost Afghan War
By Michael Scheuer The bottom line is that the United States and NATO stand defeated in Afghanistan. Under McChrystal, Petraeus, or Obama himself the counterinsurgency strategy now being flogged has... ...
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:25
Afghanistan: counterinsurgency or colonialism?
In practice, I found, it looks and sounds a lot more like old-fashioned colonialism. In the tents of Naray, I had the distinct feeling that I had strolled into Uttar Pradesh at some point after 1858, in... ...
rudkla - 2. Jul, 05:59
Report From a US Military Outpost in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Rubin reports for The New York Times: "I went to Afghanistan last fall with a question: Why, with all our technology, were we killing so many civilians in air strikes? ... After a few days, the... ...
rudkla - 2. Jul, 05:52
The cult of the offensive
Independent Institute by Ivan Eland 08/21/06 Israel suffers from the cult of the offensive, which also afflicts the U.S. military. Believing that grabbing the initiative and taking the fight to the enemy... ...
rudkla - 2. Jul, 05:50
