US has discovered $1 trillion in mineral deposits in Afghanistan
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9730/
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What Could $1 Trillion in Mineral Wealth Mean for Afghanistan?
Tom A. Peter, The Christian Science Monitor: "US and Afghan officials claim to have discovered more than $1 trillion in untapped copper, iron, and lithium deposits in Afghanistan, enough to significantly bolster the future development of the war ravaged country. But there remains skepticism about Afghanistan's mineral wealth, as some critics argue that the extent of un-mined deposits is being inflated to garner support for the war."
http://www.truth-out.org/what-could-1-trillion-mineral-wealth-mean-afghanistan60445
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Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda
"Liberal" New York Times sells globalist occupation once more with fake news
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Tuesday, Jun 15th, 2010
News that the U.S. has suddenly discovered $1 trillion-worth of mineral deposits in Afghanistan, and descriptions of the bounty as a “game changer” by the corporate media, represent nothing more than crude war propaganda designed to reinvigorate public support for a failing and ever more pointless occupation.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/afghanistan-mineral-riches-story-is-war-propaganda.html
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'Discovery' of Afghan Riches a Pro-war PR Scam?
By Daniel Tencer
The story's timing suggests a Pentagon public relations campaign designed to extend public support for the war with the hope that, in time, Afghanistan may be able to raise itself out of abject poverty.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25718.htm
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Bring on the Coalition of the Digging
Slate
by Christopher Hitchens
06/21/10
The story of countries that are poor because they are rich is an old one: The Congo has been a scandalous example since the time of its private ownership by the Belgian royal family in the 19th century, and to the list of nations subject to depredation by resource exploitation one could also add Haiti, Angola, India, and (to be fair) China. Afghanistan has no infrastructure or professional civil service, no tradition of extractive industry, and no mechanism for sharing resources among its wildly discrepant provinces and regions. A Klondike beyond the Khyber could be the last thing it needs. Still. This is at least a trillion-dollar national-resource treasure in a country that so far has had a GDP with scarcely any pulse. The governments of NATO — which include countries with vast experience in mining, from Germany to Canada and from Britain to the United States — have had almost no real work to do on the economic front except to distribute aid, itself often a cause of resentment, and waste time trying to “interdict” Afghanistan’s only other existing resource, which is opium. Is it conceivable that such an alliance of earth-moving and digging powers could not at last find something genuinely constructive to do in a country where they already have a U.N. mandate for rebuilding and reconstruction?
http://www.slate.com/id/2257659/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pentagon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+propaganda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Tencer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Hitchens
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What Could $1 Trillion in Mineral Wealth Mean for Afghanistan?
Tom A. Peter, The Christian Science Monitor: "US and Afghan officials claim to have discovered more than $1 trillion in untapped copper, iron, and lithium deposits in Afghanistan, enough to significantly bolster the future development of the war ravaged country. But there remains skepticism about Afghanistan's mineral wealth, as some critics argue that the extent of un-mined deposits is being inflated to garner support for the war."
http://www.truth-out.org/what-could-1-trillion-mineral-wealth-mean-afghanistan60445
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Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda
"Liberal" New York Times sells globalist occupation once more with fake news
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Tuesday, Jun 15th, 2010
News that the U.S. has suddenly discovered $1 trillion-worth of mineral deposits in Afghanistan, and descriptions of the bounty as a “game changer” by the corporate media, represent nothing more than crude war propaganda designed to reinvigorate public support for a failing and ever more pointless occupation.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/afghanistan-mineral-riches-story-is-war-propaganda.html
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'Discovery' of Afghan Riches a Pro-war PR Scam?
By Daniel Tencer
The story's timing suggests a Pentagon public relations campaign designed to extend public support for the war with the hope that, in time, Afghanistan may be able to raise itself out of abject poverty.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25718.htm
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Bring on the Coalition of the Digging
Slate
by Christopher Hitchens
06/21/10
The story of countries that are poor because they are rich is an old one: The Congo has been a scandalous example since the time of its private ownership by the Belgian royal family in the 19th century, and to the list of nations subject to depredation by resource exploitation one could also add Haiti, Angola, India, and (to be fair) China. Afghanistan has no infrastructure or professional civil service, no tradition of extractive industry, and no mechanism for sharing resources among its wildly discrepant provinces and regions. A Klondike beyond the Khyber could be the last thing it needs. Still. This is at least a trillion-dollar national-resource treasure in a country that so far has had a GDP with scarcely any pulse. The governments of NATO — which include countries with vast experience in mining, from Germany to Canada and from Britain to the United States — have had almost no real work to do on the economic front except to distribute aid, itself often a cause of resentment, and waste time trying to “interdict” Afghanistan’s only other existing resource, which is opium. Is it conceivable that such an alliance of earth-moving and digging powers could not at last find something genuinely constructive to do in a country where they already have a U.N. mandate for rebuilding and reconstruction?
http://www.slate.com/id/2257659/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pentagon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+propaganda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Tencer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Hitchens
rudkla - 14. Jun, 08:09
