Afghanistan Links

Afghanistan Links

Afghanistan's History

• Afghanistan: At the Crossroads of Ancient Civilizations


• Afghanistan's Agony


• Assessing Afghanistan


• Unearthing Anguish in a Troubled Land

Drugs

• Afghan farmers find alternative to opium: marijuana


• Afghan opium fight hurts poorest


• Afghanistan: Addicted to Heroin


• Canada may be drawn into drug-eradication in Afghanistan


• Canada stays out of Afghan poppy eradication


• Cannabis Thrives in an Afghan Province


• Drug war, Taliban, poppies are all in full flower


• Grow opium or die: Afghan farmers say choice is stark (scroll down for article)


• Hooked on a Failing


• In Afghan Poppy Heartland, New Crops, Growing Danger


• Let Afghanistan Grow the World's Opium Supply


• Nations vow to tackle opium problem in Afghanistan


• No alternative to opium, say farmers


• Poppy paradox in Afghanistan


• Poverty feeds Afghan drugs trade


• Ruined poppy farmers join ranks with the Taliban


• Schweich, ICG, etc.--Assume the Existence of a State in Afghanistan


• The extraordinary folly of Britain's new opium war


• The perils of trying to uproot an opium economy


• The Taliban's Opium War


• U.S. fails to reduce Afghan opium crop


• Victorious warlords set to open the opium floodgates


• War on drugs strengthens Afghan mafia


• What Are They Smoking?

Fighting the Insurgentcy

• 'How We Lost the War We Won: A Journey into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan'


• 'If it was jihad then, it's jihad now'


• 'The Taliban Are Terrorists'


• A Modernized Taliban Thrives in Afghanistan


• A Ragtag Pursuit of the Taliban


• Aaugh!


• A catalogue of errors in Afghanistan


• A heavy hand in Afghanistan


• Afghan loss equals terrorist win: ex-CIA analyst


• Afghan War Only Just Beginning, Security Group Warns


• Afghanistan: Time for Truth


• Afghanistan's insurgency spreading north


• An insurgency beyond the Taliban


• Are Theological Tensions Distancing Taliban from al-Qaida?


• As Taliban Influence Grows, 'Shadow Government' Seems an Increasingly Viable Option to Afghans


• Backlash from Afghan Civilian Deaths


• Britain's key weapon in Afghanistan: the bribe


• Britain's theatrical war against the Taliban


• British 'success' under siege in Afghanistan


• British plan to build training camp for Taliban defectors in Afghanistan


• Brutal U.S. Attack on Unarmed Afghans Captured by Photos


• Can tribes take on the Taliban?


• Civilian deaths from Western fire in Afghanistan could fuel support for Taliban


• Civilian Deaths Undermine War on Taliban


• Concerns Mounts Over Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan


• Crunch time coming in Afghanistan?


• Ex-Taliban Commander Lectures Mullah Omar About Koran


• Fatal errors in Afghanistan


• Fight Less, Win More


• Fighting a Hard, Half-Forgotten War


• For us ze war is over by tea time, ja


• From Great Game to Grand Bargain


• Hobbled in Kabul


• How COIN Generalists Fail Afghanistan


• In Afghanistan, a Do-Over Battle


• In Afghanistan, It's About Air Power, Too


• In the Land of the Taliban


• It's time to recalibrate Canada's mission


• Karzai: 'I Wish I Had the Taliban as My Soldiers'


• Majority of Afghan insurgents not Taliban


• Mistakes by Afghan Translators Endanger Lives, Hamper Western Effort


• NATO Confronts Surprisingly Fierce Taliban


• Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire


• Pushtunwali: The Code that Governs the Lives of Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan


• Secrets of the Taliban's success


• Sending more troops to Afghanistan could backfire, experts warn


• Struggle to rein in Taliban in Afghanistan's south


• Taking the Fight to the Taliban


• Taliban control half of Afghanistan, says report


• Taliban Evolves into Network of Groups


• Taliban factions may be using British forces to assassinate rival commanders


• The Other War


• The Surge That Failed: Afghanistan Under the Bombs


• The Taliban Fedayeen: The World's Worst Suicide Bombers?


• Three warlords lead Afghan uprising


• Tribal militias enlisted to protect the south


• U.K. army's 'vacuum' bomb hits Taliban


• U.S. and Afghan government frustrated by Taliban's resilience


• U.S. losing the moral high ground


• U.S. Planes Bomb Afghanistan With $100 Bills and Photos of Bush


• U.S. Military Weighs Recruiting Afghan Tribes to Fight Taliban


• Why? Six years on from the invasion of Afghanistan


• Why Does the U.S. Think It Can Win in Afghanistan?


• Why the Neo-Taliban is Winning

Foreign Aid in Afghanistan

• Afghans Find Key Promises Unfulfilled


• Poorly-directed aid increases Afghanistan's woes


• U.N. to urge revamp of Afghan aid


• U.S. aid to Afghanistan falls short


• U.S. paid for media firm Afghans didn't want

Growing Support for the Taliban and Antipathy Toward the Foreigners

• Anti-Western feeling seen rising in Afghanistan (scroll down for article)


• As Crime Increases in Kabul, So Does Nostalgia for Taliban


• Hearts, Minds, and Body Bags: NATO Battles Rising Hostility in Afghanistan


• Poll: Afghans' Criticism of U.S. Efforts Rises; In the Southwest, Taliban Support Grows


• Taliban still a force in Afghanistan


• Taliban support rising in Afghanistan: study


• We want the Taliban back, say ordinary Afghans

Iran and Afghanistan

• Tensions mount between Iran, Afghanistan's Taliban in 1998


• The impact of U.S.-Iran enmity on Afghanistan

Pakistan-India-Afghanistan

• A Line Not to Be Crossed: The Afghan-Pakistan Border


• Ahmed Rashid on How the U.S. Aid to Ally Pakistan is Aiding the Taliban


• At Border, Signs of Pakistani Role in Taliban Surge


• Embassy Attack in Kabul Highlights Pakistan-India Rivalry


• From Pakistan, with jihad


• How the Taliban keep their coffers full


• In the Hiding Zone


• Inside the Pakistan-Taliban Relationship: Six Questions for Ahmed Rashid


• Insurgencies spreading in Pakistan and Afghanistan


• International strength of Taliban and al-Qaida threatens allied efforts


• ISI-Sponsored Attack on Indian Embassy in Kabul Boomerangs


• Killing ourselves in Afghanistan


• Losing Afghanistan


• Obama and the Taliban


• Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan


• Pakistan, the Taliban, and the U.S.


• Pakistan cuts supply lines to NATO troops in Afghanistan


• Pakistan provided military aid, troops to Taliban


• Pakistan reopens supply lines to Western forces


• Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say


• Pashtuns and Taliban in Two States


• Secret documents reveal U.S. concern about Pakistan's backing of Taliban before 9/11


• Side-Effects of the War in Afghanistan on the Pakistani State


• Taliban stage a coup of their own


• The 'War on Terrorism' Licenses a New Stupidity in Geopolitics


• The Getaway: Questions surround a secret Pakistani airlift


• U.S. Afghan supply lines depend on Islamist militant


• U.S. documents show Pakistan gave Taliban military aid


• What's Really Going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan


• Why Pakistan is unlikely to crack down on Islamic militants, despite U.S. pressure

Situation of Women and Children

• Afghan Girls, Back in the Shadows


• Afghan women seek death by fire


• Afghan Women Still in Chains Under Karzai


• Afghan women suffer daily violence


• Afghanistan: Behind the burqas


• Bush fails women in Afghanistan


• Don't look, don't tell, Canadian troops told


• Generation lost as Taliban target vulnerable schools in bandit region


• In Afghanistan, Rape Victims Begin To Break The Silence


• Interview with Female Afghan Parliamentarian Malalai Joya


• Marriage practice victimizes young girls, society


• Shh, It's an Open Secret: Warlords and Pedophilia


• The Afghan women jailed for being victims of rape


• The Schools the Taliban Won't Torch


• Women's lives worse than ever in Afghanistan


• Women Back Under Wraps with Taliban-Style Vice Squad

Talking to and Engaging with the Taliban?

• Afghan opposition courts Taliban


• Afghanistan pushes reconciliation effort


• European diplomats expelled 'at behest of the US'


• Karzai offers government role to Taliban


• Peace Talks Could be Win-Win for Afghan Government, Taliban


• Saudis Held Talks Between Taliban, Afghan Government


• Secret Taliban peace bid


• Taliban spokesman rejects Karzai's offer of talks


• Talk to Mullah Omar, if it saves British soldiers' lives


• The Afghanistan Advantage


• Time to talk peace with the Taliban?


• We can persuade Taliban to be peaceful, says expelled EU man


• Why it's so hard to negotiate with the Taliban


• Why the West thinks it is time to talk to the Taliban

The 'New Afghanistan'

• Afghan Absurdities


• Afghan Autopsy


• Afghan government failure reopens door to the Taliban


• Afghan lawmakers push cultural bans of Taliban era


• Afghanistan: Five Years Later


• Afghanistan: Just Another Bush Success Story


• Afghans' Uneasy Peace With Democracy


• Afghans Fed Up With Government and U.S.


• Afghans to Karzai: You failed us


• After U.S. $6 Billion, Where's an Afghan Cop When You Need One?


• Chaos in Afghanistan


• Consider Afghanistan Democratized


• Corruption, bribes and trafficking: a cancer that is engulfing Afghanistan


• Corruption eats away at Afghan government


• Disillusioned Afghans Seen Turning on Karzai


• Fear, Disillusion, and Despair


• Grim reality of life beyond Helmand


• Hopes and fears of Afghan Christians


• How Taliban sprang 450 insurgents from Kandahar's Sarposa prison in Afghanistan


• Hunkering Down in Afghanistan


• In Afghanistan, Anger in Parliament Grows as President Defies Majority's Wishes


• International Occupation Isn't Helping Afghanistan


• Kajaki dam: Contentious, costly, and a failure


• On the brink


• Post-Taliban Free Speech Blocked by Courts, Clerics


• Rahman in Retrospect


• Saving Afghanistan


• The day that changed Afghanistan


• The President Who Would Be King


• Where does Karzai go from here?


• Winning the Battle, Losing the Faith


• Women who took on the Taliban--and lost

The Dim Prospects for a NATO Victory

• Afghan war is unwinnable


• Afghanistan: A River Running Backward


• Afghanistan: Where Empires Go to Die


• Ashes of Empire


• British envoy says mission in Afghanistan is doomed, according to leaked memo


• Brits Say: West Can't Win in Afghanistan


• Could NATO lose in Afghanistan?


• Dear Jim


• Downhill in Afghanistan: The most remote place on Earth is now the most dangerous


• Europeans see what Americans cannot


• Fear battles hope on the road to Kandahar


• Fiddling While Afghanistan Slides Away


• How to Save Afghanistan


• Is NATO Losing the Real Battle in Afghanistan?


• Memo to Canada: Might won't win in Afghanistan


• NATO's Lost Cause


• NATO Needs an Exit Strategy in Afghanistan


• Rockets, guile, and the lessons of history: the Taliban besiege Kabul


• Russian veterans on Afghanistan war: 'impossible to win'


• Surging in Afghanistan: Too Much, Too Late?


• Taliban ambushes threaten Nato's vital logistics route into Afghanistan


• Taliban at Kabul's doorstep


• Taliban conflict 'cannot be won' in Afghanistan


• Taliban Gains in Afghanistan Due to U.S.-Led Policy, Study Says


• The Afghan fire looks set to spread, but there is a way out


• The Afghan mission: lessons from the past


• The Reality of War in Afghanistan


• The steady stream of maimed or killed soldiers is but one of many increasingly disturbing parallels between Afghanistan and the Vietnam War


• The Taliban's Baghdad Strategy


• The war that can bring neither peace nor freedom


• There is never going to be a NATO victory in Afghanistan


• Time to Face Facts in Afghanistan


• U.S. studies fear Afghanistan decline into terrorist haven


• We're losing in Afghanistan too


• Who are the Taliban? The question that is snaring NATO in tribal wars


• Why 'Victory' in First Phase of War on Terror Unravelled


• Why NATO cannot win the Afghan war


• Why NATO Troops Can't Deliver Peace in Afghanistan


• Will Military Rule Return to Pakistan--and Afghanistan--in a Year?

The Humanitarian-Economic Situation

• 'The new Afghanistan is a myth. It's time to go and get a job abroad'


• Afghan border province angry Kabul 'doesn't bother'


• Afghan Capital Mostly in the Dark


• Afghanistan Spiralling Back to Days of Taliban, Say Charities


• Campaign Against Taliban 'Causes Misery and Hunger'


• Gap between rich and poor widens in Afghanistan


• Harsh Winter Overwhelms Afghans


• In Kabul, Stark Gulf Between Wealthy Few and the Poor


• Severe drought and food price increases cause malnutrition and disease


• Unemployment slowly returns to Afghanistan

The Warlords

• Afghan amnesty shows warlord's clout


• Afghan Warlords, Formerly Backed By the CIA, Now Turn Their Guns On U.S. Troops


• Big fish among the Afghan warlords


• In Afghanistan, yesterday's warlords are today's bureaucrats


• In the shadow of the warlords


• Prosecutor Suggests 'Some People' Cannot Be Tried


• Rashid Dostum: The treacherous general

Treatment of Journalists and the Media

• A Young Life Hangs in the Balance in Afghanistan's Cultural War


• Afghan council wants soap operas off TV


• Afghan CTV journalist declared enemy combatant


• Afghan evils ignored at our peril


• Afghan journalism student sentenced to 20 years for insulting Islam


• Afghan journalist jailed for distributing Koran


• Afghan News Media Finds Foes on All Sides


• Afghan officials clamp down on the press


• Afghan reporter shocked by trial


• Afghan reporters: Between a rock and a hard place


• Freed Afghan journalist reunited with family


• Iranian Blogger Claims Article That Led to Death Sentence


• Journalist detained for reporting


• Lifeline for Pervez: Afghan Senate withdraws demand for death sentence


• Sentenced to Death: Afghan Who Dared to Read About Women's Rights

Treatment of Prisoners

• 'One huge U.S. jail'


• 'Worse' Than Guantanamo: U.S. Expands Secretive Prison Inside Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan


• Canada quietly halted transfer of Afghan detainees


• Secrets in the Mountains of Afghanistan


• See no evil?


• U.S.-run jail in Afghanistan 'worse than Guantanamo

(Broken links fixed 28-29 April 2010.)

Africa Links

Africa Links

Across the Continent

• 'For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!', African Economics Expert Tells West


• Calls for France to rethink its Africa role


• Don't Invade Zimbabwe


• How the West Fuels Africa's Bloodiest War


• If Economists Are So Smart, Why Is Africa So Poor?


• Inside France's secret war


• Kenya is not the new Rwanda


• Religion and Violence


• Sanctions are a coward's war. They only boost brutal rulers.


• The Niger Delta: The curse of the black gold


• The Parasite That Reveals Good News From Africa


• The rest of Africa needs a dose of South Africa's sanity


• Trade, Not Aid


• U.N. Sees Progress in Ending Female Genital Mutilation


• U.N. takes stock of role in Africa


• West condemns Mugabe, but ignores other African despots


• Zimbabwe's Ahab

Horn of Africa

• A Wealth of Kindness Among Somalia's Poorest


• As Somali Crisis Swells, Experts See a Void in Aid


• Bush's Rampage in Somalia


• Conditions may be ripe for Al-Qaida in Somalia


• Ethiopian Troop Pullout Leaves Government on Brink


• Impaled on the horn of Africa


• In Rebel Region, Ethiopia Turns to Civilian Patrols


• Inside a City of Fear


• Inside Mogadishu


• More blowback from the war on terrorism


• Rogue State America


• Somalia: A State Restored? Not So Fast


• Somalia's Pirates Flourish in a Lawless Nation


• Somalia's Transitional Government Teeters on Collapse


• Somalia's rough tactics seen backfiring


• Somali Killings of Aid Workers Imperil Relief


• Somali opposition says could fight UN peacekeepers


• Somalia: The world's forgotten catastrophe


• Ethiopia war gets little attention


• Springtime in Somalia


• U.S. airstrikes in Somalia could backfire


• With Spotlight on Pirates, Somalis on Land Waste Away in the Shadows

Sudan

• 'Out of Iraq, Into Darfur?'


• A Revival of Tribal Tradition to Help Repair Darfur


• An atrocity that needs no exaggeration


• Darfur needs peace, not peacekeepers


• Every Intervention Needs Exaggeration


• Facts and Darfur


• Indictment of Sudanese Leader Seen as Threat to Peacekeepers


• Interview with Isabel McDonald on Why Intervention in Darfur Would Fail Miserably


• Justice Off Course in Darfur


• None of America's Business


• One-sided reporting that is delaying an end to the killing


• Packaging a Tragedy


• Peace, not indictment, stirs Sudanese


• Seven peacekeepers killed in ambush in Darfur


• Some see a time bomb ticking in Darfur camps


• Sudan to ICC: Darfur violence may increase if you indict President Bashir


• The Darfur deception


• The Humanitarian Temptation


• The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency


• The Trail of Evidence: The Controversial U.S. Retaliatory Missile Strikes


• To Bomb Sudan Plant, or Not: A Year Later, Debates Rankle


• What About Darfur?


• Why Darfur intervention is a mistake

Al-Qaida Links

Al-Qaida Links

Afghanistan-Pakistan

• Al-Qaida's got a brand new bag


• Al-Qaida adds muscle to the Taliban's fight


• Al-Qaida hails 'revival' in Afghanistan


• 'Al-Qaida is not interested in Afghanistan'


• Bin Laden: Where is he? Who's protecting him? Why can't we find him?


• Bin Laden Hunt Hurt by U.S. Disrespect of Afghans, Experts Say


• How U.S. Strategy in Tora Bora Failed


• Into Thin Air


• Jihadis shift attention to war in Afghanistan


• Like the Wild, Wild West. Plus Al-Qaida.


• Lost at Tora Bora


• The Bin Laden needle in a haystack


• The New Al-Qaida Central


• U.S. considers enlisting tribes in Pakistan to fight al-Qaida


• U.S. fuels Pakistan bounty market


• Undone by Destiny


• Why Bombing and Warnings Are Not Working

Fighting Al-Qaida

• Al-Qaida and the Tale of Two Battlespaces


• Al-Qaida Strikes Back


• Amid U.S. Policy Disputes, Al-Qaida Grows in Pakistan


• Bin Laden Laughs


• Bin Laden Returns


• Bush's Botched War on Terrorism


• CIA Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden


• Combatting Muslim Extremism


• Defeat is Victory, Death is Life


• Going Old School on Al-Qaida


• How's al-Qaida doing? You decide


• Hunting Bin Laden--The Trail of Evidence: The Controversial Retaliatory Missile Strikes


• More Defense Spending, Less Security


• Rumsfeld's Pet Tyrants


• Seven Questions for Michael Scheuer on National Security


• The future of 'the long war' mapped out at Harvard's Kennedy School


• The State of the Jihad, As He Might See It


• The war of unintended consequences


• The War on Terrorism Is a Deadly Sham


• U.S. al-Qaida strategy seen as fatally flawed


• U.S. Pushes Anti-Terrorism in Africa


• U.S. takes terrorism fight to Africa's 'Wild West'


• U.S. wars have helped al-Qaida, says report


• War in Error


• Why Al-Qaida Will Lose


• Why Terrorists Fight

Iraq and the Wider Middle East, and North Africa

• A Betty Ford clinic for jihadis


• Al-Qaida's No. 2 Mocks Iraq War Debate


• Bin Laden benefits from U.S. focus on Iraq


• Bin Laden wanted U.S. invasion of Iraq, author says


• How al-Qaida views a long Iraq war


• Koranic duels ease terrorism


• Strategic shift in North Africa militancy


• U.S. Intel: Al-Qaida May Move Outside Iraq


• Yemen's Deals with Jihadists Unsettle the U.S.


• Zawahiri Says Iraq Main Field of Jihad, Attacks Iran, Sadr, Nasrallah

The 9/11 Attacks and Its Effects

• 9/11 and Bush's Negligence


• 9/11 Commission Executive Director Had Closer White House Ties Than Publicly Disclosed: Book


• Able Danger hearing sets intelligence officers at odds


• Ex-Saudi ambassador: Kingdom could have helped U.S. prevent 9/11


• From Communism to Terrorism


• Retro-Reality


• States of Denial


• Suspicious profits sit uncollected


• Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice


• Unconnected Dots


• Why Doesn't the 9/11 Commission Know About Michael Mukasey's 9/11 Story?


• Why suicide attackers haven't hit U.S. again

What Al-Qaida and Its Allies and Admirers Are Up To

• Al-Qaida's Growing Online Offensive


• A new, younger jihadi threat emerges


• Al-Qaida Expanding Recruitment of Children, Reaching into Central Asia


• Al-Qaida said to focus on WMD


• Does Osama bin Laden Still Matter?


• Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave


• Ragtag Insurgency in Algeria Gains a Lifeline from Al-Qaida


• Unlike Bush, bin Laden Keeps His Word

Why Al-Qaida Fights as It Does and Receives Support

• A Book Americans Must Read Before Time Runs Out


• A Fire Bell in the Night for the West?


• Al-Qaida to West: It's about policies


• Clueless Presidential Candidates Make Osama's Day


• Doing bin Laden's Work for Him


• It's What We Do


• Nationalism, Not Islam, Motivates Most Suicide Bombers


• Nobody Attacks Civilization


• Terrorism Is a Tactic


• Reading minds of suicide bombers


• The Logic of Suicide Bombing


• The rise of a jihadi suicide culture


• The terrorism theory Bush refuses to hear


• Transcript of Osama Bin Ladin interview by Peter Arnett


• U.S. Politicians' Willful Ignorance About Al-Qaida, How U.S. Foreign Policy Is Its One Indispensible Ally, and the Danger of Future Attacks


• West's policies must change


• Why Insurgents Seek Victory by Suicide Bomb


• Why jihadists target the West


• Why They Hate Us

American-Israeli Relations Links

American-Israeli Relations Links

Israeli Spying and Covert Action on the U.S.

• A new style of turncoat


• Court throws out govt appeals in Rosen case


• Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America?


• Espionage and the First Amendment


• Ex-Engineer for Army Is Accused of Spying for Israel in 1980s


• First Amendment Issues Raised About Espionage Act


• Hot Links in the Morning: A Suspected Israeli Spy Is Arrested


• Israel Might Have Many More Spies Here, Officials Say


• Israel to Kill in U.S., Allied Nations


• President Bush says you're a spy


• The AIPAC Spy Trial—Justice Delayed, And Likely Denied


• The Spy Who Loves Us


• Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage

The Israel Lobby

• 'Bad for the Jews'


• 'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy'


• A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy


• Articles of faith


• Breaking the silence


• Conflated Loyalties


• Does Abe Foxman Have an Anti-Anti-Semite Problem?


• Enough Is Enough


• Ferment Over 'The Israel Lobby'


• Freedom's Watch and 'Strong Supporters of Israel'


• Inside America's powerful Israel lobby


• Interview with Grant F. Smith: The intrigue behind the AIPAC spy case, long rage patterns of neocon duplicity and criminality, the history behind the Logan Act, the complicity of the media, etc.


• Israel and Moral Blackmail


• Its Origins and Growth: The Power of the Israel Lobby


• Looking into the Lobby


• Neocons Gone Wild


• Opening the Debate on Israel


• Prophets in Their Own Land


• So Who's Afraid of the Israel Lobby?


• The Game-Playing with 'Dual Loyalty' and 'Anti-Semitism' Accusations


• The Loathsome Smearing of Israel's Critics


• The Lobby and the Bulldozer


• The Lobby Strikes Back


• The New Thought Police


• The Storm Over 'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy'


• The Storm Over the Israel Lobby


• The Wall of Silence


• Turning on to J Street


• Unrealists

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Presidential Elections

• Barack Obama's Israel Bond


• Candidates' Unconditional Support Isn't Right for Jewish State


• Candidates Show Their Zeal for Israel by Wholeheartedly Rejecting Policies It Has Already Taken


• Clinton, Edwards Square Off at AIPAC Dinner


• Former Mossad Chief Argues for Talks with Hamas: Halevy’s views beyond the pale of American politics


• Has Obama Trapped the Israel Lobby? A Theory...


• Israel Fans Groan Over Hillary Speech


• Obama: Not only Likudniks can be pro-Israeli


• Obama's Israel Test


• Obama's spirit of change could harm Israel: Malcolm Hoenlein, head of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations


• Obama Distinguishes Between 'Pro-Israel' and Pro-Likud


• Rendering public opinion irrelevant


• The Lobby Like No Other Wants a War Like No Other


• The War Party Targets Obama


• What should have been said to AIPAC

The Liberty Incident

• Demand answers about the Liberty incident


• Time for the truth about the Liberty

U.S. Backing of Israel, Governmental and Otherwise

• 'The American Left (Dailykos) Also Is Claimed by the Israel Lobby'


• A Mad Foreign Policy: America's Irrational Defense of Israel


• Aid to Israel is Out of Hand


• Banned in the USA (Almost)


• Christians take sides in Holy Land conflict


• Cut Israel Off


• Cut 'Sovereign' Israel Loose


• Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to U.S.


• Evangelical faith drives Palin's pro-Israel view


• Friends and enemies: Jews would be well advised not to regard evangelical American Christians as their allies in a battle against Muslims


• In New York, Sparks Fly Over Israel Criticism


• Israel: The Dead Roach in America's Salad


• Obama Up Against the Middle East 'Berlin Wall'


• Rapturous night for U.S. evangelicals in West Bank


• The Jewish Divide on Israel


• When American Conservatives Loved the Palestinians

Arabian Peninsula Links

Arabian Peninsula Links

• Are the Sanaa Embassy Attacks Blowback from Iraq?


• BAE: Secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince


• Gag Order: How Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar muscled Tony Blair into silence


• Qatar, Playing All Sides, Is a Nonstop Mediator


• Saudi prince Bandar bin Sultan's assets frozen


• The documents: 'If this caused another 7/7…'


• The Prince and the Prime Minister


• The Saudis do not give up their secrets, Mr. Blair


• What Michael Moore (and the neocons) don't know about Saudi Arabia


• Yemen's fight against resurgent al-Qaida


• Yemen's Three Rebellions


• Yemen blast just one sign of nation's troubles


• Yemen Uncovered

Balkans Links

Balkans Links

Islamists in Bosnia and Kosovo

• A U.S. Prisoner From Bosnia Is Labeled a Top Al-Qaida Aide


• Al-Qaida's Balkan Links


• America used Islamists to arm Bosnian Muslims


• Bin Laden linked to Albania: report


• Former soldiers fight to stay in Bosnia


• How Bosnian Muslims Dodged Arms Embargo


• How the West trained al-Qaida


• The taint of association


• U.S. supported al-Qaida cells during Balkan Wars

Kosovo's Independence

• A Separate Peace?


• Creating Crisis: Another War in the Balkans?


• Does Balkanization Beckon Anew?


• If Kosovo, Then Why Not Palestine?


• In Asian Reaction to Kosovo Declaration, Fears of Secession


• Independent Kosovo? Why Not Vermont?


• Kosovo: Fools Rush In


• Kosovo, the Kremlin, and the Kurds


• Kosovo’s Independence Will Stir Up Trouble. Who Will Benefit?


• Serbia embassy attacks condemned


• Serbs Look to History to Explain Fury


• The Crisis in Kosovo is Just Beginning


• The problem with nationalism


• The Real Story Behind Kosovo's Independence


• The Solution to the Kosovo Problem


• What about all the other Kosovos?


• What Kosovo's Independence Means for the Balkans--and for Europe


• Why Canada should not recognize Kosovo

NATO's 1999 War and Its Aftermath

• A Better Way in Kosovo?


• A Postmodern Declaration


• A System to Enforce Imperial Power Will Only Be Resisted


• Al-Jazeera, Serbia, and Liberal Amnesia


• America's Illegal War


• Botched Kosovo intervention dims hopes for peace


• Confrontation over Pristina airport


• Depleted uranium 'killing Italian troops'


• Despite Tales, the War in Kosovo Was Savage, but Wasn't Genocide


• Diving into the Kosovo Quagmire


• Don't Forget Yugoslavia


• Ex-Nato chief criticises Kosovo campaign


• How the battle lies were drawn


• Iraq and the Kosovo Connection


• Just as we try to escape from Blair's last and bloodiest war, so his first one is coming back to haunt us


• Killing Journalists


• Kosovo: Another Case of Mass Deception?


• Kosovo's women suffer


• Kosovo and the Empire Crazies


• Nation-Destroying in the Balkans


• NATO's Kosovo Colony


• NATO Comes Clean on Cluster Bombs Dropped on Serbia


• NATO force 'feeds Kosovo sex trade'


• Reports from Kosovo:In One Village, Albanian Men Are Everywhere


• Serb killings 'exaggerated' by west


• The Kosovo effect


• The Road to Racak


• The Rule of Lawlessness in Kosovo


• The spoils of another war


• War’s dead haunt both sides in Kosovo


• Was Serbia a Practice Run for Iraq?


• Where are all the bodies buried?

Serbia

• A Bad Omen


• Court clears Serbia of genocide


• In the Middle of the Road


• Lies of the vigilantes


• Milosevic wants Clinton to testify


• Slobodan Milosevic, RIP


• The Karadzic Capture and Serbia’s Return to Power

The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)

• KLA finances war with heroin sales


• KLA Linked To Enormous Heroin Trade


• Kosovo's Dilemma: What to Do About the KLA?


• Kosovo 'Freedom Fighters' Financed by Organized Crime


• Kosovo Rebel Army Not All-Volunteer


• The Crime Syndicate Behind the KLA

Bush-Cheney Presidency Links

Bush-Cheney Presidency Links

• A Collapsing Presidency


• A Failed Public Diplomat


• America’s Ideologue in Chief


• And the Winner Is...


• Arrested Critic Seeks Cheney Testimony


• Belligerent Until the Bitter End


• Bush's Iranian Twin


• Bush's Power


• Bush's Satanic Verses


• Bush's Useful Idiots


• Bush's War Against Evil


• Bush is No Conservative


• Cheney, the Neocons, and China


• Did Dick Cheney Give Bush Plausible Deniability?


• Fire the Bums!


• Freedom as a Ticket for Power


• From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld…


• George W. Bush and the 14 points of fascism


• Hey, Democrats, the Truth Matters!


• Hiding Behind the Troops


• House tied in knots over resolution to impeach Cheney


• How Bush Visit Became the Siege Of Howard U.


• How Conservatives Went Crazy


• Immoral Relativism


• Lies and Official Secrets


• Man Sues Secret Service Agent Over Arrest After


• Of Propaganda and Policy


• Prepare for Perpetual War


• President Bush’s Metamorphosis in Foreign Policy


• Rummy Rules


• The Brownshirting of America


• The Dark Heart of Dick Cheney


• The false Beltway script never changes


• The Grave Threat is the Bush Administration


• The New Leninism: The Theory & Practice of Bushevism


• The Problem with Presidential Signing Statements: Their Use and Misuse by the Bush Administration

Canada Links

Canada Links

General

• A Lesson From Across the Atlantic


• Afghan mission cost $3.5 billion and counting


• Attack Canada!


• Canada's 2006 Election: A Chilling Echo of Bush's Republicans


• Canada's Supreme Court reprimands CSIS over policy of destroying evidence


• Canada Cannot Be America's B Team


• Canada Places U.S., Israel on Torture Watch List


• Canada quietly halted transfer of Afghan detainees


• Canada Talks of Extending Afghan Role, With a Catch


• Declassified memos show 74 CIA air landings in Canada


• Federal government quietly releases $490B military plan


• Keeping the faith for the sake of all our Aqsa Parvezes


• Return of the Censors


• U.S. Soldiers No Longer Find Haven in Canada

Tasers

• 'Nobody deserves to die that way', dad says of teen hit with Taser


• Canadian police commissioner says airport officers reassigned after Taser death


• Chicago Study Calls Taser’s Safety Claims Into Question


• Mounties Zap Details from Taser Reports as Firings Soar Across Canada


• One-third of people shot by Taser need medical attention: probe


• Police Rapped for Using Taser on Girl in Bedroom


• Polish-speaking airport worker wasn't asked to help


• Studies on Tasers Are Flawed, Cardiologist Tells Inquiry


• Subdued with Taser, pepper spray and baton, B.C. man dies in hospital


• Tallying Tasers


• Taser video shows RCMP shocked immigrant within 25 seconds of their arrival


• Tasers Don’t Reduce Shootings, Despite Police and Politicians’ Claims


• The Debate Rages Over Safety of Tasers


• Video of Taser Death in Canada Sparks Probe

The Terrorist Plot Revealed in June 2006

• Canada's Almost-9/11?


• Canada Confronts Its Shadows Within


• They Hate Canada Too, Eh?

Egypt Links

Egypt Links

The Muslim Brotherhood

• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: Political Islam Without al-Qaida


• Islamic Democrats?


• Islamist Draft Manifesto Stirs Controversy


• The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood

The Political Situation

• Are Egypt's Democratic Reforms Done?


• Bush's war and the Egyptian elections


• Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim vs. the Ugly Dictator


• Egypt's bubbling cauldron


• Egypt ponders price of Islamists' gains


• Inside Egypt


• Opposition party in Egypt faces dissent from within


• The Pharaoh and the Rebel


• The Realities of Exporting Democracy

Guantanamo Bay Links

Guantanamo Bay Links

Closing Guantanamo

• Close Gitmo? Be Careful What You Wish For


• Close Guantanamo now


• The Gitmo 'decider'

Force-Feeding Prisoners and Other Abuses

• A General's Dishonor


• An Expert Reveals Chinese Origins of Interrogation Techniques at Guantanamo


• Doctors attack U.S. over Guantanamo


• Guantanamo Bay interrogations based on faulty Chinese communist methods


• Leaked Guantanamo Military Operating Manual Reveals Isolation, Sensory Deprivation Was Official Army Policy to Break Prisoners


• >Mind Games at Gitmo


• Scandal of force-fed prisoners


• Stop Force-Feeding Inmates, Doctors Tell U.S.


• Suspect excesses?


• The awfully nice guys allowing torture at Guantanamo Bay


• Top Bush aides pushed for Guantanamo torture


• Tough U.S. Steps in Hunger Strike at Camp in Cuba

Omar Khadr

• Canada, Guantanamo, and Yankee Poodles


• Canada's Glaring Double Standards on Torture: Omar Khadr and Guantanamo


• Canada's Secret Documents on Khadr's Treatment Revealed


• Canada ignores calls for youth held at Guantanamo to come home


• Canadian Becomes First Child Soldier Since Nuremberg to Stand Trial for War Crimes


• Doubts raised about Khadr's role in firefight


• Harper brushes off evidence of Guantanamo torture


• Khadr's lawyers claim proof he's not 'enemy combatant'


• Khadr interrogation raises troubling questions


• Khadr secret document released by accident

The 2008 U.S. Supreme Court Guantanamo Ruling

• Critics Study Possible Limits to Habeas Corpus Ruling


• John Yoo’s Ongoing Falsehoods in Service of Limitless Government Power


• McCain Takes Gitmo Ruling Personally


• Supreme Court preserves a razor-thin redemption


• Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act


• The Founders' Rights Stuff


• The Supreme Court's Gitmo Ruling: What Does It Mean?

The Guantanamo Hearings/Trials

• ACLU: U.S. Government Blocking Payments to Guantanamo Attorneys


• American credibility on trial


• Bin Laden driver gets 66 months--but will never be released


• Bin Laden's driver gets light sentence, thanks military jury


• Bush Justice


• Defendants' Lawyers Fear Loss of Potential Evidence at Guantanamo Bay


• Gitmo's Kangaroo Court


• Gitmo Detainee’s Lawyer 'Not Allowed To Tell Him' He’s No Longer An 'Enemy Combatant'


• Guantanamo defendants mostly low-level figures


• Guantanamo defense lawyers see stacked deck


• Hamdan's Secret


• Hamdan Given 66 Months, Less Time Served, Plus Life


• Have military commissions been worth it?


• In the end, the means truly matter


• Military Judge Finds Political Manipulation in Gitmo, Again


• Rigged Trials at Gitmo


• Salim Hamdan’s Sentence Signals the End of Guantanamo


• Some Cleared Guantanamo Inmates Stay in Custody


• The 'Conviction' of Salim Hamdan, Those Crimes Which Constitute 'War Crimes', the Illegitimacy and Political Manipulation of the Military Tribunals, and Other Issues


• The Agency Name That Dare Not Be Spoken


• The bizarre trial of bin Laden's driver


• The First Guantanamo Military Commission 'Trial' of Salim Hamdan, the Low Bar the Government is Trying to Set as Precedent, Hamdan’s Doom to Stay Detained for the Rest of His Life, and Other Issues


• The Irrelevancy of the Gitmo Trials


• Torture Claim Credible, British Court Finds


• War crimes closer to home


• White House Proposal Would Expand Authority of Military Courts


• Why Most Americans Don't Care About Gitmo (and Why They Should)


• Why No Trial by Jury at Gitmo?

The Innocence of (Some) Guantanamo Prisoners

• 'I will never leave Guantanamo'


• A Blind Eye to Guantanamo?: Book Says White House Ignored CIA on Detainees' Innocence


• A tunnel without end


• America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men


• Evidence Ignored, German Man Detained


• Guantanamo Military Lawyer Breaks Ranks to Condemn 'Unconscionable' Detention


• Innocence Ignored at Guantanamo


• Pakistan hands hundreds of suspects to U.S. for money: report


• Reports Find Tenuous Ties to Terrorism at Guantanamo


• The Slave Traders of the Gitmo Gulag


• The Worst and the Rest


• Truth and the Gitmo Detainees


• U.S. casts wide net in war on terrorism


• Who's Really Locked Up in Guantanamo?

Miscellaneous

• Counterterrorism Requires Accountability


• Guantanamo testimony: U.S. let bin Laden's top bodyguard go


• The Children of Guantanamo Bay