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Brother of Afghanistan’s President Denies Alleged Involvement i…
Net News Publisher | 2 hours ago by Terry
Ahmed Wali Karzai says politics, not facts, are the basis for published reports linking him to heroin shipments. The brother of Aghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, contends political foes are generating the allegations. The New York Times new read more
McPain Smear-athon Debunked, 1: Afghanistan Slander
Orange Juice! | 5 hours ago by Art Pedroza
I’ll just let Spencer Ackerman debunk this one - why re-invent the wheel? (although I should add that the second slander in the ad, that “Congressional liberals voted to cut off funding for our troops” - is just as true about McCai read more
European Rights Group Weighs Russia-Georgia Crisis
The Seferm Post | 8 hours ago
Russia and Georgia could be suspended from Europe's top human rights body unless the two countries uphold their obligations to prevent abuses in the aftermath of their short but fierce war, the... Get Breaking News, Most Popular Politics News, Elect read more
We can’t defeat the Taliban: British Army Chief in Afghanistan
Pakistan Punch | 9 hours ago by Moin Ansari
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Pakistan: Government to Deport All Afghans from Tribal Region
The Seferm Post | 9 hours ago
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.... Get Breaking News, Most Popular Politics News, read more
Return of the Taliban
Mike & Albaiza's Common Sense | 11 hours ago by Mike
Evidently the United States cannot continue to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Secretary of Defense Gates is now telling the members of NATO, as well as Japan, who do not have troops in Afghanistan, that they either have to provide troops or mo read more
A three-step plan to slimfast your military overstretch
What You Must Read | 11 hours ago by andrew
Step 1 in correcting the United States' Mideast/South Asia policy: shift battlefronts from Iraq to Afghanistan.Step 2 in correcting the United States' Mideast/South Asia policy: understand that Afghanistan cannot be won without Pakistan.Step 3 in c read more
Saudi talks with Taliban, fake or propaganda?
Baghdad Dweller | 13 hours ago
All these talks about the Saudi mediation between the Talaban and Karzai government are fake according to Abdel-Bari Atwan [a real expert on Al-Qaeda, not one of those internet experts]: It is impossible for the Taliban to accept the Saudis as negoti read more
Afghanistan: Could It Be True? Peace On The Horizon?
ProgressiveHistorians | 13 hours ago by Nonpartisan
It is high time that the ludicrous war, that FUBAR, in Afghanistan ended by putting aside incompetence and finally acting competently in the matter: Sources: Taliban split with al Qaeda, seek... (Read the full post at ProgressiveHistorians.) read more
Afghanistan: Could It Be True? Peace On The Horizon?
Another Point of View | 13 hours ago by Pierre H. Vachon
It is high time that the ludicrous war, that FUBAR, in Afghanistan ended by putting aside incompetence and finally acting competently in the matter:Sources: Taliban split with al Qaeda, seek peaceTaliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with read more
Bailout Provides Broader Mental Health Coverage
Impact Lab | 14 hours ago
Representative Patrick J. Kennedy speaking at a rally in March on Capitol Hill. Mr. Kennedy and Representative Jim Ramstad, third from left, led the fight in the House for mental health parity. More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive b read more
Afghanistan: A fight we can’t afford to lose
NeoConstant | 14 hours ago by NeoConstant
As I watched on television as the coffins of five more young British soldiers were carried from an aircraft at RAF Brize Norton yesterday, and with the number of British dead in Afghanistan now over one hundred, a small part of me thought, ‘is read more
Afghanistan, Global Drug Free Market
theFreshScent | 15 hours ago
As we watch perhaps more poorly executed Bush foreign policy go by the wayside, I honestly wish saying, “I told you so,” was more satisfying. Not only did his search for Osama in the wrong country come up not surprisingly, empty-handed. B read more
Air Strikes
Brien Jackson on Politics | 16 hours ago
It’s Monday morning, so John McCain has a new negative ad out, this one about Obama’s comments on Aghan airstrikes: Now, I don’t want to talk about the ad, mostly because it’s already been largely discredited. Instead, IR read more
Hitchens On Afghanistan: Surge Won’t Work
Donklephant | 17 hours ago
I agree with everything Chris has to say here. If Afghanistan has any hope of recovering, it’ll have to be via standard of living improvements, and nobody can make a living if we destroy their only cash crop. Especially when we could be buying read more
The White Flag of Surrender - In Afghanistan
All Spin Zone | 17 hours ago by Richard Blair
In the U.S., the neocon uberhawks only think in shades of black and white. No war has ever been won against non-state sponsored actors. It always -- always -- comes down to a negotiation process, and finishing up business in both Iraq and Afghanist read more
The Taliban war on women
Bad Thinking | October 6th 2008 by Hubert Xapier
The Independent: "Three years ago, Kim Sengupta interviewed five women who wanted to build a new Afghanistan. Today, three are dead and a fourth has fled." read more
Palin Twists Madeleine Albright’s Words
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 6th 2008
I’ve spent the weekend preparing for my move cross country in two weeks and not paying much attention to the news once again. Sorry readers… Once I am relocated (and settled) in beautiful coastal Maine, I’ll be back on track here on read more
Folkhälsoinstitutet och narkotikan
Svensson | October 6th 2008 by Anders Svensson
Det är nåt som inte stämmer med Folkhäsloinstitutet rapport om ökad dödlighet bland heroinister. Dödligheten ökar oavsett om de får metadon för att sluta med heroinet eller om de går på heroin. Denna del av artikeln i DN finns det väl eg read more
Is Bin Laden winning the war?
Pakistan Ledger | October 5th 2008 by Moin Ansari
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Talk? We don’t talk, diplomacy is for…
The Will Rhodes Portmanteau | October 5th 2008 by Will Rhodes
…pussies! It still has me thinking and then giggling like a little girl that McCain keeps saying that the McCain administration wouldn’t talk to anyone as long as they were regarded as “terrorist”. But as McCain lives in a wo read more
Bosnia: City Voters Boycott Local Polls
The Seferm Post | October 5th 2008
Many Bosnian city dwellers, supporters of small, multi-ethnic parties, boycotted local polls Sunday in which nationalists reflecting ethnic rivalries are expected to hang onto power, 13 years after... Get Breaking News, Most Popular Politics News, E read more
Chechnya Renames Capital's Avenue After Vladimir Putin
The Seferm Post | October 5th 2008
A central avenue in the capital of Russia's Chechnya region, Grozny, was named after former president Vladimir Putin Sunday, honoring the man who sent in troops to crush a separatist rebellion there.... Get Breaking News, Most Popular Politics News, read more
Pakistanis Eye Barack Obama and John McCain
The Seferm Post | October 5th 2008
A Pakistani wish list for the next U.S. president might read something like this: an end to cross-border strikes on militants, more aid for the country's battered economy and greater support for its... Get Breaking News, Most Popular Politics News, read more
GORDON BROWN ASKS A BLIND MAN TO HELP STEER THE TITANIC
Caledonian Comment | October 5th 2008 by Caledonian Jim
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown plans to bring David Blunkett (pictured above) back into the Cabinet in yet another futile bid to revive New Labour’s political fortunes by re-hiring has-beens. Blunkett, the blind serial sexual philanderer who le read more
Commandant britannique: "la guerre contre les Talibans ne peut ê…
Le Café Politicien | October 5th 2008
Lu sur Times On Line-Selon le commandant du corps expéditionnaire britannique Mark Carleton Smith, la guerre en Afghanistan ne peut être gagnée.Ces déclarations suivent celles de l'ambassadeur britannique à Kaboul, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles qui a read more
NATO troops capture another Taliban commander
Infidels Are Cool | October 5th 2008 by John Infidelesto
A high ranking Taliban leader has been captured in southern Afghanistan. read more
UK MILITARY COMMANDER SAYS WAR AGAINST THE TALIBAN CANNOT BE WON
THE BIG FEED | October 5th 2008 by THE BIG FEED
Witness the total collapse of the British Empire. Imagine if the Americans had told the British that the war against Nazi Germany could not be won. Frankly, the Brits and every other European country are worthless as military allies. Absolutely wo read more
Opinions on Afghanistan
Outside The Beltway | OTB | October 5th 2008 by James Joyner
Yesterday the New York Times published three op-eds presenting opinions on Afghanistan, one by Robert D. Kaplan, one by Nathaniel C. Fick and Vikram J. Singh, fellows at the Center for a New American Security, and Nader Nadery and Haseeb Humayoon, tw read more
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