Afghanistan

After 18 Years of US Occupation, Poll Finds Zero Percent Of Afghans Thriving, 85 Percent “Suffering”

January 4, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Occupation, US Imperialism

Since the 2001 occupation of Afghanistan began, fighting has not stopped, destroying the country and leading to the U.S. spending an estimated $2 trillion on the war. American polling firm Gallup has found that Afghans are the saddest people on earth, finding that nearly nine in ten respondents are “suffering,” in their own words, with zero percent claiming that they are currently “thriving.” When asked to rate their life out of a score of ten, Afghans gave an average answer of 2.7, a record low for any country studied. Worse still, when asked to predict the quality of their life in five years, the average answer was even lower: 2.3.

Peace And The Withdrawal Of American Soldiers From Afghanistan Put On Hold

January 2, 2020 By Vladimir Odintsov, Journal-neo.org Educate! Afghanistan, Middle East, US military

According to Hawa Alam Nuristani, Chairwoman of the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan, the current president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, came first in the country’s presidential election in late September, gaining 50.64% of the vote. Meanwhile the media previously reported that the campaign team of another presidential candidate, the country’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, filed over 4,000 complaints about the preliminary results of the election. According to a number of experts...

The Real Lesson Of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work

December 21, 2019 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Nationofchange.org Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Regime Change

The trove of U.S. “Lessons Learned” documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, in excruciating detail, the anatomy of a failed policy, scandalously hidden from the public for 18 years. The “Lessons Learned” papers, however, are based on the premise that the U.S. and its allies will keep intervening militarily in other countries, and that they must, therefore, learn the lessons of Afghanistan to avoid making the same mistakes in future military occupations.

Afghan Papers Inadvertently Document WaPo’s Role In Spreading Official Lies

December 20, 2019 Joshua Cho, Fair.org Educate! Afghanistan, Middle East, US Imperialism

The Washington Post’s publication of the “Afghanistan Papers” (12/9/19) unveiled over 2,000 pages of unpublished notes of interviews with US officials involved in the Afghanistan War, from a project led by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) to investigate waste and fraud. Hailed by some as the “Pentagon Papers of Our Generation” after the Post won access to those documents under the Freedom of Information Act in a three-year legal battle, the Post’s exposé found that...

Why The Afghanistan Papers Are An Eerie Reminder Of Vietnam

December 16, 2019 Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Educate! Afghanistan, Wars and Militarism

The trove of documents released by the U.S. government as part of its own internal study on the ongoing U.S. war on Afghanistan is telling. Both the Pentagon Papers on Vietnam and the recent Washington Post disclosures on Afghanistan show that the U.S. government lied to its citizenry about a war that could never be won. If you substitute the word “Afghanistan” for the word “Vietnam,” you could read Noam’s essays from 1973 and imagine that they were written today.

Afghanistan: Graveyard Of Empires

December 15, 2019 By Eric Margolis, American Herald Tribune Educate! Afghanistan, Wars and Militarism

This week, the venerable Washington Post newspaper revealed a bombshell, 2,000 page, secret Pentagon report detailing the astounding failure of US war strategy in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. Americans have been fed a steady stream of lies about the Afghan War. America’s media, with a few small exceptions, has promoted the Pentagon’s war against the Afghan people and totally covered up its atrocities and egregious lies. This war has become a giant, money devouring killing machine that boosts politicians and military contractors. The past presidents who cheered on this disgraceful war against one of the world’s poorest, most backward nations deserve to be disgraced.

The “Afghanistan Papers”: The Criminality And Disaster Of A War Based Upon Lies

December 13, 2019 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The publication Monday by the Washington Post of interviews with senior US officials and military commanders on the nearly two-decades-old US war in Afghanistan has provided a damning indictment of both the criminality and abject failure of an imperialist intervention conducted on the basis of lies. The Post obtained the raw interviews after a three-year Freedom of Information Act court battle. While initially they were not secret, the Obama administration moved to classify the documents after the newspaper sought to obtain them.

I Knew The War In Afghanistan Was A Lie

December 11, 2019 Maj. Danny Sjursen, Truthdig.com Educate! Afghanistan, Middle East, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Nightmares still haunt me. Sometimes it’s the standard stuff associated with classic post-traumatic stress disorder: flashbacks of horrible attacks and images of my mutilated troopers. More often, though, peculiar as it may sound, I dream that my sociopathic, career-obsessed colonel calls to give me another late-night order to do something unnecessary—usually dangerous, always absurd—the next day. We never got along; the man distrusted me from the start. To him, my plainly ironclad loyalty to my young soldiers was suspicious.

The Afghanistan Pentagon Papers

December 10, 2019 By Mel Gurtov, Popular Resistance Educate! Afghanistan, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

The war in Afghanistan, America’s longest, has cost about 2,300 US lives, over 20,000 wounded, and about $1 trillion. Now, thanks to the persistence of the Washington Post, we have an abundance of interviews which, like the Pentagon Papers, reveal the enormous wastefulness, ignorance, and deceit that make Afghanistan, like Vietnam, a chapter in the history of failed US interventions. The war in Afghanistan, America’s longest, has cost about 2,300 US lives, over 20,000 wounded, and about $1 trillion. Now, thanks to the persistence of the Washington Post, we have an abundance of interviews which, like the Pentagon Papers, reveal the enormous wastefulness, ignorance, and deceit that make Afghanistan, like Vietnam, a chapter in the history of failed US interventions.

The CIA’s Terror Regimes In Afghanistan

November 22, 2019 Emran Feroz, Trtworld.com Educate! Afghanistan, CIA, Middle East

It was in the middle of the night in December 2018 when members of the so-called Khost Protection Force (KPF) raided a home in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia and killed six people. Among the victims were Naim Faruqi, a tribal elder and member of the local peace council, as well as his nephew, a young student. Both of them were executed by the paramilitary unit— by headshots – and this was not the first time something like this happened.

US Out Of Syria And The Middle East

October 20, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen

Above: US Out of the Middle East, Los Angeles protest against bombing in Syria from ABC7.com. Stop The Turkish Invasion Of

From Kabul: Youth On The Road To Peace

October 11, 2019 Dr. Hakim, Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Create! Afghanistan, Middle East, Peace, Youth

Despite the violent crises which we human beings have created for Afghanistan and our planet earth, I have witnessed yet again how renewing our relationships with Nature and one another can calm us, teach us, and change us. I saw this happening among the 26 participants of the “Youth on the Road to Peace Conference” organized by the Afghan Peace Volunteers from the 18th to the 21st of September. The youth were rightfully feeling disheartened by the ongoing challenges in their country: war, opposing local and foreign groups in conflict, ISIS, Taliban, U.S./NATO forces, capitalism, climate-change related drought, inequality, racism, rhetoric with no action, societal and personal confusion…

Counting The Dead Through The Fog Of War In Afghanistan

October 3, 2019 By Nicolas J S Davies, Countercurrents.org Educate! Afghanistan, Middle East, Wars and Militarism

During one week in late September, U.S.-led forces killed at least 70 civilians in two incidents in Afghanistan. A U.S. drone strike on September 19th killed at least 30 farmers harvesting pine nuts in Nangarhar province. Then on September 23rd, at least 40 civilians, including women and children, were reported killed in a combined U.S.-Afghan attack on a village in Taliban-controlled territory in southern Helmand province. These massacres gained some attention from the international media.

The Killing And Chaos Of The Afghanistan War Continues

September 23, 2019 BBC Educate! Afghanistan, Donald Trump, Wars and Militarism

The never-ending war in Afghanistan which began with the US invasion on October 7, 2001, continues. BBC is not one of our favored sources of information but this series of articles summarized below presents images of this war that is forgotten on the pages of corporate, mainstream media in the US. It is time for the US to leave Afghanistan. This is a war the US has lost and cannot win. The US has created chaos and killing for an objective that is no longer valid since Osama bin Laden was killed years ago. The US should never relied on war for the 9/11 attack. There are international criminal courts where that crime should have been investigated and prosecuted. The opportunity for negotiation is passed. Now is the time for a rapid, orderly exit.

Trump’s Taliban Talks Led By Neocon Operation Cyclone Agent & PNAC Member

September 13, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Afghanistan, Middle East, Trump Administration

U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, the top American official in the negotiations, has been quietly overseeing the destruction of Afghanistan for most of his political career — longer than the Taliban has existed as an organization. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s firing may be the 9/11 anniversary gift the war-weary American public wanted, but the support he received from the establishment demonstrates that the war machine is much greater than one man.

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