Meteor Blades, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. November 20, 2009. And corruption is viewed as one of the key obstacles in dealing with the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.
Pratap Chatterjee, Tomdispatch.com. November 18, 2009. An eye-opening inside look at how the system of nepotism and corruption in Afghanistan actually works.
John Nichols, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2009. "End the U.S. Occupation and Air War in Afghanistan" is the title of a resolution endorsed over by the 300-member executive board of the California party.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. November 13, 2009. One reason Afghan villagers prefer dealing with the Taliban than govt. security forces is that the latter have a habit of seizing their sons at checkpoints and sodomizing them.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. November 13, 2009. Fine-tuning the U.S. war in Afghanistan is no substitute for acknowledging -- with words and with policy -- that there will be no military solution.
Robert Greenwald, November 11, 2009. News reports indicate that in the next few weeks, President Obama plans to announce his decision to send up to 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Dahr Jamail, Asia Times. November 10, 2009. The shooting tragedy at Fort Hood on Friday points to a much larger problem of combat stress and overdeployment in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. November 9, 2009. Forget the "debates" in Washington over Afghan War policy. Construction activity and the flow of money suggests that the Pentagon plans to be there for a long, long time.
Aaron Glantz, New America Media. November 6, 2009. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the people who died will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jodie Evans, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog. November 6, 2009. Meddling in Afghanistan’s elections and U.S. failure at every turn to deliver security and justice is increasing the potency of the Taliban.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. November 4, 2009. Can we avoid an approach to Afghanistan where impending disaster is seen as an invitation to make things even worse?
Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. November 4, 2009. One NY Times reporter finally 'fesses up that the invasion of Iraq wasn't presented truthfully by the big media outlets. It's still not too late to tell the truth.
Kim Sengupta, Independent UK. November 2, 2009. The much-anticipated runoff vote in Afghanistan has become a one-horse race for President Hamid Karzai.
Leslie Savan, TheNation.com AlterNet: World. October 30, 2009. Obama is better at just about every act of presidenting than Bush was, more graceful, more self-aware. But that's not the point.
Ann Jones, The Nation. October 28, 2009. What happens to women in Afghanistan is not merely a "women's issue." It is the central issue of stability, development and durable peace.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com AlterNet: World. October 26, 2009. NoEscalation.org tracks who has taken a stand, listing phone numbers so you can call and ask legislators to do the right thing.
