David DeGraw, Amped Status. December 9, 2009. Increasing numbers of deployed soldiers, mercenaries and drones all add up to Obama being more of a war president than Bush, in terms of hard numbers.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. December 2, 2009. Obama's rationale for escalation in Afghanistan is based on a notion that he recently rejected: the supposedly indissoluble link between the Taliban insurgency and al Qaeda.
John Nichols, The Nation. December 1, 2009. Presidents are not supposed to begin and end the discussion about war. With both parties divided over Afghanistan, it's time for Congress to debate the Obama's war plan.
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. November 24, 2009. An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. And everyone's denying it.
Ashfaq Yusufzai, IPS News. October 27, 2009. Between 2007 and 2009 alone, a total 188 schools for girls and 97 for boys were destroyed by the Taliban in Swat, displacing some 500,000 students.
Fred Branfman, Truthdig. October 9, 2009. The U.S. has even less control over events in Pakistan than it does in Afghanistan -- Obama's really playing with fire here.
Jim Lobe, IPS News. October 6, 2009. Late last week, Congress cleared legislation that would raise the level of U.S. non-military aid to Islamabad over the next five years to an annual rate of 1.5 billion dollars.
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times. September 28, 2009. It will be difficult and dangerous to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda inside Pakistan in a struggle in which there are no guarantees of success.
Jodie Evans, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog AlterNet: World. September 18, 2009. It will take constant pressure on Congress and the White House to get them to pull back from the fog of war.
Danielle Kurtzleben, IPS News. August 13, 2009. The Obama Administration is touting a new, broad approach to winning the fight against insurgent groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. August 8, 2009. General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani may be providing assistance to Taliban insurgents, yet the U.S. government continues to fund the Pakistan military.
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. July 30, 2009. In an exclusive interview, Feingold argues why his lone vote to oppose expanding the military by 30,000 soldiers was the right one.
Juan Cole, Tomdispatch.com. July 28, 2009. The doomsday rhetoric in Washington over lightly settled, mountainous Pashtun tribal lands is strikingly similar to that of the British Empire.
Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the media, a watchdog said Thursday.
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: World. July 20, 2009. The U.S. and India had a much easier time negotiating a multi-billion dollar arms deal than an agreement to protect the environment.
Sonali Kolhatkar, New America Media. July 18, 2009. The new offensive is an attempt "to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda." But what will actually be gained such brute force?
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: PEEK. July 14, 2009. WSJ editors attack journalists who report on civilian deaths. Instead, they say, we should all just shut up and listen to U.S. intelligence agencies.
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. July 3, 2009. We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.
Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com. June 24, 2009. Drones attacked a suspected 'militant hideout' Wednesday, killing at least 17. Then drones struck again, this time killing mourners.
