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Anglo-Saxon Troops Should Leave Afghanistan

by Andrey Fomin

1 December 2012

Negotiations began last week in Kabul between Afghanistan and the USA on a security agreement regarding the terms for the presence of American troops in the country following the official withdrawl of the foreign contingent in 2014. Evidently, the peacekeeper’s Nobel Laureates already played (...)

Statement by Hamid Karzai at 67th UN General Assembly

by Hamid Karzai

New York (USA) | 25 September 2012

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Every year our gathering in this prestigious hall is a manifestation of our faith in the fundamental
equality of nations, as well as the continued relevance of the United Nations as the key international
forum for achieving a safer, more (...)

Obama Afghanistan deaths top those of Bush

25 August 2012

Sgt. Louis R. Torres of Oberlin, Ohio, died August 22, 2012, of injuries sustained by an explosive device in Kandahar two weeks earlier.
Now the longest conflict in U.S. history, the Afghanistan war has taken the lives of 2,000 Americans, half of whom were killed in just the past two and a (...)

THE ART OF WAR

The Afghan bottomless pit

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 17 July 2012

In the Orwellian world drawn up by NATO, wars are processes that allow the wealth of the people to flow to the cash registers of multinationals engaged in the manufacture of weapons. That same money will buy the media of the "free world", ensuring the promotion of wars invented for (...)

The Art of War

Blood red dawn in Kabul

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 23 May 2012

The allies will be able to pull out of Afghanistan; it’s mission accomplished. On the pretext of fighting terrorism, the colonial powers were able to establish a government under their thumb. But such an operation is too expensive: the Afghan regime is protected by 120,000 soldiers, (...)

25th NATO Summit

NATO Chicago Summit Declaration on Afghanistan

Chicago | 21 May 2012

Issued by the Heads of State and Government of Afghanistan and Nations contributing to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
Preamble
Preamble
1. We, the nations contributing to ISAF, and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, met today in Chicago to (...)

Russia bans transit of NATO heroin through its territory

11 April 2012

At the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest, President Dmitry Medvedev renewed the offer to make Russian rail lines available for the transportation of non-military material from Europe to Afghanistan and vice versa.
On 5 April 2012, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, soon to become (...)

The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 27 March 2012

The latest massacre of innocent Afghan civilians and Obama’s personal involvement in the convoluted cover-up reveal the widening cracks in his global war doctrine of which ’Special Forces’ have become the mainstay. With the approaching retreat of US troops and the rising tide of assertive (...)

THE ART OF WAR

Iran, the gas pipeline battle

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 27 March 2012

Two major pipeline projects are at present vying to secure future energy supplies to Pakistan, India and China. One originates in Iran while the second one draws on reserves in Turkmenistan. The latter is promoted by an Israeli group and is supported by Secretary of State Clinton. According to (...)

Panetta sizes up Afghan anger

15 March 2012

The unannounced visit by United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta to Kabul today [14 March 2012] marks a growing awareness in the western capitals that the NATO’s occupation of Afghanistan is becoming untenable. The dreadful killing of 16 Afghans by a US soldier has altered the calculus (...)

A photo from the past

29 September 2011

A photograph from the 80’s has caused a stir in Washington after its publication by several media outlets. It was erroneously assumed that it was Jalaluddin Haqqani shown with President Ronald Reagan.
Beginning September 2011, the US military intelligence had been tipped about a major attack (...)

US Switching From Afghanistan to Central Asia

Moscow (Russia) | 31 July 2011

The hypothesis that the US is planning a partial relocation of its military infrastructures from Afghanistan to Central Asia appears to be gaining momentum. A dead giveaway, according to columnist Aleksandr Shustov, is the heigthened intensity of Washington’s diplomatic transactions with (...)

U.S. Special Forces to offset troop withdrawal in Afghanistan

6 July 2011

U.S. military leaders are working to replace some of the exiting American conventional forces from Afghanistan with a "mini-surge" of U.S. Special Forces, a measure to soothe commanders’ fears that the withdrawal of troops might put at risk military gains, according to The Times out of (...)

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The US defeat in Afghanistan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 4 July 2011

International affairsEditorial: The US defeat in Afghanistan
The Afghan events and their echoes inside the American Congress revealed secret negotiations between President Barack Obama’s administration and the command of the Taliban movement since before the announcement of the death of (...)

President Barack Obama announces troop withdrawal plan for Afghanistan

by Barack Obama

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 22 June 2011

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