War Glance
A provincial governor says at least 53 people, including nine attackers, have been killed in a daylong gun battle in western Afghanistan.
Officials say the fighting broke out Wednesday after suicide bombers disguised as Afghan soldiers stormed a courthouse in Farah province in a failed bid to free more than a dozen Taliban.
Taliban attacks Afghan courthouse, leaving 53 dead
How the Pentagon Corrupted Afghanistan
America’s post-9/11 conflicts have been wars of corruption, a point surprisingly seldom made in the mainstream media. Keep in mind that George W. Bush’s administration was a monster of privatization. It had its own set of crony corporations, including Halliburton, KBR, Bechtel, and various oil companies, as well as a set of mercenary rent-a
-gun outfits like Blackwater, DynCorp, and Triple Canopy that came into their own in this period. It took the plunge into Iraq in March 2003, sweeping those corporations and an increasingly privatized military in with it. In the process, Iraq would become an example not of the free market system, but of a particularly venal form of crony capitalism (or, as Naomi Klein has labeled it, “disaster capitalism”).
Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier
An Afghan teenager fatally stabbed an American soldier in the neck as he played with children in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, as the U.S. death toll rose sharply last month with an uptick in fighting due to warmer weather.
Last week's calculated attack shows that international troops still face a myriad of dangers even though they are increasingly taking a back seat in operations with Afghan forces ahead of a full withdrawal by the end of 2014.
The message sent by America's invisible victims
The most propagandistic aspect of the US War on Terror has been, and remains, that its victims are rendered invisible and voiceless. They are almost never named by newspapers. They and their surviving family members are virtually never heard from on television.
The Bush and Obama DOJs have collaborated with federal judges to ensure that even those who everyone admits are completely innocent have no access to American courts and thus no means of having their stories heard or their rights vindicated. Radical secrecy theories and escalating attacks on whistleblowers push these victims further into the dark.
NATO strike at militants hurts 8 civilians
According to reports at least 8 Afghan civilians have been injured following NATO airstrike in eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
Officials in provincial hospital confirming the report said at least 8 civilians including two women, one kid and five men were taken to this hospital.
Relatives of the injured civilians are saying that the airstrike was carried out in Espand-De village in eastern Ghaznicity.
An official in Epand-De hospital, Ahmad Wali said, “Coalition forces launched airstrike around 8 am on Saturday morning to target militants and the air raid continued for about one hour.”
US army hands over Bagram prison to Afghanistan
The US has handed over to Afghanistan the only prison still under American control, resolving an issue that has strained ties between the countries. A transfer ceremony took place at Bagram jail, now renamed the Afghan National Detention Facility at Parwan.
The handover came as US Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit for talks with President Karzai. Mr Kerry told a press conference they were both "on the same page" regarding peace talks with the Taliban.
Afghan minister: Give NATO the boot
A former Afghan warlord turned government minister said the country should not agree to further U.S.-led military operations there.
Water and Energy Minister Mohammad Ismail Khan, marking the ninth anniversary of his son's death, told residents in the city of Herat that NATO forces in the country are not making things any safer and leaders should seek to end deals with nations that intend to "dominate" Afghanistan, Khaama Press said Saturday.
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