Ron Paul Thoughts on Occupation

“Imagine armed Chinese troops in your city.” –Ron Paul Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of “keeping […]

The Very Dark Side of U.S. Military History, Part 1

Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the “good guys” spreading “democracy” and “liberty” around the world. Records though suggest a “dark side”to the U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic. Suppressing Native American resistance on the frontiers in the 19th Century –  Of a Cheyenne attack at […]

US aid helps Afghan warlord build an empire

The most powerful man in many parts of Afghanistan is not the provincial governor, nor the police chief, nor even the commander of the Afghan Army. In Oruzgan Province, it is Matiullah Khan, the head of a private army that earns millions of dollars guarding NATO supply convoys and fights Taliban insurgents alongside American Special […]

Aiding the Iraqi Insurgency with US Taxpayer Dollars

According to several senior military and government personnel, USAID’s Community Stabilization Program (CSP) was responsible for sending millions of taxpayer dollars to Iraqi insurgents via a complex web of contractors and subcontractors. These sources claim that although USAID was fully aware of the problem, it delayed acting for as long as possible, unwilling to pull […]

Never enough troops in Afghanistan

An article in the Stars and Stripes reports, “Despite the addition of more than 50,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the past year, there still aren’t enough forces to conduct operations in the majority of key areas, according to a congressionally mandated report on progress in Afghanistan.” Coalition forces have decided to focus their efforts […]

Might this make one question MSM reporting of the War in Afghanistan?

Salon reports an example of how the Western mainstream media covers the war and its atrocities: On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in […]

Col. Imam: “Taliban will tire and defeat American forces in Afghanistan”

Pakistani Brig. Sultan Amir speaks highly of the Americans he worked with. But he predicts failure for the United States in Afghanistan. And his views carry the weight of someone who knows his subject well. The Pakistani man known by his nom de guerre, Col. Imam, is a particular enigma. Once a promising protégé for […]

U.S. Congress investigating military contractors in Afghanistan

There are currently 104,000 Pentagon contractors in Afghanistan — a figure that could soon rise to 160,000. (Compare this figure to the 100, 000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan expected at the height of Obama’s coming surge.) Finally, Congress is launching a broad-ranging investigation into possible waste, misuse and corruption tied to billions of taxpayer dollars […]

Your tax dollars at work –funding the enemy in Afghanistan

Two years ago, Afghanistan’s intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), alerted the American military with “very detailed” reports explaining how the Taliban were profiting financially from protecting convoys of US supplies in Afghanistan. A military official in Kabul explained, “We understand that across the board 10 percent to 20 percent goes to the […]

Major Iraq bombing may have been inside job

Sunday’s twin suicide bombings in Baghdad that killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 others may have had help from within Iraq’s security apparatus, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reports. “This was a really well coordinated attack on an area in Baghdad that’s supposed to be well protected,” Maddow told viewers. “In order to reach their […]