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Afghan File
Afghanistan
Technology spectacles mask weaknesses
Abstract: Future U.S. wars in the Third World will involve massive use of drones to police the territory, employment of local satrap1 forces (such as
MARC W. HEROLD
World Affairs
Kunduz massacre
THE magic cut-off is revealed to be about 30 to 40. Such revealed facts tell far more than mere words. Some years ago, Human Rights Watchs Marc Garlas
MARC W. HEROLD
Lead Story
Afghan Tragedy
A TACIT agreement operates between the Obama administration, the United States corporate media, most progressive U.S. liberals, and the United Nations
MARC W. HEROLD
Afghanistan
Terror, U.S. style
Nothing has changed for us in this new Afghanistan, said 16-year-old Seema, in early 2007, whose father was killed by a U.S. liberating bomb in Octobe
MARC W. HEROLD
World Affairs
Deadly change
THE first Afghan civilian killed by United States/North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (U.S./NATO) action in the New Year was a boy named Marjan, killed
MARC W. HEROLD
Lead Story
Matrix of Death
A new dossier on the (im)precision of U.S. bombing and the (under)valuation of Afghan lives.
MARC W. HEROLD
Afghanistan
Understanding Barack Obama
He promises nothing other than what already is in Afghanistan: prolonged low-intensity conflict with endless death and destruction.
MARC W. HEROLD
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An empty buffer
For the U.S., Afghanistan is a socio-economically irrelevant space to be kept empty through least-cost military means.
MARC W. HEROLD
Relative lethality
The 21st century wars of the U.S. kill large numbers of innocent civilians relative to combatants.
MARC W. HEROLD
Back to the warlords
With the remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban hitting at will, the Hamid Karzai government in Afghanistan is floundering.
JOHN CHERIAN
Testing times
The Bonn accord can be a master plan for peace as it offers Afghans three chances to establish a working government.
B.MURALIDHAR REDDY in Islamabad
Measure for measure
The bombing of Afghanistan as a reflection of 9/11 and different valuations of life.
MARC W. HEROLD
The narco-politics of Afghanistan
The West's indifference towards opium cultivation in Afghanistan has ensured that narcotics, with their money-earning potential, will continue to play
ROMESH BHATTACHARJI
The massacre at Kakarak
Of arrogance and Pentagon-speak, in the midst of chasing Mullah Omar's shadows and keeping Hamid Karzai in power.
MARC W. HEROLD
An Afghan transition
The Bush administration's candidate, Hamid Karzai, is the head of the Afghan government. But it has been no cake-walk.
JOHN CHERIAN
War and resistance
The heavy-handed U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan proceeds on its weary course, but the military achievements have clearly fallen short of the ta
JOHN CHERIAN
Vandalised Afghanistan
The destruction of Afghanistan's cultural treasures during the period of the civil war in looting and illegal excavations has caused a huge loss of hu
OSMUND BOPEARACHCHI
The opacity of Camp X-Ray
The prisoners of the Fifth Afghan War at Guantanamo Bay represent yet another example of violation of international norms by the United States in its
VIJAY PRASHAD
A revival package
The $4.5-billion aid promised by donor-states at the Tokyo Conference, though inadequate, will enable the war-ravaged Afghanistan to start the process
AMIT BARUAH in Tokyo
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