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General David Petraeus,former Commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, with Paula Broadwell.-AP

Rest & recreation, class and General Petraeus

The Broadwell-Petraeus affair was simply an upper-class mirror image of the common GIs consumption of conveyor belt rest and recreation during America

Occupied Afghanistan. A U.S. Marine patrol in Marjah in Helmand province on February 19.-AP

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

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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

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 17.-ALEX BRANDON/AP

Obamas unspoken trade-off

BURIED in the public relations blather of United States Marine legions liberating Helmand and Afghan (sham) elections as democracy restored1 is an uns

Afghan Tragedy

A TACIT agreement operates between the Obama administration, the United States corporate media, most progressive U.S. liberals, and the United Nations

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

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

Matrix of Death

A new dossier on the (im)precision of U.S. bombing and the (under)valuation of Afghan lives.

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Understanding Barack Obama

He promises nothing other than what already is in Afghanistan: prolonged low-intensity conflict with endless death and destruction.

At the site of a suicide car bomb explosion in Jalalabad in Afghanistans eastern province of Nangarhar, on May 31.-RAFIQ SHIRZAD/REUTERS

An empty buffer

For the U.S., Afghanistan is a socio-economically irrelevant space to be kept empty through least-cost military means.

An Italian soldier of NATO's International Security Assistance Force near the site of a bomb explosion close to Herat airport, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 21, 2006. The remote-controlled bomb killed four civilians and wounded six people, including a border police commander.-FRAIDOON POOYAA/AP

Relative lethality

The 21st century wars of the U.S. kill large numbers of innocent civilians relative to combatants.

U.S. soldiers guard the site of a suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. military convoy in Kabul on September 8.-PAUL GARWOOD/AP

Suicide car bombs vs `precision' bombs

The United States' bombs that use the latest technology cause far more civilian deaths than the Taliban's suicide car bombs.