AFGHANISTAN

One of the key players in U.S.-led "Soviet-Afghan war" was Osama bin Laden, a Saudi-born millionaire from a wealthy, powerful family with ties to the Saudi royal family. Before becoming America’s “boogeyman”, Osama was put in charge of fundraising for the Mujahideen.
Despite president Trump’s announced US troop withdrawal, the Afghan opium trade continues to flourish. It is protected by US-NATO occupation forces on behalf of a nexus of powerful financial and criminal interests.
Trump calls for escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Why? Is he going after the bad guys, or is it something else? Afghanistan has significant oil, natural gas and strategic raw material resources, not to mention opium, a multibillion dollar industry which feeds America's illegal heroin market.
The insurgents have captured more than half of country; conclaves under peace talks are vaguely underway to negotiate the future fate of Afghanistan; the presidential election is scheduled for April 2019, all of which sets the stage for the US to implement the new giant plans.
British Prime Minister: Afghan army training to be centre of NATO efforts By Global Research, October 10, 2009
After Nobel nod, Obama convenes Afghan war council By Stephen Collinson, October 10, 2009
Massive expansions of US-NATO “counterinsurgency” in Afghanistan By Larry Chin, October 09, 2009
Top U.S. commander in Afghanistan wants 40,000 more troops as minimum By Global Research, October 09, 2009
The Afghan quagmire By Rahimullah Yusufzai, October 06, 2009
Taliban Fighters Attack Outposts, U.S. Troops Killed in Battle By Joshua Partlow, October 05, 2009
Afghanistan: Taleban storm Nato outpost By Global Research, October 05, 2009
Escalation of the War in Afghanistan: McChrystal Must Testify By David Swanson, October 03, 2009
Germany Mulls More Troops For Afghan War: Report By Agence France-Presse, October 01, 2009
If Afghanistan is its test, NATO is failing By John Feffer, October 01, 2009
Mullen wins second term as top U.S. military officer By Thomas Ferraro and Paul Simao, September 27, 2009
Aides: Mullen Likely to Sign Off on Afghanistan Troop Request By Global Research, September 26, 2009
Obama Stuck between Wars on Iraq, Afghanistan By Nicola Nasser, September 26, 2009
McChrystal Troop Request: Between 10,000 and 40,000 More Troops for the Mission in Afghanistan By Luis Martinez, September 26, 2009
Classified McChrystal Report: 500,000 Troops Will Be Required Over Five Years in Afghanistan By Tom Andrews, September 25, 2009
U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan’s History By Rick Rozoff, September 24, 2009
Italy’s Fallen Soldiers By Stephanie Westbrook, September 24, 2009
Escalating the War in Afghanistan: No Good War, No Good Drone By David Swanson, September 22, 2009
Afghanistan: Where Empires Go to Die By Dahr Jamail, September 18, 2009
Bin Laden Family Members Evacuated from US in Wake of the 9/11 Attacks By Robert Bridge, September 17, 2009
Canadian, U.S. troops beef up Afghan mission By Global Research, September 13, 2009
Russian envoy cautions US on Afghan troops surge By Douglas Birch, September 13, 2009
Bruce Cockburn sings for troops in Afghanistan, gets rocket launcher By Bill Graveland, September 12, 2009
Undercounting deaths of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan By Bernd Debusmann, September 12, 2009
Political Debate on Poland’s Future Military Presence in Afghanistan By Global Research, September 12, 2009
‘Taliban hold sway over in 97% of Afghanistan’ By Global Research, September 11, 2009
Escalation of the Afghan War? US-NATO Target Russia, China and Iran By Rick Rozoff, September 10, 2009
A Fresh Approach in Afghanistan: An End to War? By Ramzy Baroud, September 10, 2009
German Troops in Afghanistan By Global Research, September 10, 2009
US will not abandon Afghanistan and Pakistan again, says Gates By Global Research, September 10, 2009
Troops ransack Afghan hospital: Swedish charity By Global Research, September 08, 2009
NATO Airstrikes: Stench of Death Hangs over Afghan Riverbank By Ameen Salarzai, September 08, 2009
Giving Democracy the Finger – the failure of the Afghan elections By Lesley Docksey, September 08, 2009
150 civilians dead in air raid: Villagers By Abdul Matin Sarfaraz, September 07, 2009
In the wake of the Afghan Election: NATO Intensifies Military Deployments, Carnage By Rick Rozoff, September 06, 2009
America is a “Failed Democracy”: Its People want Peace, and its Elected Officials make War By Sherwood Ross, September 05, 2009
Canada to set off bombs in Washington By Global Research, September 05, 2009
Gates opens door to possible Afghan troop increase By Adam Entous, September 05, 2009
Confronting Russia? U.S. Marines In The Caucasus By Rick Rozoff, September 04, 2009
We Need a Special Prosecutor for Blackwater and Other CIA “Contractors” By Jeremy Scahill, September 02, 2009
Afghan Election’s Outcome Doesn’t Matter By Murray Dobbin, August 29, 2009
Afghans “Sandwiched” between Taliban and US-NATO backed Warlords By Julien Mercille, August 22, 2009
Drones and Democracy in Afghanistan By Ramzy Baroud, August 21, 2009
Losing the Plot – Britain’s losses in Afghanistan By Lesley Docksey, August 17, 2009
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know By Jean MacKenzie, August 17, 2009
Afghan War: NATO Builds History’s First Global Army By Rick Rozoff, August 09, 2009
Depleted Uranium Ammunition in Afghan War: New Evidence By Global Research, August 05, 2009
The Winners Are Grinners: US Uses Afghan War To Besiege Russia At Ferocious Pace By Alfred Ross, July 31, 2009
Afghan War: US, NATO Troops Near 100,000 And Climbing By Global Research, July 31, 2009
VIDEO: “Operation in Afghanistan is rooted in Israel” By Karen Kwiatkowski, July 22, 2009
Afghanistan War Resister to “Put the War on Trial” By Dahr Jamail, July 14, 2009
Military Escalation: From Afghanistan To the Caspian Sea and Central Asia By Rick Rozoff, July 10, 2009
Russia to grant U.S. Afghan supply route By Global Research, July 09, 2009
100,000 Western Troops: US Shifts Counterinsurgency To Asia By Global Research, July 03, 2009
Afghanistan’s Operation Phoenix By Stephen Lendman, June 17, 2009
Obama’s Afghan War By Marc W. Herold, June 12, 2009
Afghanistan’s parliament call for the prosecution of “Criminal Foreign Troops” By Global Research, June 06, 2009
Abandon the Battlefield. “There’s No Way I’m Going to Deploy to Afghanistan” By Dahr Jamail, May 26, 2009
Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice By Prof. James Petras, May 17, 2009
Crushing Democracy in Afghanistan By John W. Warnock, May 13, 2009
VIDEO: US Troops Urged to Share Faith in Afghanistan By Global Research, May 11, 2009
Obama allocates more war funds for Afghanistan than Iraq By Global Research, May 08, 2009
Afghanistan: Heroin-ravaged State By Prof Peter Dale Scott, May 08, 2009
Obama’s First 100 Days: The Afghan War is becoming America’s War By Marc W. Herold, May 01, 2009
Eurasian “Diplomacy”: Russia and China confront the US and NATO over Afghanistan By Eric Walberg, April 22, 2009
The Status of Women in Karzai’s Afghanistan By John W. Warnock, April 14, 2009
The Political Economy of Taliban Terror in Swat Valley By Tom Burghardt, April 08, 2009
Your war questions answered: Why is Obama getting a pass on Afghanistan troop increases? By Andisheh Nouraee, April 03, 2009
Obama’s Disastrous Afghan Plan By Ann Robertson, April 01, 2009
Perpetuating Afghanistan’s Cycle of Violence By Scott Taylor, April 01, 2009
Military Escalation and Obama’s “War on Terrorism” By Tom Burghardt, March 29, 2009
Obama to Bring More Mercenaries to Afghanistan — Sound Familiar? By Jim Hightower, March 28, 2009
Afghanistan: US, NATO Wage World’s Largest and Longest War By Rick Rozoff, March 26, 2009
US will appoint Afghan ‘prime minister’ to bypass Hamid Karzai By Julian Borger and Ewan MacAskill, March 23, 2009
Afghanistan and Iraq: War Crimes Against Children ascribed to former President Bush By Sherwood Ross, March 21, 2009
Bush War Crimes are Jeopardizing Public Health in Afghanistan and Iraq By Sherwood Ross, March 16, 2009
Afghanistan is not a Military Problem By Michael Carmichael, March 16, 2009
Afghanistan: A Surge towards Disaster By Anthony Fenton, March 16, 2009
America’s Search for the “Good Taliban” By Tom Burghardt, March 15, 2009
Afghanistan: NATO Faces Deadliest Year Ever By Global Research, March 09, 2009