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.
China’s Tibet Health Success versus Passive Mass Murder of Afghan Women and Children by US Alliance By Gideon Polya, January 07, 2018
Pakistan’s Asymmetrical Response to Trump Is a Clever Way to Flip the Tables on Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko, January 06, 2018
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to be Extended to Afghanistan By Abdus Sattar Ghazali, December 30, 2017
ISIS-Daesh Is on the Rise in Afghanistan. Why? Who’s Supporting Them? Afghanistan’s Rare Earth Elements By Sami Karimi, December 18, 2017
Bombing to Victory in Afghanistan? By Brian Cloughley, December 08, 2017
US Reduces Transparency While Escalating Air War in Afghanistan By The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, December 02, 2017
Turning the Corner in Afghanistan By Moon of Alabama, November 29, 2017
US Bombing of Afghanistan Up by 300 Percent By Bill Van Auken, November 23, 2017
America’s Renegade Warfare. Is the U.S. Guilty of Genocide By Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 18, 2017
Into the Afghan Abyss Again By Prof Alfred McCoy, November 14, 2017
The US Military Bases Abroad Are Disrupting the World Order By Sami Karimi, November 10, 2017
Playing Games with War Deaths. How Many People have been Killed in US Wars? By Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 10, 2017
US Strikes Soaring in Afghanistan, Along with Civilian Deaths By Jason Ditz, November 09, 2017
Afghanistan: Impunity is Another US Lethal Weapon that Kills Silently By Sami Karimi, November 09, 2017
Tillerson Creeps in to Afghanistan under Cover of Darkness and News Black Out By Brian Cloughley, November 06, 2017
Blaming the Afghan War Failure on — Russia By Jonathan Marshall, November 01, 2017
America Willing to Negotiate with the Taliban? By Stephen Lendman, October 25, 2017
Phoenix 2.0 – CIA’s Vietnam Terror Unleashed Upon Afghanistan By Moon of Alabama, October 25, 2017
George W. Bush Receives a Character Award at West Point: Duty, Honor, Atrocity By Erik Edstrom, October 24, 2017
The U.S. Bombed Afghanistan More in September than Any Month Since 2010, but the “Death Toll” Remains Hidden By Emran Feroz, October 18, 2017
US Military Dropped 751 Bombs in Afghanistan in September By Press TV, October 10, 2017
Afghanistan: US Occupiers and NATO, Their Puppets, the Taliban and ISIS Are the Cause of the Current Disaster! By RAWA, October 10, 2017
Longest War in US History Turns 16 Today – Thousands Dead, No End in Sight & It’s Getting Worse By Rachel Blevins, October 09, 2017
Afghanistan: US Sponsored Al Qaeda “Freedom Fighters” Were Used to Railroad the Formation of a Secular Socialist Government By Gaither Stewart, October 09, 2017
United States Imperialism Continues War in Afghanistan and the Destabilization of Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 04, 2017
Video: Afghanistan: Fierce Clashes and Suicide Bombings By South Front, October 01, 2017
Trump Keeps Eyes on Afghan Mineral Prize in Meeting with President Ghani By RT News, September 25, 2017
US to Plunder Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches By Stephen Lendman, September 24, 2017
Afghanistan’s Opium Trade: A Free Market of Racketeers By Franz J. Marty, September 22, 2017
Video: Taliban Attacks NATO Convoy By South Front, September 17, 2017
The People of Afghanistan Have Had Truly Enough of Western Imperialist Barbarism By Andre Vltchek and Alessandro Bianchi, September 12, 2017
Continuity as Change: President Trump, His Predecessors and the Primacy of U.S. Imperial Policy By Dr. Can Erimtan, September 08, 2017
The US-Pakistan Standoff: Trump’s “Anti-Pakistan Strategy” is Directed against China and Russia By Sami Karimi, September 07, 2017
Endless Regional Chaos: American Presence in Afghanistan By Federico Pieraccini, September 05, 2017
Taliban Leader Claims that Group Controls Over Half of Afghanistan. “Taliban Not Connected to Terrorist Attacks” By Islamic World News, September 03, 2017
Video: Never Ending War in Afghanistan. Trump’s New Strategy Leads to Further Escalation of Conflict By South Front, September 02, 2017
Donald Trump Crosses China’s Red Line in Afghanistan Just as Obama Crossed Russia’s in Syria and Ukraine By Adam Garrie, August 31, 2017
The Social Media Is a Weapon to Control Minds of Poor Nations By Sami Karimi, August 31, 2017
Afghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline By Pepe Escobar, August 29, 2017
Watch: Brave Congressman Explains How US Keeps Afghan Heroin Trade Alive at Your Expense By Matt Agorist, August 28, 2017
The Lies of 9/11 “Miracle Workers”. Bush and Cheney, How They Ruined America and the World By Edward Curtin, August 28, 2017
As US Empire Fails, Trump Enters a Quagmire By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, August 28, 2017
Video: Afghanistan – Where Empires Die By Adam Garrie and Nedka Babliku, August 27, 2017
Trump: Afghanistan First By Tony Cartalucci, August 27, 2017
Reporting on Trump’s Afghan Escalation Omits Dead Afghan Civilians By Adam Johnson, August 24, 2017
US Threatens Pakistan as Part of New Afghan War Drive. Islamabad Seeks Beijing’s Support By Keith Jones, August 24, 2017
How the US Military Brass Talked Another President Into a Losing Strategy By Mark Perry, August 23, 2017
The Long, Long Story: “Principled Realism”, Trump and Afghanistan By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 23, 2017
Trump Continues Failed Military Policy in South Central Asia By Abayomi Azikiwe, August 23, 2017
Blackwater Founder Seeks Privatization of Afghan War By Ulson Gunnar, August 23, 2017
Black Alliance for Peace Calls on the U.S. to End Its War in Afghanistan By Black Alliance for Peace, August 23, 2017
Trump’s Betrayals, Military Escalation in Afghanistan By Karin Brothers, August 23, 2017
NATO-CIA-Pentagon: Junction of the Real Druglords and Warlords. By Sibel Edmonds, August 22, 2017
Trump’s Afghan Strategy: Forever War and Occupation By Stephen Lendman, August 22, 2017
Five Major Flaws in Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy that He Does Not Want You to Know About By Ken Klippenstein, August 22, 2017
“Narco-State Afghanistan” Leads to Heroin Addiction in the USA By Dr. Meryl Nass, August 22, 2017
Heroin Dealer in Chief. Afghanistan, Source of 90% of The World’s Heroin By William Edstrom, August 22, 2017
Afghanistan – Trump to Announce Four More One-Year Wars By Moon of Alabama, August 22, 2017
Will Blackwater Replace the World’s Most Powerful Military to Win Afghan War? By Sami Karimi, August 19, 2017
Afghanistan: Meet the Amputees Fighting America’s Longest War By Abigail Fielding-Smith, August 16, 2017
The United States Should Exit Afghanistan By Adeyinka Makinde, August 12, 2017
Afghanistan: Why Counterterrorism Combat Has Failed By Sami Karimi, August 09, 2017
“Mother of All Bombs”: The Dark Sides of Afghanistan’s MOAB Tragedy are Unfolding By Sami Karimi, August 03, 2017
Afghanistan Is Right Here! Lies, Myths and Legends By Andre Vltchek, August 02, 2017
The Tweet that Is Shaking the War Party By David Stockman, August 02, 2017
CNN Crashes and Burns with ‘Exclusive’ Report on Russia Arming the Taliban By Veterans Info Source, July 31, 2017
Colonialism and Greed: Trump Considers Afghan War Expansion to Exploit Minerals By Jake Johnson, July 28, 2017
When Will America’s Crime Spree in Afghanistan End? “Punitive Raids” under the Cloak of “Humanitarian” Warfare By Jean Périer, July 24, 2017
Empire of Destruction By Tom Engelhardt, July 23, 2017
Afghanistan: A Morally Corrupting War By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, July 21, 2017
The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 17, 2017
Brzezinski Wanted NATO to Become the “Hub of a Globe-Spanning Web” of Security Pacts By Steven MacMillan, July 17, 2017
The US State of War—July 2017. 84,000 Bombs since 2014, and Counting… By Nicolas J. S. Davies, July 10, 2017
Afghanistan, The Longest War in US History: Forgotten, But Not Gone By Miles Elliott, July 06, 2017
India-Pakistan Proxy War in Afghanistan Is a Media Fabrication By Sami Karimi, July 01, 2017
The Pan-Islamic Option – The West’s Part in the Creation and Development of “Islamist Terrorism” By Adeyinka Makinde, June 26, 2017
Afghanistan: The World’s Largest Opium Producer By Stephen Lendman, June 25, 2017
Afghanistan and the Curse of Natural Resources: The Trump Administration Continues America’s Longest War By Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 23, 2017
US to Send Up to 5,000 More Troops to Afghanistan By Jordan Shilton, June 19, 2017
The War in Afghanistan Is a Racket By Moon of Alabama, June 15, 2017