Afghanistan
Grim milestone in Afghanistan
February 26, 2010SAN FRANCISCO - The week beginning Feb. 22 featured commemorations and protests as our nation hit the 1,000 mark in American military deaths from the war and occupation in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan: Is it all about terrorism?
February 8, 2010No region of the world has more strategic value to U.S. transnational corporations and the military industrial complex than the arc stretching from the Middle East to Central and South Asia.
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Blackwater swamp keeps on bubbling
February 2, 2010The Justice Department has begun a criminal fraud investigation of the company, its employees face criminal charges, but it keeps doing its dirty work under a tangle of names.
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World Notes
February 2, 2010In World Notes this week: Canada, South Africa, Dominican Republic, Taiwan, Cuba, Afghanistan.
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Talking with Taliban takes center stage
February 1, 2010Talking with the Taliban emerged as the headline-grabbing themes at two international meetings on Afghanistan last week.
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