The tag 'Afghanistan' is associated with 10 posts.

Thompson Agonistes: The Dissent and Subsequent Disappearance of A CIA Officer

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: Younger readers/listeners might be puz­zled by dis­cus­sion of a “lib­eral” CIA offi­cer. Before the trans­for­ma­tion of the CIA into a huge para­mil­i­tary force, Jim Thomp­son worked for the Agency and its World War II pre­de­ces­sor the Office of Strate­gic Ser­vices. Imbued with the ideals of the Roo­sevelt admin­is­tra­tions and the war against fascism, [...]

Islamist Elements Behind Violence, Kyrgystan Government Says

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: As noted pre­vi­ously, the towns of Osh and Jalal-Abad in Kyr­gys­tan, in addi­tion to being flash­points of lethal Uzbek/Kyrgyz eth­nic ten­sions, are epi­cen­ters of activ­ity for Hizb Ut-Tahrir, a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood affil­i­ate.
The gov­ern­ment of Kyr­gyzs­tan is now claim­ing that Islamist ele­ments, con­spir­ing with the fam­ily of the deposed leader, pre­cip­i­tated the vio­lence. In FTR [...]

Russia Alleges that NATO Aiding Afghan Heroin Production

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: the refusal by the Marines to destroy the crop should not be sur­pris­ing in and of itself. The impov­er­ished Afghan farm­ers depend on it for income and in the “bat­tle for hearts and minds,” that is an impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion. Con­sid­er­ing that other options are avail­able, such as pur­chas­ing the opium to make med­ical morphine, [...]

NATO Refuses Russian Request to Destroy Afghan Opium Fields

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 4, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Com­ment: In light of the mas­sive vol­ume of broad­casts avail­able on this site about intel­li­gence com­mu­nity involve­ment in drug traf­fick­ing, this should come as no sur­prise.
“NATO Rejects Russia’s Demand to Destroy Afghan Poppy Fields”; New Europe; 3/26/2010.
NATO and Rus­sia clashed on 24 March over how to tackle the drug prob­lem in Afghanistan, where West­ern nations [...]

FTR #680 Interview [#2] with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 18, 2009 ⋅ One comment

U.S. Cold War pol­icy pro­duces slaugh­ter of mod­er­ates in Afghanistan; Pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions drive U.S. pol­icy in that coun­try and led to U.S. sup­port of Tal­iban; Tal­iban cre­ated by U.S. “ally” Pakistan.

FTR #678 Interview (#1) with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 4, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

U.S. lured the Sovi­ets into Afghanistan; George H.W. Bush ana­lysts pro­vide ide­o­log­i­cal base for the actions; Zbig­niew Brzezin­ski imple­ments the plan; Rea­gan cold war­riors reject Soviet with­drawal plan.

Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story

Posted by ftrreading ⋅ August 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Despite dec­la­ra­tions made by some in power, the war in Afghanistan is far from over — in fact, the tur­bu­lence is escalating.

License to Kill

Posted by ftrreading ⋅ March 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Hired Guns in the War On Ter­ror, by Robert Young Pelton

Dollars For Terror

Posted by ftrreading ⋅ June 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The U.S. and Islam, by Richard Labeviere

The Politics of Heroin

Posted by ftrreading ⋅ June 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

CIA Com­plic­ity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy

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