The tag 'Afghanistan' is associated with 6 posts.

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

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a 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 ⋅ Post a comment

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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