John Pilger on August 21, 2010 2 Comments
Wikileaks are the most important truthsayers of our time
Resistance
The real victims of the Afghan War
Recep Korkut — August 16, 2010 2 Comments
The only way to stop the heavy migration from Afghanistan to the West is to support the establishment of peace and order in that country. If resources for development and social consensus are not provided, any peace that is obtained will be very fragile and the country will not be completely free of the risk of disintegration
Editor's Pick, war
Disbelieving the Wiki leak
Mahir Ali — July 27, 2010 1 Comment
-What makes this intriguing is the implication that some of the WikiLeaks information was new even to the White House. That’s unlikely, of course. And the message to Pakistan was supplemented by a decidedly more strident diatribe against the leaks, on the basis that they could compromise military operations – even though there is no reason to doubt that WikiLeaks and the three publications involved took care not to publicize any material that could endanger lives
Media
Freedom of Information is the Big Lie
Robert Webb — July 27, 2010 0 Comments
Thanks to Wikileaks, the power of the internet and newspapers like the Guardian, we now have some kind of truth about the war in Afghanistan. A truth that, if we gave it more than a moment’s thought in our busy lives, we probably could have guessed for ourselves.
Editor's Pick, Media
Gen McChrystal: Death Squad poster boy
David Edwards — July 1, 2010 1 Comment
“It is a bitter irony of source journalism that the most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the ‘best’ sources.” (Quoted Sharon Beder, Global Spin, Green Books, 1997, p.199)
Politics
Outrage at Afghan Boy’s Murder for “Collaboration”
Mohammad Ilyas Dayee — June 24, 2010 2 Comments
Lynching of eight-year-old in Helmand universally condemned, may turn tide of opinion against Taliban.
Editor's Pick, Politics
Clare Short interview on Blair, Brown, Iraq and Afghanistan
Matt Kennard — April 9, 2010 0 Comments
“I think Blair is a peculiar kind of man. I think he is fundamentally a presentational person and he is superb at presentation and he’s very careful always to use language which leaves plenty of wriggle room and doesn’t tie him down too firmly and that’s what he is good at”
Editor's Pick, Politics
Holiday in Afghanistan
Jessica Mudditt — September 13, 2009 6 Comments
In the winter of 2009 an Australian primary school teacher dared to visit Afghanistan as a tourist. In this interview, Nick Buckley, 29, provides a glimpse of the other side of Afghanistan – a country still celebrating lavish weddings, and where men get drunk and watch Chuck Norris films.
Editor's Pick, Politics
The natives have let us down again: Afghanistan policy continues to fail
Richard Seymour — February 10, 2009 2 Comments
The Obama administration have gone ‘realist’ in Afghanistan, with their rhetoric shorn of paeans to democracy. Now it is just a strategic war to maintain control of the region.