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Ashraf Ghani Was Always the Greatest Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan

17Aug

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Ashraf Ghani Was Always the Greatest Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan

By Andrew Korybko All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** He had the right to remain in office as the country’s internationally recognized leader, but clinging to power on this unconvincing so-called “democratic pretext” was really nothing more than a ruse for disguising his personal self-interest and unnecessarily prolonged the war at everyone’s expense. The Afghan peace process ultimately failed because of President Ashraf Ghani and that’s why the Taliban had to resort to military means to end the civil war. The Taliban demanded that he resign as the first...

The Great Washington Ponzi Scheme in Afghanistan Comes Crashing Down

17Aug

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The Great Washington Ponzi Scheme in Afghanistan Comes Crashing Down

By Prof. Juan Cole All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** The United States lost the Afghanistan War a long time ago, as is quickly becoming apparent as the Taliban take city after city. After 2002, it was never clear what the US war aim was. You can’t win a war if you don’t have a clear objective. The war is lost before it begins. The initial US military action against the Taliban government of Mulla Omar in fall, 2001, was based on the refusal of Kabul to hand over Usama Bin Laden and other al-Qaeda terrorists who carried out the September 11 attacks. There is n...

“The War is Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas

17Aug

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“The War is Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas

The War on Afghanistan is a Profit driven "Resource War". By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Author’s Note US and NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 17 years ago in October 2001. It’s has been a continuous war marked by US military occupation. The justification is “counterterrorism”. Afghanistan is defined as a state sponsor of terrorism, allegedly responsible for attacking America on September 11, 2001. The war on Afghanistan continues to be heralded as a war of retribution in response to the 9/11 attacks. US troops are still present and deployed in Afghanistan. The legal argument used by Washington and NATO to invade and occupy Afghanistan under “the doctrine of collective security” was that the September 11 2001 attacks constituted an und...

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Back with a Bang

17Aug

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Back with a Bang

The US 'loss' of Afghanistan is a repositioning and the new mission is not a 'war on terror,' but Russia and China By Pepe Escobar All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** . Wait until the war is overAnd we’re both a little olderThe unknown soldierBreakfast where the news is readTelevision children fedUnborn living, living, deadBullet strikes the helmet’s headAnd it’s all overFor the unknown soldier The Doors, “The Unknown Soldier” In the end, the Saigon moment happened faster than any Western intel “expert” expected. This is one for the annals: four fran...

Afghanistan: To be Integrated into China’s “Belt and Road”

17Aug

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Afghanistan: To be Integrated into China’s “Belt and Road”

A Country Where History Is Marked in Tombstones All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** Another name has been chiseled on the tombstone in the graveyard of empires. The United States of America. 2001-2021. From the swords of Alexander the Great, the British empire, the Russians before and after Lenin, and the US as the newest members of the Great Game, military powers have seen the Afghan sand swallow their ambitions. “Look upon my works ye mighty….’’ Some commentators have said the abandonment of Afghanistan was the worst crisis facing the West since Suez....

Selected Articles: What Is the Future of Afghanistan?

17Aug

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Selected Articles: What Is the Future of Afghanistan?

By Global Research News All Roads Lead to the Battle for Kabul By Pepe Escobar, August 11, 2021 In a coordinated blitzkrieg, the Taliban have subdued no less than six Afghan provincial capitals in only four days. The central administration in Kabul will have a hard time defending its stability in Doha. 20 Years Ago, Prior to 9/11: US Preparations for the Invasion of Afghanistan By Shane Quinn, August 06, 2021 Due to America’s declining oil and natural gas stocks, the top priority for president Bush was to increase US influence over rich fossil fuel sources, constructing pipelines, refineries and other such infrastructure. Afghanistan: A New Pivot in the Greater Middle East? By Peter Koenig and GEOFOR, August 06, 2021 ...

The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade

17Aug

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The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade

Joe Biden's Hidden Agenda in Afghanistan: Sustain the Drug Trade By Prof Michel Chossudovsky The article below was first published in 2005. Below is a detailed update followed by the original 2005 article. Author’s Note and Update The US opioid crisis broadly defined bears a relationship to the export of heroin out of Afghanistan. There were 189,000 heroin users in the US in 2001, before the US-NATO invasion of Afghanistan. By 2016 that number went up to 4,500,000 (2.5 million heroin addicts and 2 million casual users). In 2020, deaths from opioids and drug addiction increased threefold. It’s Big Money for Big Pharma. Graph based on CDC data Source PBS Despite president Biden’s announcement of US troop withdrawals, the Afghan opium tra...

Flawed From the Start, Critics Say Afghan War’s Bitter End for US Was ‘Inevitable’

15Aug

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Flawed From the Start, Critics Say Afghan War’s Bitter End for US Was ‘Inevitable’

In this picture taken on August 13, 2021, Taliban fighters are pictured in a vehicle along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistan's third biggest city, after government forces pulled out the day before following weeks of being under siege. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images). "No one will look back through history with anything but shame and sorrow for the human suffering wrought and the repeated failures of the U.S. war machine." ANDREA GERMANOS As the Taliban on Friday made further gains in control over territory—uprooting thousands of Afghan civilians—longtime critics of the Afghanistan war say the current situation is an "inevitable" outcome of the United States' doomed and deadly two-decade military pursuit that's cost over 2 trillion dollars and untold hu...

US Empire’s Afghan Ponzi Scheme Comes to Ignoble End

15Aug

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US Empire’s Afghan Ponzi Scheme Comes to Ignoble End

Displaced Afghans from the northern provinces are evacuated from a makeshift IDP camp in Share-e-Naw park to various mosques and schools on August 12, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. People displaced by the Taliban advancing are flooding into the Kabul capital to escape the Taliban takeover of their provinces. (Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) You can't win a war if you don't have a clear objective. The war is lost before it begins. JUAN COLE by Informed Comment The United States lost the Afghanistan War a long time ago, as is quickly becoming apparent as the Taliban take city after city. After 2002, it was never clear what the US war aim was. You can't win a war if you don't have a clear objective. The war is lost before it begins. The initial US military actio...

13Aug

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All Roads Lead to the Battle for Kabul

City after city have fallen from government to Taliban control but Afghanistan's end-game is still unclear By Pepe Escobar Global Research, All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** The ever-elusive Afghan “peace” process negotiations re-start this Wednesday in Doha via the extended troika – the US, Russia, China and Pakistan. The contrast with the accumulated facts on the ground could not be starker. In a coordinated blitzkrieg, the Taliban have subdued no less than six Afghan provincial capitals in only four days. The central administration in Kabul w...