Is peace in Afghanistan at hand?
The Guardian's Jon Boone writes from Kabul:Taliban leaders to be offered exile under Afghanistan peace planKABUL, May 5 - Top Taliban leaders could be offered exile outside Afghanistan if they agree to...
View ArticleTaliban flex muscle amid U.S. troop surge
The recent Taliban-claimed attack in Kabul that claimed the life of a Canadian Forces colonel, and which the National Post says marks a "new turn" in the war, was quickly followed by a Taliban attack...
View ArticleRemote control civilian killers
The New York Times' Dexter Filkins relates a glimpse of the sanitized butchery in the State-side control rooms for the drone war. It seems that drone operators watching computer screens a half a world...
View ArticleMilitias: NATO's proxy forces
As the nearly nine-year war in Afghanistan has progressed, it has undergone a sometimes shifting development. In previous years, we saw a steady rise in U.S. (and British and French) air attacks...
View ArticleKandahar hostile to foreign troops
One of the frequently recurring themes of this blog has been the unreported current of Afghan public opinion which sees the NATO/US mission in their country as an unwanted occupation. This current is...
View ArticleU.S. troops kill Afghan civilians 'chosen randomly'
One American soldier based out of Fort Lewis in Washington state has been arrested while others are under investigation for the alleged murder of civilians in Kandahar province earlier this year. All...
View ArticleThe Taliban's counter-surge
With Obama's troop surge now half a year old, we can begin to see its effects on the Afghan Taliban. A couple of items in this week's news reveal a bolstered, rather than cowed, insurgency.From the...
View ArticleYour guide to WikiLeaks' Afghan war logs
On Monday, as most readers are probably aware, WikiLeaks released an enormous trove of U.S. military reports from Afghanistan. First, the local angle: There is some Canadian content, though very...
View ArticlePetraeus' first move: Proxy forces
Longtime readers of this blog may remember that a couple of years ago, I was regularly running long compilations of civilian deaths at the hands of foreign forces (see, for example, here and here)....
View ArticleThe Afghan anti-war movement grows
Coverage of Afghanistan's burgeoning anti-war movement is sadly quite scarce, though we have seen in this space some of the more interesting reporting (see here for example). Lately, however, there...
View ArticleSecret 'kill team' killed civilians for sport
This past spring, revelations surfaced of war crimes committed by soldiers based out of Fort Hood in Washington State. Details have been somewhat sketchy until now. The Guardian's Chris McGreal reports...
View ArticleAfghan protesters burn NATO base
Over the past several days, protests in Afghanistan reportedly stemming from threats to burn copies of the Koran in the U.S. have met with armed police reactions which have resulted in injuries and at...
View ArticleAfghans don't trust Canadian forces
Canadian journalist Brian Hutchinson has reported from Afghanistan on a number of occasions since 2006. On returning recently to the country, he penned an interesting assessment of the situation on the...
View ArticleSyria: A primer
The uprising in Bashar al-Assad's Syria, now over seven weeks old, reached a turning point on Monday, April 25 when Syrian army units including tanks entered the rebellious town of Dera'a in the...
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Film review: The Carbon Rush
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 The Carbon Rush is an intelligent and relentlessly critical look at an under-reported aspect of the earth's environmental problems. ,Ask your average movie-goer what a...
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