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    September 11th Didn't Change the World. September 12th Did
    September 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    It wasn’t the events of September 11th that changed the world, but the events of September 12th and beyond, when the Bush administration took the world to war in response; that changed the world, and continues to threaten U.S. and global security, and shred U.S. democracy.

    Staying in Afghanistan: Unending occupation
    August 2011
    Ross Eventon

    While the US focuses on consolidating its permanent military presence in Afghanistan, designed to guard and exploit Central Asian energy reserves, its earlier rational "to fight terrorism" is a faded memory. Afghanis, meanwhile, continue to lose their lives and humanitarian conditions worsen.

    The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
    August 2011
    Walden Bello

    Events in Libya and Syria have again brought the legitimacy of armed humanitarian intervention and so-called “responsibility to protect” into question.

    The Afghanistan War in the Mirror of the Tet Offensive
    August 2011
    Richard Falk

    U.S. foreign policy still fails to incorporate the lessons learned from the Tet Offensive. The refusal to admit goals weren't achieved in Afghanistan is frustrating to say the least.

    Victory in Afghanistan
    August 2011
    Ross Eventon

    Debate over the 10-year-plus war in Afghanistan tends to focus on how and when it "can be won," obscuring the fundamental question of whether it was morally acceptable in the first place. Now as the US gets closer to consolidating its imperial presence in the region for decades to come, the...

    Obama offers token troop withdrawals in Afghanistan while maintaining "war on terror” mindset
    June 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    President Obama passed up an opportunity to end the war in Afghanistan and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people.

    The Emerging Geo-Strategic Landscape in Central Asia
    June 2011
    Ross Eventon

    Recent developments in Afghanistan suggest the New Great Game is intensifying in Central Asia.

    India and Pakistan's hope after Osama
    May 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    Bin Laden's demise may mark a turning point in the relationship between India and Pakistan.

    Justice or Vengeance: lessons from Bin Laden's death
    May 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    Vengeance may have been wreaked on the infamous Al Qaeda leader, but as long as deadly U.S. wars continue in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and beyond, justice has not been done.

    Video: The Zone of Turbulence: Afghanistan
    January 2011
    Praful Bidwai
     Michael Warschawski, Director of the Alternative Information Centre, Jerusalem

    Afghanistan is a classic instance of the political and military mess that empires leave behind.

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