Living For Longer

By Lavonne Mireles-ClardyPioneering the future of humanity using Bitcoin-enabled, peer-to-peer transactions is becoming the norm.This radical idea of literally decentralizing transactions is popular, in part, because people can essentially remove all middlemen to practice trade and commerce while supporting an unconventional ideal. This capability is now catching on in Afghanistan.Fereshteh Forough is a founding member of the Women’s Annex Foundation. Her immense passion is to share h [...]

By Claire BernishA breach of international law is just one aspect of the questionable circumstances of a recent raid conducted by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Text in the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between the two countries appears to confirm as much. But that isn’t the only reason for revisiting this highly unusual raid.Signed May 2, 2012, the BSA dictates rules and “laws” of conduct pertaining to U.S. assistance with the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) af [...]

Yeah, this kind of thing sure is hard to figure. Why would not an Afghan farmer with 8 kids to feed not want to grow the usual vegetables and earn maybe $50 a month when he can grow opium poppies for the local warlord with US military connections for $500 a month? Yep, sure beats hell outta me. /sarc/off [...]

Joshua KrauseActivist PostOn February 15th, 1989 Soviet General Boris Gromov stoically walked across the Afghan-Uzbek  border, as camera crews filmed the momentous event. He was the last Soviet officer to leave Afghanistan, marking an official end to a nine-year war that had killed nearly 15,000 soldiers, and had drained the coffers of a crumbling communist regime. While it was a somewhat dignified end to the bloody quagmire, nobody had any illusions as to what this meant for Russia. [...]

(NaturalNews) Despite spending billions to eradicate poppy plants in Afghanistan, which is responsible for nearly three-quarters of the world's heroin, cultivation of the illegal plant has actually reached an "all-time high," according to federal oversight investigators.The U... [...]

[Ed. Note: Meanwhile, heroin importation and use has absolutely skyrocketed, Reaching Epidemic Levels in Suburban America. For this you can thank your criminal government.] by Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept: A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. In a damning repo [...]

Highest-ranking U.S. officer to be killed in combat since 1970. [...]

Quantifying the Effects of Regime Change. [...]

image sourceJon RappoportActivist PostWell, there are several wars inside the war in Afghanistan. Ensuring the flow of opium to the world. Having US bases close to Russia. Protecting and gobbling up vast mineral reserves. Keeping alive the proposed oil pipeline. Still another war is quite different. It’s a test program, through which the US Armed Forces is trying to obtain a biometric record of every human living in Afghanistan. It doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots, to realize the pr [...]

Five American service members were killed in southern Afghanistan when a coalition jet, called in to help ward off a Taliban attack, mistakenly bombed them, an Afghan official said Tuesday. The five were killed Monday night along with an Afghan soldier in Zabul province, said Ghulam Sakhi Roghliwanai, the province’s police chief. According to NATO, […] [...]

Al Qaeda has created a haven in the northeast regions of Kunar and Nuristan. [...]

“We have now been in Afghanistan longer than many Americans expected." [...]

An unidentified Obama administration official exposed the name of the highest-ranking CIA officer in Kabul on Saturday. [...]

Both international and domestic calls are recorded [...]

The Guardian | At least a dozen people killed in a series of attacks. [...]

SSG Joe Biggs & Rob Dew | But there are some new "out of this world" war technologies currently being deployed both here and abroad. [...]

Los Angeles Times | U.S. military fears CIA closing satellite bases in Afghanistan will deprive it of vital intelligence while thousands of American troops remain in the country. [...]

Ulson GunnarActivist PostA recent TIME Magazine article featured the “US NGO” Roots for Peace, which it portrayed as a victim of a regrouping Taliban bent on subjugating a newly “democratized” Afghanistan. This organization, funded by the US State Department and USAID, claims to be turning “battlefields into bountiful orchards.” But a lack of transparency makes it unclear as to just how they are doing this. With USAID using “aid” to usher in the corporate colonization of Afghanis [...]

AP | One other also wounded. [...]

BBC News UK | Territorial Army captain says troops often did not understand the complexities of tribal conflicts. [...]

Fox News | Wartorn country littered with military equipment since the early 80s. [...]

By any reasonable standard, the US-led NATO-powered invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, now entering its 13th year, has been an unmitigated failure. Of course, NATO does not measure the outcome of its mission by reasonable standards. They have their own entirely different yardstick by which they gauge their operations, and by that standard, the Afghan war has been an unqualified success. Find out about NATO's interest in Afghanistan and why they are working with the Taliban to make sure that [...]

Real Clear Politics | Majority believe Obama is detrimental to the military. [...]

Time | For over 11 years, at least one U.S. service member was killed per month. [...]

CNN | Unknown gunmen and Afghan police exchange heavy gunfire. [...]

nzherald.co.nz | Reiterated stance he would not sign pact with United States that would provide for residual force of U.S. troops to remain behind after final withdrawal. [...]

Ernesto Londoño | U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that al-Qaeda’s network in that country is in “survival mode.” [...]

CTV News | Canada had over 40,000 troops in Afghanistan. [...]