The Long Intended Chaos According to news reports, the Obama administration is once again reevaluating how to deal with Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai out…
The upcoming campaign for the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar will be the crucial test for the United States’ military and the Obama…
The history of turning warlords like Hekmatyar to the good has consistently proven to be nothing but bad for the Afghan people…
The President’s speech is history now. Al Qaeda is still the objective and General Stanley McChrystal will get 30,000 more troops and…
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould discuss the United States’ outmoded thinking on Afghanisan, what needs to be understood about the relationship between…
We went to Washington to help launch the Afghan American Women’s Association established in honor of a lifetime of humanitarian achievements by…
For decades, the American news media by and large have been simplistic and misleading in reporting U.S. relations toward Afghanistan, write Paul…
Now officially in its ninth year since the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. should have little reason to recount, in Chalmers Johnson’s…
The Afghan election results are finally in and, to no one’s surprise, they have inflamed a crisis of credibility. Afghanistan’s latest effort…
Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald are the authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story (City Lights Books 2009). Their websites are www.invisiblehistory.com…
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