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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould are the authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story and Crossing Zero The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire and The Voice,a novel.
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team began working together in 1979 co-producing a documentary for Paul's television show, Watchworks. Called, The Arms Race and the Economy, A Delicate Balance, they found themselves in the midst of a controversy that was to boil over a few months later with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Their acquisition of the first visas to enter Afghanistan granted to an American TV crew in 1981, brought them into the most heated Cold War controversy since Vietnam. But the people inside Soviet-occupied Afghanistan told a very different story from the one being broadcast on the evening news.
Following their news story for the CBS Evening News, they produced a documentary (Afghanistan Between Three Worlds) for PBS and in 1983 they returned to Kabul for ABC Nightline with Harvard Negotiation project director Roger Fisher. Arriving in Kabul that spring they were told that the Russians wanted to go home and negotiate their way out. But the story that President Carter called, "the greatest threat to peace since the second World War" had already been written by America's pundits was not about to change the script.
As the first American journalists to get behind the official propaganda on the war, they not only got a view of an unseen Afghan life, but a revelatory look at how the US defined itself under the veil of superpower confrontation. But as they pursued the reasons behind the propaganda, they were drawn into a story that was growing into mythic dimensions.
It was at the time of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 when they were working on the film version of their experience under contract to Oliver Stone, that they began to piece together the mythic implications of the story. During the research for the screenplay crucial documents were declassified. Over the next decade they trailed a labyrinth of clues to find a likeness in Washington's official policy towards Afghanistan - in the ancient Zoroastrian war of the light against the dark - whose origins began in the region now known as Afghanistan. It was a likeness that grows more visible as America's involvement deepens.
By 1998, as the horrors of the Taliban regime began to grab headlines, they started collaborating with Afghan human rights expert Sima Wali. They contributed to the Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future book project. In 2002 they filmed Wali's first return to Kabul since her exile in 1978. The film they produced about Wali's journey home, The Woman in Exile Returns, gave audiences the chance to discover the message of one of Afghanistan's most articulate voices and her hopes for her people.
In the years since 9/11 much has happened to bring their story into sharp focus. Their experience at combining personal diplomacy with activist journalism could become a model for restoring a healthy and vibrant dialogue to American democracy. Ultimately, Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story lays bare why it was inevitable that the Soviet Union and the U.S. should end up in Afghanistan and what that means to the future of the American emp
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, April 13, 2018 Part 1: It's been done to Russia before but this time will be the last
If Stanley Fischer, a man who helped bring about a de facto criminal-privatization-fraud to post-empire Russia says the U.S. is on a dangerous course, the time has arrived for Americans to ask what role Stanley Fischer played in putting the U.S. on that dangerous course. Unknown to Americans is the blunt force trauma Fischer and the Harvard Project delivered to Russia under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin during the 1990s.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, July 27, 2018 Part 1: How the Neocon dream for everlasting Hegemony turned America into a nightmare
A straight line can be drawn between today's political hysteria and the 1970s era of right-wing Soviet hysteria as Russia stands accused of "meddling" in American democracy. And then there is that hidden "meddler" behind the meddling; Britain. The extent of British meddling in America since the early 20th century would shock even the most devout cheerleaders of ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele and his "dirty dossier".
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 4, 2015 America Pivots to Brzezinski's Delusion of Eurasian Conquest
"We are, and I don't want to sound alarmist but I am alarmed, closer to the actual possibility of war with Russia than we have ever been since the Cuban missile crisis. That's how bad it's been." (Stephen Cohen)
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, May 1, 2017 Part 4 -- The Final Stage of the Machiavellian Elites' Takeover of America
The CIA would come to view the Congress for Cultural Freedom beginning with the 1950 Berlin conference to be a landmark in the Cold War not just for solidifying the CIA's control over the non-Communist left and the West's "free" intellectuals, but for enabling the CIA to secretly disenfranchise Europeans and Americans from their own political culture in such a way they would never really know it.
SHARE Monday, September 4, 2023 THE UN 2024 EQUINOX EARTH DAY EVENT; a tribute to Earth Rights Economics of Justice and Peace
Gifts of nature can be shared. The solution is a finance policy that removes taxes from labor and production and shifts it to unearned income from land and natural resources. Neoliberal economics was created by elites who paid universities to teach two-factor economics, labor and capital, and made land a subset of capital. This intellectual crime obfuscated the teachings of Henry George's economic justice. Let's bring it back.
(23 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 1, 2016 America, an Empire in Twilight
Part I of a series. No matter who is labeled president after the election, the crisis this process has created for most Americans will not be over. It will be like no other moment in all of America's history. Now is the time to look back into the past and connect those events that have led us to this most strange and significant moment. We'll start with the day America's leadership lost all consciousness.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 29, 2018 Part 7: The Coup d'e'tat --
Continuing his coup d'e'tat in Washington, Brzezinski and his military assistant General William Odom proceeded with plans for the radical transformation of America's nuclear doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction -- MAD (directed mainly at the Soviet Union) into one of nuclear "war-fighting" through a series of Presidential Directives.
(21 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 3, 2016 Part IV: America's Late Stage Imperial Dementia:
Dubbed the "Twilight Lords" for their final role as the last doomed, feudal barons of Ireland, the Fitzgeralds' struggle against the Elizabethans offers a window into a thousand year struggle of a European "deep state" that exploded openly in Ireland in the 16th century before spreading to the four corners of the earth through British imperial expansion and now is causing mayhem in Washington.
Series Part IV
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 24, 2018 Part 4: How the Safari Club became the real CIA
The Safari club represented the true essence of what CIA Director Allen Dulles had intended when setting up the Central Intelligence Agency following World War II; an autonomous covert action organization with global reach, beyond the jurisdiction of American democracy and responsible to no one.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 18, 2023 The JFK Assassination--60 years on Nov. 22, 2023: Moving beyond his Death to the Resurrection of JFK's World Peace Plan
We traced our Fitzgerald family history back 1000 years to the end of the Fitzgerald rule in Ireland when they were defeated by the forces of Elizabeth I in 1583; that also marked the beginning of the British Empire. We identified that history as "Mystical Imperialism," a philosophy that rationalized empire by infusing the divine into empire building. We'll present that research at the JFK Assassination Conference on Nov. 17.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Why did Master Spy Robert Moss Secretly become a Dream Coach Guru?
There is no mention on Moss's website that before he turned to dream work he was a prote'ge' of notorious CIA and MI6 operative Brian Crozier. Along with the CIA and MI6, Moss left a high level and successful career as a master propagandist (i.e. an expert in lying) working for the Institute for the Study of Conflict ( ISC) and Forum World Features , a London based CIA propaganda news service which operated from 1965 to 1974.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, August 21, 2017 Part 2: The West is Disintegrating
Democracy and freedom of expression are under attack. There is blood in the streets. How did it get that way? Where did it come from, what are its sources and what continues to drive it? This four-part series will look at the origin of those sources and unlock connections that when understood should open doors of perception that have been locked shut for far too long.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, September 9, 2016 Part I--Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
Looking back on the carnage of the last 15 years it's easy to see the psychological changes in America. What's not easy to see is how a longstanding campaign of covert psychological warfare built up since the early days of World War II had made the slow destruction of American democracy and the ascension of rule by secrecy inevitable, long before the planes ever left the runway on 9/11.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 6, 2018 We're all CIA assets! What can be done, a personal story
In view of current New Cold War plans to mount a full-scale global war against China and Russia, Americans need to look back and reconsider the turning points that brought our country to this crossroads. How did we as Americans come from being so much against war in Vietnam in the 1960s into preparing for a world war against just about everyone on the planet today? The CIA sabotaged the anti-war movement through its music.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 23, 2017 Part 4: Ceaseless Propaganda, Outright Lies and Distorted Facts
Democracy and freedom of expression are under attack. There is blood in the streets. How did it get that way? Where did it come from, what are its sources and what continues to drive it? This four part series will look at the origin of those sources and unlock connections that when understood should open doors of perception that have been locked shut for far too long.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 1, 2016 The End of Illusion for America
Understanding the forces that drive Washington's quest for empire may appear on the surface to be limited to money and power. But when it comes to the ultimate objectives of the so called Anglo/American "deep state" the foundations of today's realities may be better explained by looking into the deep past.
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Part III--Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
The MSM was setting the public up prior to the 1979 Soviet invasion citing Brzezinski predicting they would move towards the Persian Gulf for the oil based on the CIA memo, "The Impending Soviet Oil Crisis," that was propaganda. Brzezinski wanted the Soviets in Afghanistan as part of his plan for the conquest of Eurasia and used psychological warfare to convince Americans that the Soviets wanted world domination with no facts.
(22 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 5, 2022 How the Mysticism of Newgrange Pulled us into its Vortex
I knew that returning to Ireland would complete something I'd started when I'd first visited there back in 1971. But it wasn't until we were directed to Newgrange by another Fitzgerald from the same village as my family on the other side of Ireland did I realize--that something--was far more profound than anything I'd experienced in my lifetime.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 11, 2016 Part II -- Psychological Warfare & the American Mind
America's coordinated use of psychological warfare began in earnest during World War II and has grown and expanded into public relations, advertising, cinema, radio and television, electronic video games and now social media. Its pro-war boosterism extends over sports, religion, education, news and entertainment to form a seamless electronic cocoon-like web.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Part 5: Brzezinski's Safari Club "Friends" Did the Dirty Work Behind the Scenes
The Frankenstein political monster emerging to thwart Dubs' plan for Afghanistan could only have come from Brzezinski's ethnic experiment called the Nationalities Working Group. But the rise of the neoconservatives following the Vietnam War had brought with it an ethnic strategy that put Muslim extremists together with European and Middle Eastern racketeers - fed by a Trotskyist hatred for all things Russian.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 15, 2016 Part IV -- Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
Since World War II, Americans have been lulled into accepting a messianic 19th-century British Imperial agenda. One key British agent in the psychological war for American public opinion was RAF pilot Roald Dahl who, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, playwright Noel Coward and Gallup pollster David Ogilvy, were given free rein to propagandize "the natives" (Americans) through whatever means possible.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, March 17, 2023 1000 Years of Secrets Exposed
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould fascinating conversation that starts with The Norman conquest of England in 1066, traveling up to the rebellious outpost of Ireland, and ends with the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK).
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, September 19, 2016 Part V -- Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
In 1947 the creation of President Truman's covert national security government would transfer of power from the Congress, the courts and the Presidency to a concealed "Trumanite network" of military managers, diplomatic, intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Zbigniew Brzezinski came to power through the "Trumanite network." Ronald Reagan's 1980 election would renew its power and America would never be the same.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 21, 2017 Part 1: Darkness at Noon
Democracy and freedom of expression are under attack. There is blood in the streets. How did it get that way? Where did it come from, what are its sources and what continues to drive it? In this four part series we'll look at the origin of those sources and unlock connections that when understood should open doors of perception that have been locked shut for far too long.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 22, 2018 Part 1: MI6 intelligence has always been an anti-Soviet/Russian "Rumor Factory"
In 1974 Britain's intelligence services plotted the overthrow of their own elected government in London which they had convinced themselves with their own lies had been infiltrated and subverted by KGB agents from Moscow whom they, themselves had invented.
SHARE Saturday, May 6, 2023 *The Economic Justice and World Peace Proposal*
Violence begets violence, war begets more wars. These facts have been known to generations before our time and we should not have to learn this horrible truth again. Events have been forgotten by history and covered up by administrations. Old angers and hatreds have been instilled in new generations. We cannot continue in this manner and survive as a people. We must face the facts and put our minds
to diffusing the crisis.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 15, 2018 PART 2: The post WWII strategy of the neocons has been shaped by Russo phobia against the Soviet Union and now Russia
U.S. support for Israel, its neoconservative backers and its dedicated anti-Russian bias has a long and complicated history dating back before Theodor Herzl's19th century Zionist Project. Zionism was not instilled in American thinking by Jews but by 16th and 17th century British Puritans whose mission was to reestablish an ancient Kingdom of Israel and fulfill biblical prophecy based on the King James Version of the bible.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 7, 2022 The Hegelian Dialectic is a Mental Trap that only leads to Self-annihilation
The system of designed social conflict to break down individual rights was spelled out by Hegel himself when he said: "'...the State' has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State... for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges."
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 3, 2016 Neoconizing the Just War Doctrine in the service of American Empire
PART III:
Join with us as we unravel the de-evolution of rational defense policy and its immersion into the mystical as we explore the radical 1980 re-interpretation of the 4th century Just War Doctrine of the Catholic Church that has gained momentum today as the US confronts the limits of maintaining dominance over the world with a first strike nuclear policy.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 29, 2018 Part 2: The Tragic Imperialist: Brzezinski, Afghanistan and the End of Emperors
No one has ever suggested a privatized agency in the death of Ambassador Dubs. But the Safari Club's anti-Communist agenda came to the White House with Brzezinski in 1977, had been active in Afghanistan for years. If ever there was an opportunity for their 1,500-strong black network of assassins to act on Brzezinski's agenda to lure the Soviets into their own Vietnam, it was at room 117 of the Kabul Hotel on February 14, 1979.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 30, 2023 The Truth about the CIA's Imperial Holy Warriors is hidden in the Mystical
The first thing an academic tells you when you mention the mystical side of Afghanistan is that you shouldn't talk about that. The study of foreign policy cannot be seen as motivated by anything other than rational and objective reasons and measured by the metrics of quantitative analysis. How then to explain 'Wild Bill' Donovan, the first director of the OSS and the father of today's CIA calling his agents Knights Templars?
SHARE Tuesday, August 22, 2017 Part 3: Engineering Public Perception to the Right for the Right
Democracy and freedom of expression are under attack. There is blood in the streets. How did it get that way? Where did it come from, what are its sources and what continues to drive it? This four part series will look at the origin of those sources and unlock connections that when understood should open doors of perception that have been locked shut for far too long.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 14, 2020 'Magical Thinking' has always ruled the US role in Afghanistan
The best way for us to understand Afghanistan is to look at the record of American involvement going back four decades and to look at the record requires a reexamination of President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. From the start, U.S. policy formation surrounding Afghanistan has lived in a realm of magical thinking that has produced nothing but a catastrophe of nightmarish proportions.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 17, 2016 Brzezinski Vision to Lure Soviets into 'Afghan Trap' Is Orlando's Nightmare
In 1977 Afghanistan had no refugees and Brzezinski, at the time, set in motion events that have come full circle, to this tragedy, leaving Afghanistan today with the second-largest refugee population in the world, and an on-going effort to destroy Russia.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 28, 2018 Part 6: The Death of Adolph Dubs - Cui bono? 'To whom is it a benefit?'
The kidnapping and assassination of Adolph Dubs would provide the spark to swing opinion in Washington toward Brzezinski's desire for a more aggressive destabilization of Amin's and the Soviets did not want;government that in turn would lead to exactly what Ambassador Adolph Dubs had died trying to prevent and the Soviets did not want; a Soviet military occupation.
(21 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 21, 2016 Before Prosecuting Iraq War Criminals, US Must Deal With Afghan War Crime
In 1979, before false intelligence was used to justify the Iraq war, a heinous war crime was committed against Afghanistan by Zbigniew Brzezinski. It's not just Brzezinski who is culpable. It was the Washington bureaucracy that enabled Brzezinski to activate his Machiavellian plot of intentionally drawing the Soviets into his "Afghan Trap."
How Washington enabled Brzezinski's plot and why it's still important.
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 13, 2016 The Trump Card is played! Never Underestimate THE FOOL
How the hatred for Catholic Rome in the 14th century would establish a life and death struggle within the European deep-state; and how this conflict would lead to the rise of a crypto-Cathar counter church, whose apocalyptic world-ending goals would complete its cycle on November 22, 1963 in the Anglo/Norman America of the present era.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 5, 2017 What have they done to our fair sister? An Epitaph
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the man who'd sacrificed Sima Wali's Afghanistan to give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam, passed on four months earlier in the same city where Sima lived until her death.If they should meet in the afterlife, one can easily imagine how delightfully uncomfortable that encounter would be for Zbig!
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 30, 2017 Part 3 - How the CIA Created a Fake Western Reality for 'Unconventional Warfare'
In 1950, the CIA helped establish the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an anti-communist advocacy group, that would set the stage for a sophisticated doctrinal campaign to neutralize any political opposition (Communist or not) to Anglo/American culture and make the world safe for the rise of the Machiavellian elite.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 3, 2018 The Khashoggi Gambit
Overthrowing secular regimes and replacing them with Muslim fanatics put Khashoggi squarely in the vanguard of Neoconservative foreign policy and his death at the hands of a Saudi death squad is a blow to their entire agenda. But it should be remembered that their agenda gained prominence in the first place as a result of a not so dissimilar atrocity leveled against an American Ambassador in 1979.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 10, 2022 A Declaration of Human Rights for the 21st century, World Peace
Endless war puts you in a hell of madness from which there is no escape. The madness of war has come full circle and is now in our schools, parks and homes. It was always a part of our nature. We have given in to a part of our nature that should have matured but instead has remained aloof from our humanity. That part of our nature is unlearned and untamed. We are the victims of our own design and therefore we can change it.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, April 28, 2017 Part II - How Neocons Push for War by Cooking the Books
The use of corrupt intelligence to justify endless war today became official in 1976 when C.I.A. Director George Bush created the first Team B, the concept of "competitive analysis" regarding the Soviet threat done by an alternative team based on ideology instead of facts. To understand America's drift into despotism over the last 40 years, we must de-encrypt the evolution of its secret "double government."
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 7, 2017 The New York Times Strikes Out Again on Afghanistan
From 1918 until its demise in 1991, the Russian people at least knew that Pravda (Truth) was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. But what most Americans would be surprised to learn is that The New York Times has been operating for decades as the U.S. government's Pravda without anyone being the wiser.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, October 30, 2020 Our interview about President Carter's true role in starting the longest war in US history
October 7, 2020 was the 19th anniversary of what is described as the longest war in American history. But the real start of the longest US "war" was when President Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski succeeded in drawing the Soviets into the "Afghan Trap" on December 27, 1979. It is the back story leading up to the Soviet invasion that everyone needs to know, especially the pivotal role of President Carter.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 17, 2017 Part I Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate, Abandon hope all ye who enter here -- Dante's Divine Comedy
Before the Tomahawk missiles start flying between Moscow and New York, Americans had better educate themselves fast about the forces and the people who claim that Russia covered up a Syrian government gas attack on its own people. Proof no longer seems to matter in the rush to further transform the world into Dante's vision of Hell.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 25, 2010 Decrypting the Shadow behind Hamid Karzai
To both Ruttig and Rohrabacher, Khalilzad's ultimate crime like the U.S. manipulation of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime in Vietnam was that his corruption of the Karzai regime had created so much internal chaos that no amount of outside effort could undo it. Yet the idea that chaos, as a form of extreme social engineering, may have actually been the plan cannot be ignored.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 11, 2012 A Medieval Nightmare Finds a Home in the American Way of Making War
In a 1972 New Yorker article Senator J. William Fulbright traced the origins of the devastation caused by Vietnam to the intellectual corruption of the Cold War. But his shock was in realizing that the actual thinking behind the Cold War and the Truman Doctrine was not based on facts or logic or even the metrics of modern warfare, but on a medieval ideological methodology that in effect defied reason.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 2, 2016 America, an Empire in Twilight Series Part II
As Trump and Clinton bob and weave and excoriate each other as unfit for the presidency, neither has shown a genuine capacity for leadership or can explain exactly how they'll make the desperately needed course-correction Americans want, once they assume the White House in 2017. How could this have happened?
SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2022 Bhadshah Khan's Afghan World Peace Movement
The strength of Badsher Kahn's Khudai-Khidmatgar and its philosophy challenged more than just the Afghan tribal code of Pashtunwali and the dominance of the British Empire in India. Badsher Khan also challenged the idea expressed by many Western orientalists that his movement was just an aberration.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 21, 2022 Imagine a future based on JFK's Dream of World Peace
Something about America died along with our president on November 22, 1963 that never returned. We decided to find out what that was and discovered myths surrounding the Fitzgerald family's connection to Camelot provided clues. Resurrecting the peaceful world that JFK wanted to create requires imagination. But before restoring JFK's dream we need to know the deeper history connected to the Papacy that led to his assassination.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 13, 2022 The Dark Answers to Imperialism, JFK and Afghanistan are hidden in the Mystical--Two Authors' Journey of Discovery
The first thing an academic tells you when you mention the mystical side of Afghanistan is that you shouldn't talk about that. The study of foreign policy cannot be seen as motivated by anything other than rational and objective reasons and measured by the metrics of quantitative analysis. How then to explain 'Wild Bill' Donovan, the first director of the OSS and the father of today's CIA calling his agents Knights Templars?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 14, 2011 The biggest Jaw-Dropping Journalism Scandal of all?
Without any serious reflection by the media on the consequences of funding and training extremists for the purpose of defeating the Soviet Union, the American media not only missed the deeper story, but ignored where the Afghan story had been corrupted for political purposes.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of lithium?
But the most revealing quote in the Pentagon report wasn't so much that Afghanistan did indeed contain a vast wealth of minerals or even that the U.S. had carelessly overlooked a vast source of wealth for an impoverished nation. No. The key to understanding the report was framed by the reference that "Afghanistan could become the "Saudi Arabia of lithium,'" and Saudi Arabia is where the real story behind the headlines begins.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, February 17, 2023 From the Jerusalem Crusade to the Holy Grail to the death of JFK
The immolation of Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay at the hands of the Pope's Inquisitors would serve as an inspiration for generations to seek revenge on the Roman Church. And so begins the legend that winds its way from Jerusalem to Paris to the Holy Grail, to Rosslyn Chapel and Scottish Rite Freemasonry and from there to the death of JFK.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 America's DNA profile has been all over Afghanistan since 1973
The CIA's secret mission became entangled with Pakistan's support for Afghanistan's small core of foreign-trained right wing Islamic extremists. Thanks to President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, this entanglement blossomed into a marriage following the 1978 Marxist coup and a full-blown commitment to holy war and the Islamization of Pakistan - long before the Soviet invasion of 1979.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 22, 2010 Warlords were Brought into the Afghan Government by the Bush Administration in 2001
According to a March 16 Reuters article by Peter Graff Afghanistan's government "has enacted into law a blanket pardon for war crimes and human rights abuse carried out before 2001." But "this law passed with a two-thirds majority." "Parliament is made up largely of lawmakers from former armed groups, some accused by rights groups and ordinary Afghans of war crimes."
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 14, 2011 America's Financial Armageddon and Afghanistan
Left off the front pages during the recent obsession with the debt crisis, Afghanistan has lurched back onto the scene in ways that are reminiscent of the Soviet collapse of two decades ago. After ten years of war, it seems Washington not only continues to lack a comprehensive understanding of Afghanistan, but it lacks an understanding of its own role in creating both the economic and political catastrophe it now faces.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 29, 2024 Some like it Hot, Some like it too Hot!
Everybody knows the assassination of JFK took the United States off a course towards world peace and cooperation following the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, but how many people know that the assassination of U.S. Ambassador Adolph Dubs on February 14, 1979 ensured that the US would permanently pivot back to the same Apocalyptic course that was inaugurated with the murder of JFK.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 2, 2010 Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Messiah of Darkness
The history of turning warlords like Hekmatyar to the good has consistently proven to be nothing but bad for the Afghan people
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Street Kool-Aid
Had the documents amassed an equal amount of evidence that Iran or Syria were working with Al Qaeda to carry out attacks on American troops in Afghanistan, the bombers would have been warming up on the flight decks by sundown. But when it came to Pakistan, there was only restraint.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 28, 2011 Crossing Bones at Zero Line
Obama has embraced the largely discredited 1992 program for America's global dominance known as the Defense Planning Guidance crafted under another Bonesman, President George Herbert Walker Bush. It was assumed that following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States would rethink the need for war. Instead, the '92 Defense Planning Guidance set the stage for a whole new era of confrontation.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 17, 2010 The Ill-Logic of the U.S. Predator Drone Campaign
"Imagine, for example, that burglars move into a neighborhood. If the police were to start blowing up people's houses from the air, would this convince homeowners to rise up against the burglars? Wouldn't it be more likely to turn the whole population against the police? And if their neighbors wanted to turn the burglars in, how would they do that exactly? Yet this is the same basic logic underlying the drone war."
SHARE Thursday, April 15, 2010 AfghanWarlord Threatens Boston-Area Experts on Afghanistan with Legal Action
"How is it possible that the Obama administration can allow the representative of a world-class terrorist to threaten an American journalist in America with impunity? This illustrates the contempt this warlord has for America's democratic process.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 15, 2011 Mission Accomplished?
For now Washington will bask in the warm glow of triumphalism, just the way it did following the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 6, 2010 Crossing Zero, The Vanishing Point for the American Empire
A funny thing happened to the United States when the Obama administration decided to cross Zero line and bring the Afghan war into Pakistan. Instead of resolution, after nearly two years into the administration's AfPak strategy, it would seem the gap between reality and the Washington beltway has only widened.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Thinking outside the box? No! Throw the Box Away!
Breaking this chain of institutional thinking is essential to solving the Afghan problem. But most suggestions to "think outside the box" aren't really intended to create new thinking as much as they are to try and maintain the same old thinking with a different approach. What is needed now is a wholly different way of thinking and a whole new group to do it.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 27, 2011 A Love Fest In The Hindu Kush
During the 8 years of the Bush administration's "war on terror," Pakistan pretended to be an ally and the U.S. pretended to believe them. Now the U.S. pays for its Cold War policy-blindness and Bush-era delusion with the blood of its soldiers and diplomats as well as its tax dollars to service a hopelessly failed policy and a Pakistani military that acts more like an enemy than an ally.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 25, 2010 What the Afghans Want
Reconciliation itself isn't the problem. Giving reconciled criminals a legitimate place in the Afghan government who are paid by foreign interests, are directed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and have never been held to account for their crimes against the Afghan people is the problem.
SHARE Sunday, June 6, 2010 Thinking the Unthinkable in the Aftermath of Kandahar
The Battle for Kandahar & The "Perceptions" of American Victory
What can the world expect of American policy in the aftermath of what promises to be an even larger opium-inspired tea party in Kandahar? And what happens if the U.S. achieves a military victory, but fails to address the gaping political vacuum necessary to keep the Taliban from returning?