The March 11 Massacre of the 17 Afghan citizens, including at least nine children and four women, raises many fundamental issues about the nature of a colonial war, the practices of a colonial army engaged in a prolonged (eleven-year) occupation and the character of an imperial state as it commits... » read this article

Yesterday we reported that U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales now has a legal team to defend him in the United States against widely published charges that he alone killed the 16 Afghan civilians including 9 children and 3 women in their sleep on March 11, 2012. Later last night we received... » read this article

The news just keeps getting worse in Afghanistan for the United States. Brave New Foundation's Rethink Afghanistan project has warned for years that the premises of a counterinsurgency there were unrealistic and unworkable, and the ability of a handful of bad actors to completely seize control of the narrative with... » read this article

The Afghan Army Chief of Staff says the slaughter of 16 civilians, including nine children, in Kandahar province was a premeditated assassination carried out by a number of servicemen, RIA Novosti reports, citing Afghan media. Lt. General Sher Mohammad Karimi’s harsh condemnation of the March 11 mass murder flies in... » read this article

To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting -- and the killing?  Are the exits finally coming into view? Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you... » read this article

I left Guantanamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier -- shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was... » read this article

Editor's Note: We first published this on Axis of Logic on April 21, 2011. Watch this - and then let HRW (Human Rights Watch) talk to us about the rights of humans. - lmb     21 April 2011 Tens of thousands are protesting in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.... » read this article

Photographer Monika Bulaj shares powerful, intimate images of Afghanistan -- of home life, of ritual, of men and women. Behind the headlines, what does the world truly know about this place? Source: Ted.com... » read this article

The Asia Times article below is strewn with US political babble, the US State Department struggling to make complicated deals with people who hate them for obvious good reasons. The author, Amir Mir does a good job of trying to make some sense out of it. Why is the US... » read this article

Editor's Note: T.J. Coles' new essay, What Are We Doing in Afghanistan? is a follow-up to his October 14 article, What Have We Done to Afghanistan? Reviewing a Decade of Anglo-American Occupation.  He reveals the regression of the west from civilization itself in lust for petroleum and power. His highly... » read this article

“Many times you have fallen into the snare of greed. And given your throat up to be cut.” Rumi Britain’s fourth occupation of Afghanistan in two hundred years began in September 2001, when US Special Forces and friends, presumably Britain’s SAS, illegally invaded the country without UN knowledge or approval.1... » read this article

February 2012 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the US Space Command’s declaration of war on the world, namely its quest to achieve Full Spectrum Dominance of land, sea, air and outer space by 2020, “to close the ever-widening gap between diminishing resources and increasing military commitments”1. Commenting on the Space... » read this article

It didn’t begin with the Haqqanis, or the attack on Kabul. It didn’t even begin with Operation Geronimo–it actually began when President Obama made the blunder of not visiting Pakistan and then going to Delhi. Trying to hide the failure of his administration to sign the Nuclear 123 deal he... » read this article

Editor's update: Axis of Logic reader and friend, "The Dream," found the first copy of this powerful John Pilger film documentary for publication on Axis of Logic. After only one month, the film was removed by our source, Vimeo in an act of brazen censorship (see copy of the removed... » read this article

Maybe you thought we’d get out of Afghanistan this very year, the drawdown date President Obama set as he surged U.S. troops into the country in December 2009; or maybe you thought the Obama administration’s target for withdrawal might be the last day of 2014, that date certain of recent... » read this article

The Biggest one day loss to American soldiers in Afghanistan as dozens of elite forces have been killed when their helicopter was shot down by the Taliban. 2011 has seen an increase in civilian deaths in Afghanistan as well as US-led troops. If the U-S has not been able to... » read this article

The corporate media has gone to extraordinary lengths to put the best possible face on yesterday's killing of 30 U.S. Navy Seals and 8 U.S.-trained Karzai soldiers near Kabul when their Chinook helicopter came under fire by Afghanistan Defense Forces* (ADF). Much of the media is using the word "crash," referring to the... » read this article

“You’ve thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled”. Bob Dylan, Masters of War. The use of unmanned drones by the U.S. to attack civilian population with Hellfire missiles is a form of state terrorism. It is designed not to assassinate individuals (extrajudicial killing), but to instil fear and... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Yeah, I know (sigh), it's just that old, has-been hippie music again, Woodstock and times past. But when many hear it today they hear Vietnam all over again in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Palestine and whoever is next in Washington's crosshairs. The question is whether or not new... » read this article

Editor's Note: Compare this report by Eric Walberg with the Reuter's report republished earlier today on Axis of Logic: REUTERS - President Karzai's younger brother killed in Kandahar - Axis of Logic Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering... » read this article