• ROAR: “The Soviet Union wanted to stop Americans in Afghanistan” As Russia marks the 30th anniversary of the introduction of Soviet troops into Afghanistan, most observers say the decision was a huge mistake.
On December 27, 1979, Soviet special force officers...
• End Of The Year: U.S. Recruits Worldwide For Afghan War The first of 33,000 more U.S. troops have arrived in Afghanistan for a Christmas surge and they will soon be joined by as many as 10,000 additional non-American troops serving under NATO in the...
• The "Omaha Two:" Victimized by COINTELPRO Injustice After a two week April 1971 trial and four days of deliberation, an 11 white/one black member jury convicted Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice) and Edward Poindexter for the bombing murder of...
• US special operations troops conducted cross-border raids into Pakistan US ground attacks reported in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken (WSWS) -- Amid a deepening political crisis in Pakistan and growing popular unrest over US missile strikes and mercenaries, it has been...
• China Secures Gas Supply From Turkmenistan: Who’s the True Winner? (The Intelligence Daily) -- On December 14, 2009, an inauguration took place that deserves more attention than it received because it marks an economic power shift to the benefit of three Central...
• Peak oil and the psychology of work
(The Oil Drum) -- The following is a guest post from Vinay Kumar, who lives in the small coastal town in Southern India. Vinay has a Phd in Neuroscience from M.I.T. and a M.S. in Electrical...
• Letting the Beast Out of the (Corporatist) Bottle: Obama Channels Bush on Bioweapons (The Intelligence Daily) -- The Obama administration's recent declaration on bioweapons would simply be another run-of-the-mill example of our "change" president's duplicity were it not such an...
• World’s Sole Military Superpower’s 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars (The Intelligence Daily) -- With a census of slightly over 300 million in a world of almost seven billion people, the U.S. accounts for over 40 percent of officially acknowledged worldwide government...
• The Week the IAEA Applied a Nuclear Double Standard (The Intelligence Daily) -- In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and...
• Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure (Part I) (The Intelligence Daily) -- Promising change after eight George Bush and Republican dominated years, Barack Obama won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 years along with congressional...
• Yemen: Pentagon’s War On The Arabian Peninsula (The Intelligence Daily) -- Yemen will become a battleground for a proxy war between the United States and Saudi Arabia – whose state-to-state relations are among the strongest and most durable...
• US Army Human Terrain System Giving Birth? (The Intelligence Daily) -- Just when it seemed that the US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) could not provide any more drama/distractions, on October 20th, in the District of Columbia...
• Russia, NATO and Afghanistan: High stakes Great Game (The Intelligence Daily) -- US President Barack Obama's now expanding war against the Taliban is garnering support from liberals and neocons alike, from leaders around the world, even from Russia....
• Major Powers Follow Different Paths to Same Energy Security End Game (The Intelligence Daily) -- China’s completion of an historic natural gas pipeline with Kazakhstan bypassing Russia this week tightens the Asian behemoth’s grip on energy resources needed...