US Militarism
Following attack on army headquarters
Pakistan vows to mount new military offensive
By Keith Jones, October 12, 2009
Pakistan’s army was forced to storm a section of its own national headquarters complex to put an end to a day-long assault and hostage-taking by unidentified anti-government insurgents.
The Nobel War Prize
By Bill Van Auken, October 10, 2009
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, an American president who is presiding over two wars and preparing to escalate the US intervention in Afghanistan, has provoked astonishment arou...
US Afghanistan commander requested as many as 60,000 more soldiers
By Tom Eley, October 10, 2009
The top-end request for an increase in US troop levels in Afghanistan presented to President Obama by Gen. Stanley McChrystal is substantially larger than the 40,000 previously reported, according to ...
Obama rules out troop drawdown in Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 8, 2009
President Barack Obama will not consider any reduction in the US military commitment in Afghanistan, White House and congressional officials declared after a three-hour meeting at the White House on T...
Eight years after invasion
Washington faces deepening debacle in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, October 7, 2009
Eight years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, the Obama White House sand the Pentagon are engaged in a heated debate over whether to send another 40,000 troops in an attempt to salvage an interven...
The Australian Labor Party and the war in Afghanistan
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), October 7, 2009
Since its election in November 2007, the Rudd Labor government has escalated Australian military involvement in the Afghan conflict. Just as Afghanistan is now referred to as Obama’s war, so it has ...
Heavy US troop losses in insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan
By Barry Grey, October 5, 2009
The United States military suffered its worst single-engagement losses in more than a year on Saturday, when several hundred insurgents attacked a remote outpost in northeastern Afghanistan, killing e...
US faces worsening military situation in Afghanistan
By James Cogan, October 3, 2009
The anti-occupation insurgency has spread from the southern provinces that border Pakistan to the capital Kabul and northern provinces.
General McChrystal publicly campaigns for Afghanistan “surge”
By Bill Van Auken, October 3, 2009
With his appearance Thursday before a British think tank, Gen. Stanley McChrystal intensified a public campaign for an escalation of the US war in Afghanistan.
Imperialist interests drive US focus on Iran, Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 2, 2009
For three decades, under Democratic and Republican administrations, American imperialism has plunged ever more deeply into the Middle East and the region west, south and east of the Caspian Sea.
US continues to pressure Iran after Geneva talks
By Peter Symonds, October 2, 2009
Following international talks in Geneva, President Obama has again warned Iran that it faces “increased pressure” if it fails to take “swift action” to meet its nuclear obligations.
UN official fired over criticisms of Afghan election fraud
By Joe Kishore, October 2, 2009
Peter Galbraith, the second-ranking official in the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA), and the agency’s top-ranking US official, was dismissed over his criticisms of the Augus...
