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AFGHANISTAN: A New Therapy Battles Soaring Drug Addiction
April 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pavol Stracansky BEIRUT, Apr 5, 2011 (IPS) – A pioneering drug substitution programme in conflict-wracked Afghanistan has been hailed a resounding success as local doctors and international health organisations battle soaring heroin addiction rates and an HIV/AIDS epidemic. Doctors on the programme, which gives patients controlled doses [...]
U.S.: Long-term Afghan Presence Likely to Derail Peace Talks
March 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) – The announcement by U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defence Michele Flournoy in Congressional testimony Mar. 15 that the United States would continue to carry out "counter-terrorism operations" from "joint bases" in Afghanistan well beyond 2014 signaled that President Barack Obama [...]
New Bid to Break Afghanistan Stalemate
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Barbara Slavin WASHINGTON, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – As the Barack Obama administration seeks to limit its involvement in a third Muslim conflict in Libya, efforts are intensifying to help it find a political solution to the longest U.S. war – in Afghanistan. Authors of a new [...]
Bill Would Aid Afghan Women Caught in U.S.-led War
February 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Cléo Fatoorehchi NEW YORK, Feb 22, 2011 (IPS) – As conflict continues to rage in Afghanistan, the U.S. Congress is gearing up to debate a bill that could support the country’s long-oppressed women in their struggle to achieve gender equality, even in the years after the U.S. [...]
Deferring to Petraeus, NIE Failed to Register Taliban Growth
February 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2011 (IPS) – Despite evidence that the Taliban insurgency had grown significantly in 2010, the U.S. intelligence community failed to revise its estimate for Taliban forces as part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan in December. That unusual decision was [...]
New Report Lambasts U.S. Afghanistan Plans
December 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN New Report Lambasts U.S. Afghanistan Plans Afghan President Karzai at NATO Lisbon Summit | Credit: crisisgroup.org By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BRUSSELS (IDN) – Civilian deaths are rising. Half-hearted counter-insurgency efforts have failed to produce results. The Taliban are more active than ever and they still [...]
Afghan Women Demand Liberation, Not Lip Service
October 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28, 2010 (IPS) – Afghanistan will not know peace until women are equal participants in negotiations, stresses a report released Thursday by the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. "We don’t want the world to see us as [...]
AFGHANISTAN: Do Peace Talks Have Traction?
October 23, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Reports over the past 10 days of high-level talks between the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and senior representatives of the Taliban have spurred growing speculation here about whether Washington is looking for a speedy exit to the [...]
AFGHANISTAN-US: Report Shows Drones Strikes Based on Scant Evidence
October 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Oct 18, 2010 (IPS) – New information on the Central Intelligence Agency’s campaign of drone strikes in northwest Pakistan directly contradicts the image the Barack Obama administration and the CIA have sought to establish in the news media of a programme based on highly [...]
