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4 hours ago ago from Institute for Policy Studies: Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice, and the Environment
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4 hours ago ago from Institute for Policy Studies: Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice, and the Environment
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Moscow has repeatedly blamed the United States for failing to stabalize Afghanistan, and therefore, boosting the drug trade in Russia. Here's the new plan to fix Afghanistan: Click to enlarge.
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16 hours ago ago from Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog
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17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
President Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan does not pass the tests for war that he offered in his Nobel Lecture. Afghanistan is being preyed upon by a limited insurgency that feeds on Afghanistan's poverty and desperation. Most Afghans do not support the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, but are vulnerable to their pressures. Young unemployed men often join militant factions out of the need to earn a meager income to eat and feed their families. In ...
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23 hours ago ago from U.S. News
NATO: Top US defense official visits Afghanistan KABUL (AP) -- The Pentagon's top military officer visited Afghanistan on Monday just as the first of the 30,000 U.S. reinforcements are starting to deploy to the 8-year-old war. Adm. Mike Mullen arrived in the Afghan capital of Kabul for a series of meetings with the government of President Hamid Karzai, a spokesman for the international coalition force said. The Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
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