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December 20, 2009 03:06PM EST
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The Indypendent Issue 144: Quagmire, Full Speed Ahead
By The Indypendent Staff
President Barack Obama has given the green light to go full speed ahead in Afghanistan. What is he really getting himself into?
Anand Gopal, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, reports on the quagmire that is the Afghan War.
Gopal writes, “Every time the Americans come into an area the bombing increases. After Obama sent 21,000 troops earlier this year, there was a 60 percent increase in violence over last year, which was already at record levels.
Despite the fact that every time the troops go into an area the violence increases and Pashtuns don’t want the Americans there, Obama is still putting more troops into the situation.
What’s the end game in all of this if they just keep throwing troops into it and the Pashtuns keep fighting back?”
For more, see the link to “The Fog of War” below.
Also included in this issue of the Indypendent: a photo essay on the resistance movement in Honduras and what comes next; why the homeless may soon be paying rent again in New York City shelters; and reviews of David Graeber’s Direct Action: An Ethnography and David and Rebecca Solnit’s The Battle of the Story of the “Battle of Seattle.”
Atlantic Yards Takes the Court || Opinion: Standing Up to Eminent Theft || One People, One Net || Message to Homeless: Pay to Stay || “A Warning to Lawyers” Feds Nix Bail, Jail Radical Attorney || After 25 Years, Justice is Due || Taking a Stand Against Afghan War || Indypendent Takes Home Prizes || Community Calendar || Reader Comments || Honduras’ Crossroads || The Fog of War || Clock is Ticking in Copenhagen || Theory into Action: A Review of David Graeber’s Direct Action || Correcting the Record: A Review of the Battle of the Story of the “Battle of Seattle” || Pimp My Planet: A Conversation with the Director of Owning the Weather || Love in the Time of Trotsky
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