El Observador Incisivo El Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de España ha rechazado la apelación del juez Baltasar Garzón del auto de Luciano Varela que denegó…
Véja os artigos siguintes: “Usina nuclear para submarino avança em SP, ” DCI (Diario Comercial e Tecnico), 30 de agosto, 2010 Sergio Lyra Dantas, Vitoria…
For an overview of the polling in the afghan National Assembly elections on Saturday, September 18, see “Afghans vote for parliament amid threats, attacks,” DAWN…
Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief for Asia Times Online, reports that back-channel conversations with the Taliban during Ramadan, orchestrated by the Pakistani military,…
To the Observer, the idea of trying to make Karzai a more central player in efforts to root out corruption in his own government sounds like giving Al Capone a more central role in cleaning up Chicago.
Iranian Help on Afghanistan? In an interesting column in the Washington Post, David Ignatius reports on the possibilities for engaging with Iran to gain its…
For updates on the elections, see Afghan2010.com Reading the newspapers and watching television news reports in the United States, one would be hard pressed to…
The truth behind the incoherence in American policy in Afghanistan is beginning to come out. The CIA has been paying many top Afghan officials for…
Personal Takes I had a picture of Alexander Dubček on my wall when I was a student studying international law. He represented the hope of…
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) traveled to Kabul on August 17 to deliver the Obama administration’s warning to Hamid Karzai that he must clean up corruption…
Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out…
UPDATE The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed suit against the Treasury Department for rules that require them to…
Originally Published March 26, 2010 In his first press conference, Staffan de Mistura, the new Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG), described what he…
Much of the attention in the press following the release by Wikileaks of over 90,000 classified documents from U.S. military operations and intelligence in Afghanistan…
Once again the Magician has waived his green cape and dazzled the international donors who are paying for the war they are waging in Afghanistan…
Updated To find our way in Afghanistan, we need to find our compass. Our moral compass. General David Petraeus, according to reports, is pushing for…
The Taliban is now targeting USAID civilian contractors in Afghanistan, confirming a shift in strategy suggested by earlier attacks. For details of the attack, see…
The replacement of General Stanley McChrystal by General David Petraeus signals an important change in the military leadership in Afghanistan. However, with commentators suggesting that…
El Observador Incisivo El escrito del abogado solicita el archivo de la causa por los crímenes del franquismo, como pide la fiscalía El abogado de…
The newspapers will be filled for days with information and views regarding Obama’s June 23 firing of General Stanley McChrystal and his replacement by General…
