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President Obama's Political Sepulcher

Bruce Fein | Posted 09.04.2011

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Bruce Fein

President Barack Obama's political sepulcher will be war. His extinguishment as a political comet could have been avoided if he had respected the exclusive constitutional responsibility of Congress to commence war.

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Revealed: Elaborate Ruse Behind Massive Bank Fraud In Afghanistan

The Washington Post | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Bank Fraud, Sherkhan Farnood, Karzai, Afghanistan, Scheme, Mahmoud Karzai, Kabul, Afghan Officials, Khaililullah Frouzi, Kabul Bank, Arrested, World News

The top two officials of Kabul Bank used fake names, forged documents, fictitious companies and secret records as part of an elaborate ruse to funnel ...

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The U.S. Has No Idea How Much Taxpayer Money It's Burning on the Afghanistan Bonfire

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sigar, Afghanistan, Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Kabul Bank, Rethink Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Karzai, Afghanistan War, World News
Derrick Crowe

The military push enabled by the escalations in Afghanistan isn't working, and the ally we're relying on is a corrupt fraud, and the spending we're doing to support that ally is being handed out with little accountability.

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See No Evil: Movies, Inquiry Avoid Exposing Fraud While Banksters Go Free

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ben Bernanke, Kabul Bank, Ben Affleck, Oliver Stone, Fraud. Banksters, Financial Crisis Inqury Commission, Business News
Danny Schechter

Ben Affleck's next movie, The Town, is set in Charlestown, Mass, known for the battle of Bunker Hill and dubbed in the past by tabloid TV as "hell's h...

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Security in Afghanistan Crumbles as Counterinsurgency Fails

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pashtuns, Hamid Karzai, Corruption, White House, Anti-War, Coin, Obama, Failure, Peace, Afghanistan War, Brave New Foundation, War in Afghanistan, Army, Military, Rethink Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghan National Army, Strategy Review, Kabul Bank, Counterinsurgency, Kabulbank, World News
Derrick Crowe

As President Obama's strategy review for Afghanistan commences, let's hope he's balancing the information coming to him from his happy-talking generals with some independent news reading of his own.

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Scarborough, Rendell: Invest Afghan War Money In U.S.

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War Cost, Afghan War, Infrastructure Spending, Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe, Unemployment, US Military, Ed Rendell, Afghanistan, Kabul Bank, Hamid Karzai, Video, Politics News

Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor and conservative "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough agree: America cannot afford to spend $2 billion per week in Af...

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Karzai Family Ties Shielded Flailing Afghan Bank

New York Times | ADAM B. ELLICK and DEXTER FILKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan Bank, Karzai Corruption, Karzai Family, Afghanistan, Karzai Bank, Kabul Bank, Karzai Kabul Bank, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In early 2009, as President Hamid Karzai scanned the landscape for potential partners to run in his re-election bid, he was appr...

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Afghan Bank Bailout: U.S. Works To Prop Up Kabul Bank To Prevent Crisis

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan Bank, Afghan Bank Bailout, Kabul Bank, Afghanistan, US Afghan Bank Bailout, Afghan War, Afghanistan War, World News

***UPDATE*** The Times has updated their story with comments from U.S. Treasury officials insisting that no American taxpayer money will be used to r...

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Kabul Bank Bailout? Mahmoud Karzai, President's Brother, Calls For U.S. To Shore Up Bank

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Bailout, Afghanistan, Omar Zakhilwal, Kabul Bank, Mahmoud Karzai, Run on Banks, Treasury, Bank Run, General Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, US Treasury, Dubai, David Petraeus, World News

Hamid Karzai's older brother wants the U.S. to guarantee deposits at Afghanistan's largest bank to stop a developing bank run fueled by fears of fraud...

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Afghan Authorities Take Over Biggest Bank To Avoid Meltdown

Washington Post | Joshua Partlow and Andrew Higgins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Central Bank, Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan, Afpak, Kabul Bank, World News

Afghanistan's Central Bank has taken control of the country's biggest and most politically potent private bank and ordered its chairman to hand over $...

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6 Guards Beheaded In Afghan Bank Heist

AP | DEB RIECHMANN and AMIR SHAH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Afpak, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Bank Heist, Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan Beheading, Kabul Bank, Mazar-E-Sharif, Nato, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have issued a new code of conduct ordering fighters to protect civilians – as long as they don't side wit...

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