Issues and Analysis

AFGHANISTAN: The Pentagon Spent Nearly $43 Million On A Gas Station In Afghanistan

Nov 3, 2015

huffingtonpost.com, by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, original What we'd call Corruption if someone else did it. WASHINGTON -- The Department of Defense...

AFGHANISTAN: Cashing In on the Decision to Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

Nov 2, 2015

foreignpolicy.com, Oct. 30, 2015, original In August, the nation’s top military officer came to President Barack Obama and bluntly asked him to...

HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: Could a Superfood Help Save Haiti’s Forests? [No!]

Nov 2, 2015

takepart.com, Oct. 30, 2015, original Haiti is the most impoverished country in the northern hemisphere, and trees, or the lack thereof, are part of...

HAITI: Election – The Polls, Candidates, and Issues in the Presidential Election

Oct 22, 2015

as-coa.org, original With Haiti’s plethora of presidential candidates, polls show some aspirants rising to the top, though the frontrunner remains...

AFGHANISTAN: Pakistan and Afghanistan: The new Great Game

Oct 22, 2015

bbc.com, original By Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC News, 22 October 2015 The Peshawar school attack was widely condemned. Image copyright EPA Ever...

AFGHANISTAN, DEVELOPMENT: The Next Refugee Crisis: Afghanistan

Oct 22, 2015

New York Times, OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By MICHAEL KUGELMAN, OCTOBER 21, 2015 WASHINGTON — With the war in Afghanistan heating up, thousands of Afghan...

HAITI – Pre-election violence flaring up in Haiti slum – Cite Soleil

Oct 20, 2015

By DAVID McFADDEN and EVENS SANON, Associated Press, 10/19/2015 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Deadly pre-election violence has flared up in and...

HAITI, DEVELOPMENT – To find success in Haiti’s recovery, go local

Sep 22, 2015

devex.com, by Catherine Cheney, 21 September 2015, original A roadside market in Haiti. Photo by: Catherine Cheney / DevexThe release of former...

AFGHANISTAN, DEVELOPMENT: Afghanistan’s Other Security Threat: Brain Drain

Sep 8, 2015

m.voanews.com, original, by Hasib Danish Alikozai, September 7, 2015 Each day an estimated 7,000 Afghans apply for passports Afghans do not apply...

AFGHANISTAN: When It Comes to Afghanistan, America Should Ditch Pakistan for Iran

Sep 8, 2015

nationalinterest.org, by C. Christine Fair, September 7, 2015 "The fact is, none of Iran’s actions hold a candle to the things the Pakistanis have...

HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: America’s Neo-Colonial Mandate: The Clinton Plan for Haiti.

Sep 8, 2015

globalresearch.ca, by Dady Chery, September 07, 2015, original When news of Haiti died down in the mainstream media two months after the earthquake,...