The Propagandist welcomes our latest contributing writer, Melissa Roddy. In her first article, the author of “Ariana” and director and producer of “Conflict of Interest” explores the lies that the Pakistani ISI has propagated about Afghanistan in order to assist in its imperialistic designs. (This article first appeared in The Huffington Post).
Withdrawal NATO forces from Afghanistan, before the country is strong enough to defend itself, would not result in peace for the Afghan people. It would result in a repeat of the horrors of the 1990s. That's when, according to Human Rights Watch, over 400,000 Afghans were killed.
This past April, Benjamin Barber published an editorial entitled 15 Reasons Why We Can't Win In Afghanistan. I want to thank him for neatly putting in one convenient place so many of the common distortions and lies propagated by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (“ISI”) to encourage NATO to abandon the Afghan people, who have suffered grievously for well over 30 years at the hands of various ISI sponsored criminals. Below in italics are his jingoistic “15 Reasons,” thoroughly refuted, point...More >>
American lust for cheap natural resources. This is wrong on sooo many levels. Let’s review a few.
