karzai

Welcome to the 'karzai' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'karzai'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “karzai”

• Editorial: A Test for President Karzai

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  President Hamid Karzai’s inaugural speech vowed to rein in corruption, but a later speech in the Afghan capital suggested, ominously, that he still does not get it.
  11 hours ago

• Anti-Taliban heros brother targeted

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 570
  Amanda Hodge, South Asia Correspondent SUICIDE bombers struck at the heart of middle-class Kabul yesterday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens near the home of a former vice-president and a hotel popular with Westerners. The blast occurred metres from the Heetal hotel in the diplomatic ...
  20 hours ago

• Afghan dam project in peril

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 622
  The Kajaki Dam project in Southern Afghanistan is a symbol of US involvement in the country going back to the 1950s. In recent years, the project has been a priority for international development efforts, but the Taliban insurgency has put the success of the dam at risk. Washington’s foreign aid agency USAID has now ...
  1 day ago

• Afghan president vows to combat corruption in his government

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Kabul, Dec 15 (DPA) President Hamid Karzai Tuesday vowed to combat widespread corruption in his government at all levels, calling it a menace that has brought shame to the country.Since his re-election last month in polls marred by massive fraud, Karzai has been under mounting pressure from his government’s Western ...
  1 day ago

• Gordon Brown unveils plan for 68-nation conference on Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy among those expected to attend talks Gordon Brown today set out an ambitious plan for a 68-nation conference in London next month on the future of Afghanistan, including plans for two senior co-ordinators to organise the civilian reconstruction of ...
  1 day ago

• America’s Very Canadian Surge In Afghanistan

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 420
  One of the more interesting books I read this year was an abridged version of On War , the early 19 th century classic by the Prussian officer and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz. On War is probably best known these days for the assertion that “war is a mere continuation of policy by other means”, as the ...
  1 day ago

• U.S. Occupation and the Corrupt, Mafia-state of Hamid Karzai By Mike Whitney

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 447
  Dandelion SaladBy Mike WhitneyICHDecember 14, 2009It’s too bad Barack Obama didn’t consult with Malalai Joya before giving his Nobel acceptance speech on Thursday. The ex-Afghan Parliamentarian could have helped the president to see that the ongoing US occupation is damaging to both American and Afghan interests. ...
  1 day ago

• The Final Showdown: Obama Declares War On Pakistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 582
  By Webster G. TarpleyWASHINGTON, DC — Obama’s West Point speech of December 1 represents far more than the obvious brutal escalation in Afghanistan — it is nothing less than a declaration of all-out war by the United States against Pakistan . This is a brand-new war, a much wider war now targeting Pakistan , a ...
  1 day ago

• Obama’s Upsurge: A Reward To Taliban & Al Qaeda

  
  Chowrangi — Authority: 123
  Well I believe that unfairly in the past week, the news center stage was captured by Obama receiv...
  2 days ago

• President Obama’s Afghanistan Policy Speech

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  As President, I have signed a letter of condolence to the family of each American who gives their life in these wars. I have read the letters from the parents and spouses of those who deployed. I visited our courageous wounded warriors at Walter Reed. I’ve traveled to Dover to meet the flag-draped caskets of [...]
  2 days ago

• Brown in Afghanistan vows new push to defeat Taliban

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFP) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed a renewed effort to defeat the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan as he made an unannounced visit to troops in the field Sunday. Brown made the visit two weeks after ordering the deployment of 500 extra British troops to Afghanistan ...
  2 days ago

• Our man Karzai laughs at us

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 144
  In a rare actually good, and not just snarky, column, Maureen Dowd notes how much egg Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai put on U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates face , and by extension, President Barack Obamas. The column goes on to talk about his work in the greater Middle East in general. There is no god and I ...
  2 days ago

• Op-Ed Columnist: A Game That’s Not So Great

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Maureen Dowd
  3 days ago

• Scott Ritter: Our Murderers in the Sky

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  Scott Ritter, Truthdig.com , Dec 12, 2009 War is hell, as the saying goes. Murder, on the other hand, is a crime. In this age of the “long war” pitting the United States against the forces of global terror, it is critical that the American people be able to distinguish between the two. The legitimate ...
  4 days ago

• Scott Ritter: Our Murderers in the Sky

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 438
  Scott Ritter, Truthdig.com , Dec 12, 2009 War is hell, as the saying goes. Murder, on the other hand, is a crime. In this age of the “long war” pitting the United States against the forces of global terror, it is critical that the American people be able to distinguish between the two. The legitimate ...
  4 days ago

• The Pakistan Puzzle

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  In a New York Times op-ed today largely in support of Obamas Afghanistan plan, Nate Fick of the Center for a New American Security writes : Progress depends on two political developments: inducing the administration of President Hamid Karzai to govern effectively, and persuading Pakistan that militant groups ...
  4 days ago

• Video : Karmaloop TV Breaks Down Afghan History, INCREDIBLY WELL

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 131
  Amazing, detailed, informative breakdown of the history of Afghanistan. Oh yea, also the host is hot. “ Our lack of attention again allowed the bearded boys from the Dark Ages to re - assert control and give us a real run for our money . Which they’re still doing today.”
  5 days ago

• Gates Arrives in Iraq on War Zone Tour

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  Defense secretary flew to Iraq from Kabul after wrapping up a two-day visit in Afghanistan, where he met with U.S. troops and Afghan leaders, including President Hamid Karzai.
  6 days ago

• The Cost of War

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  The Lieutenant Colonel in the family will be off to Kabul after Christmas, or off to Baghdad. We won’t be seeing him for quite some time. And he’s been at this a long time – you might remember the election photographs from Mosul and the ducks in the Baghdad Green Zone . That was almost five years ago. He was ...
  6 days ago

• The Anti-Empire Report

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 511
  The Anti-Empire Report December 9th, 2009 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Yeswecanistan All the crying from the left about how Obama “the peace candidate” has now become “a war president” … Whatever are they talking about? Here’s what I wrote in this report in August 2008, during the election ...
  6 days ago

Comments about karzai