Gareth Porter has an excellent piece up on IPS , " Fiction of Marja as City Was U.S. Information War ," in which he breaks down the media disinformation campaign on the size of Marja: Marja is not a city or even a real town, but either a ...  more>>

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March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Afghanistan tomorrow for talks with his Afghan counterpart, ...  more>>

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Western leaders fear Hamid Karzai will reject findings of Electoral Fraud and refuse to hold a run-off. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP Britain and the United St...  more>>

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"Today, I'm here to listen to you and hear your problems," Karzai told about 300 men who sat shoulder to shoulder on the floor of a mosque in central Marjah. Thousands of U.S., ...  more>>

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But the visit made clear how much further there was to go if the people of Marja were ever to throw their loyalty behind the Afghan government. On his visit to Marja, Mr. Karzai tried his best to play to the crowd, and...  more>>

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