by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post
Tuesday, 22. December 2009
The Rallying Cry for an Arms Buildup & to End Public Debate about American Foreign Policy on Afghanistan
As the first journalists to enter Kabul in 1981 for CBS News following the expulsion of the Western media the previous year, we continue to be amazed at how the American disinformation campaign between Hollywood, Washington and Wall Street built around the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan lives on. We’ve seen this pattern from the media again and again. It was particularly disturbing to read Ken Herman’s December 18 interview, Charlie Wilson pessimistic about future of Afghanistan, in the AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN filled with CIA disinformation. The secret campaign was activated before the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan to sell the American people on financing the coming Muslim holy war against the Soviet Union.
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see
World’s Sole Military Superpower’s 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars by Rick Rozoff
September 11, 2001: America and NATO Declare War on Afghanistan by Michel Chossudovsky
Afghanistan on Dandelion Salad
from the archives:
Bill Moyers Journal: Charlie Wilson
Imperialist Propaganda – Second thoughts on Charlie Wilson’s War By Chalmers Johnson
Dandelion Salad 
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