Tag: Afghanistan

[2009] How the US Funds the Taliban

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How the US Funds the Taliban
With Pentagon cash, contractors bribe insurgents not to attack supply lines for US troops

Welcome to the wartime contracting bazaar in Afghanistan. It is a virtual carnival of improbable characters and shady connections, with former CIA officials and ex-military officers joining hands with former Taliban and mujahedeen to collect US government funds in the name of the war effort.

With Fear and Favor: The Russophobia of ‘The New York Times’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

With Fear and Favor: The Russophobia of ‘The New York Times’

After World War II, it was under Sulzberger that the Times first cultivated a close relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency. In exchange for special briefings of its correspondents by Allen Dulles and others at the CIA, the Times helped to hide and justify covert interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, and elsewhere that had disastrous consequences. As the young historian David P. Hadley has shown, the CIA did not control the Times; instead, there was a “friendly confluence” of interests (or, one might say, collusion).