McClatchy Video reveals the evil that thrives behind our war effort in Afghanistan

[jonathan_seer]

It's pathetic what the corrupt Afghanistan government gets away with, what we allow because they are our ally.

Rarely though does such a clear indisputable example of what the evil that shelters under the US Flag of War, and it's not hyperbole to call what you see in this video "evil."

Even rarer is a reporter brave enough to cover such a story outside the confines of the "embedding" now the rule for reporters covering the war zones.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/14/103393/afghan-business-model-connections.html

I also included the opening lines of the story, because it sets the reader up well for what to expect in the video.

KARKAR COAL MINE, Afghanistan — Shovel-wielding miners in rags and plastic shoes, some with the protruding ribs and work-ravaged pallor of labor camp prisoners, toil deep inside this remote northern mountain, harvesting coal for some of the country's most powerful businessmen.

An aside separate from the above. The McClatchy newspaper group is the most progressive chain in the nation when it comes to reporting.

Few know this, because it lacks a big marque newspaper in the major media centers.

They were the ones who did the huge expose on Wall Street that bigger chains did their best to hide.

They should have been the choice of Wiki Leaks to show the American people the truth.

To be sure I am talking about the "national reporting" shared among the newspapers. I am not talking about any one paper in the chain which have a broad range of ideologies.

The mother company though, it's reporting is astoundingly progressive vs. a vs. any other national media newspaper chain. It's unfortunate more of us don't realize our biggest media ally is hidden in the shadow of the mainstream big papers like the NY Times.

[Luminous Animal]

1. I just clicked like on FB.

Hopefully, daily updates will remind me to click on their link. It really is a good news organization.

[EFerrari]

2. After we invade Afghanistan in search of one man after Taliban offered to turn him over

for trial to a third party, wreak havoc on their people, re-arrange their rocks with our bombs, occupy their country and prop up a puppet government for our own purposes, we have no business pointing fingers, not even at Hamid Karzai. He's our totally corrupt asshole.

[jonathan_seer]

3. that was the point of the story

the fingers inevitably point to our effort.

Unlike most media there is NO effort made to make our effort sound innocent and pure, and blame them only.

It reports in detail the facts with video. Only someone blind and deaf could believe that if we weren't there it would be the same.