this is a series of reports and documentation based on a leak of some 90,000 records that detail activity in the afghanistan war. it is a co-production of the guardian, wikileaks, der speigel and the ny times.
here's the link to the main page:
Afghanistan: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk
here's an article introducing the series:
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation | World news | The Guardian
there's alot to read here, so with the collective's indulgence what i propose is that the thread develop as folk have a chance to read the material and process it.
suffice it to say that this dissolves entirely the sanitized, managed image of the afghanistan war that's been manufactured by the pentagon's department of marketing war.
sometimes it seems that we've become so passive about problematic information that we forget it's there, forget it's the case, forget altogether that we are being sold war like its a fucking product. it was the case with the bush people. it's still the case with the obama administration.
i think this leak is great.
but i'm only starting to burrow into the material.