America, oil and Afghanistan: “Once the initial shock and hysteria gave way to reason, it became clear that the U.S. was using, in a diabolic way, this human tragedy to further its imperialist hegemony worldwide and to invoke a more draconian domestic rule by curtailing democratic rights and freedom in the name of combating terrorism. The crucial element in this strategy of zeroing in on Osama bin Laden, however, goes largely unnoticed.

Afghanistan occupies the central position in the U.S. strategy for the economic control of the oil and gas resources in the entire Middle East.” opinion piece in The Hindu