Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 114)
Still with the Russians? “Jack Ryan” channels Reagan-era paranoia
Daniel Carlson
The first post-9/11 "Ryan" flick skirts the "War on Terror" and keeps us fighting an old reliable Cold War enemy
Right-wing winter: Why conservative movies clean up in January
Noah Gittell
While liberals catch up on Oscar hopefuls, movies like "Lone Survivor" rake in conservative dollars
“Lone Survivor”: A fact check
Jean MacKenzie
The book upon which the Mark Wahlberg blockbuster is based betrays confusion about America's role in Afghanistan
Scahill on Oscar nod: We promised to bring drone victims’ stories to the world
Natasha Lennard
The "Dirty Wars" journalist and his director react to their Oscar nomination
America’s secret military is a massive ticking time bomb
Nick Turse
U.S. special forces are deployed in 134 countries around the world — providing 134 separate chances for disaster
Glenn Beck attacks film critic who didn’t like “Lone Survivor” — and so do the trolls
Daniel D'Addario
Beck's fans threaten a critic who called Mark Wahlberg vehicle anti-Muslim and jingoistic
“Lone Survivor”: A pro-war propaganda surprise hit
Andrew O'Hehir
Mark Wahlberg kills Taliban by the dozens in Hollywood's first 2014 smash, a shameless war-porn spectacle
GOP hypocrites neglect poor — while drafting secret pro-military loophole
David Dayen
Buried deep into the budget bill being voted on today is a provision that tells you everything about our government
The next attack: “An explosive-stuffed model airplane guided by GPS”
Patrick Coffey
America has smart bombs and drones. Others could create something as deadly with a remote-controlled car and camera
4 biggest threats to global peace: Guess who’s No. 1?
Sarah Wolfe
Nope, it's not China, Iran or Israel: The U.S. is the country viewed most negatively, according to a global survey
Most important political news this week: New report kills GOP’s radical agenda
Brian Beutler
Christie and the bridge is big. But Obamacare driving down healthcare inflation is even bigger. Here's why
The rise of the military’s secret military
Nick Turse
They're called Special Operation Forces — and they're everywhere
Robert Gates in new memoir: Obama doubted Afghanistan surge would work
Elias Isquith
The former secretary of defense describes an ambivalent president and a clueless vice president
The shadow government’s secret religion
Tom Engelhardt
Why the national security state that emerged after 9/11 is a warrior religion dedicated to perpetual conflict
From Nixon to Paul Ryan: How right-wing radicals deceive America
Paul Rosenberg
By shifting the spectrum of debate, here's how America's rightward march has been normalized throughout history
10 striking images of graffiti in Kandahar
Nash Riggins
On cement blockades throughout Kandahar, members of the military defy orders to make art
Susan Sontag was right: War photography can anesthetize
CHLOE PANTAZI
A troubling new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art throws into question the medium's very purpose
Three detainees to be deferred from Gitmo to Slovakia
Associated Press
Uighar detainees, determined some time ago to have no terror ties, had been held for 12 years at Gitmo
The year in misery: 2013
Natasha Lennard
Totalized surveillance, civilian drone deaths, war crimes, racist policing and more. Happy Holidays, America!
The media’s deplorable record on drones
Tom Engelhardt
The NYPost jokes about an airstrike that wiped out a wedding — but the rest of the news media ain't much better
The future isn’t unisex: Reform’s big gender blind spot
Soraya Chemaly
From disaster relief to inequality, world leaders often act like women don't exist. There's a better way
“The Great Dying” redux? Shocking parallels between ancient mass extinction and climate change
Dahr Jamail
Between 150 and 200 species are going extinct daily, a pace 1,000 times greater than the "natural" rate
American drone suspected in wedding-day massacre
Jack Serle
Deadliest strike of the year "left charred bodies and burnt-out cars on the road"
The Pentagon’s $365 million mandate to indoctrinate our children
Ann Jones
How the Army is training 14-year-olds to <3 miltarism
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