Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 114)
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
Guns in America after Newtown, by the numbers
John Light, Lauren Feeney, Karin Kamp
There have been 26 school shootings since Sandy Hook, and more than 30,000 have died by way of gun violence
Class war: America’s longest running conflict
Beverly Gologorsky
Vietnam and Iraq wars have come and gone, but battle lines are still drawn in neighborhoods like the South Bronx
The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela
Jean MacKenzie
The recently deceased South African leader is revered worldwide. But until 2008, he was on a terrorist watch list
War from afar: How the Pentagon fell in love with drones
Patrick Coffey
Unmanned aerial vehicles and smart bombs are the quintessential weapons of our age. And not just for Americans
CIA’s disastrous “Bourne” strategy
Pratap Chatterjee
The agency decided that there was no aspect of secret war which couldn’t be corporatized
GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter: Nuke Iran!
Elias Isquith
California Republican Duncan Hunter says that if the U.S. goes to war with Iran, it should use "tactical" nukes
New York Times’ blind spot on Clinton and race
Falguni A. Sheth
The real reasons the power couple needs to repair relations with African-Americans are beyond the paper of record
Bones, fobbits and green beans: The definitive glossary of modern U.S. military slang
Ben Brody
The past 12 years at war in Iraq and Afghanistan have given rise to an expansive (and amazing) new vocabulary
Report: Afghanistan, Somalia and North Korea most corrupt
Hamna Zubair
The U.S. had a middling score on the annual ranking by NGO Transparency International
Rising number of drone killings raises questions about Obama’s rules for use
Jack Serle
The number of deaths has risen in Yemen and Pakistan in the six months since the president imposed constraints
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