Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 117)
Sam Harris slurs Malala: Famed atheist wrongly co-opts teenager’s views
Murtaza Hussain
With disregard for Malala's faith and actual opinions, the atheist thinker uses her to continue his anti-Muslim war
U.N. tells U.S. to release drone assassination data
Alice Ross
"The single greatest obstacle to an evaluation of the civilian impact of drone strikes is lack of transparency"
“The Fifth Estate”: WikiLeaks as failed bromance
Andrew O'Hehir
Benedict Cumberbatch makes a compelling Julian Assange, but the real WikiLeaks drama gets swamped in triviality
Obama: Dictator and hostage
Natasha Lennard
At once we have an executive "held up" by Congress -- but with unfettered authority over surveillance and drone war
Boehner’s “a disaster,” Cruz an “intelligent fool,” and heroin should be legal: Barney Frank talks to Salon
Josh Eidelson
Former congressman Barney Frank slams ex-colleagues, questions banks' clout, and predicts how the shutdown will end
Malala calls Obama out on drones
Katie McDonough
The administration's use of drones is "fueling terrorism" and killing innocent people, says the 16-year-old actvist
Greed destroyed us all: George W. Bush and the real story of the Great Recession
Richard S. Grossman
Faulty monetary policy and insufficient regulation helped — but old-fashioned avarice really tanked the economy
David Finkel: I like to embed in the story
Alex Halperin
The Pulitzer Prize winner talks to Salon about his new book and the hard lives of soldiers coming home from war
“Captain Phillips,” the shutdown and American nationalism in decline
Andrew O'Hehir
Is Tom Hanks' "Captain Phillips" a paean to red-state nationalism -- or just a casualty of our crazy politics?
War and surveillance have acquired their own etiquette
Tom Engelhardt
A new spin on the advice column
Anniversary of an endless war
Natasha Lennard
It's been 12 years since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, but anniversaries make little sense when wars are boundless
America is facing a hunger crisis
Richard Schiffman
Poverty rates have not gone down and hunger in our country may be at its highest levels since the Great Depression
Tales of a female hitchhiker
Toby Israel
I faced danger at times, but when I hopped into strangers' cars, I was surprised by something else completely
Phony balance, manufactured conflict: The media just confuses the truth
Thomas Patterson
By feasting on controversy and focusing on the trivial, the media misinforms us about policy and misserves us all
The War on Terror, starring an American journalist
David Mizner
For all its merits, the victims shown in "Dirty Wars" never become more than victims. Jeremy Scahill is the star
The Pentagon is turning Italy into a military base
David Vine
Italy is becoming a launch pad for America's wars, thanks to your tax dollars
10 past Republicans who’d never make it in today’s crazy GOP
Alex Henderson
The party of Lincoln has become the party of Ted Cruz
Another war down the memory hole
Ann Jones
For most Americans Afghanistan is a barely remembered nightmare, for Afghanistan it never ends
No one is listening to the world’s only superpower
Dilip Hiro
The greater Middle East has rebuffed Uncle Sam
Obama sounds like Darth Vader!
David Sirota
His latest U.N. speech implies the U.S. is the one dominant power that can "bring order" to the world
8 exceptionally dumb American achievements of the 21st century
Tom Engelhardt
We've got bragging rights on these
Freakish vote breaks partisanship, pits hunger vs. jobs
Bruce Vail
Should U.S. disaster relief require American-grown food? Those with the best intentions may miss the full picture
This is America’s worst regulator (and JPMorgan’s best pal)
David Dayen
Want to know how a megabank like JPMorgan gets away with so much garbage? This obscure regulator will infuriate you
Ten things you should know about the terrorists behind the Kenya mall attack
Associated Press
Understanding the motivations of Al-Shabab
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