Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 133)
I was a teenage conservative
Steve Erickson
Right-wing politics offered its own form of rebellion in the 1960s. Later, I realized I was only betraying myself
Don’t hold your breath for bilateral discussions with Iran
Pepe Escobar
Between pressures from Israel, the Pentagon and Washington elites, the nation will likely remain Obama's top threat
Pentagon begins planning for massive budget cuts
Lolita C. Baldor, Donna Cassata
The Defense Department is preparing for the $500 billion in cuts that will take place without a budget deal
Blackwater still making major deals with U.S. in Afghanistan
Natasha Lennard
The contractors, now named Academi, own and operate U.S. Commandos' new base
Senate passes $631 billion defense bill
Donna Cassata
The legislation authorizes money for weapons, aircraft and ships, as well as a pay raise for military personnel
Tehran says it has material evidence of U.S. drone capture
Associated Press
U.S. Navy says all drones in the region are accounted for, but Iran says it will release proof
Retired generals urge Obama to keep Gitmo promise
Natasha Lennard
In a letter to the president, 27 former military leaders call for renewed efforts to close the facility
Majority of homeless Iraq and Afghanistan vets have PTSD
Natasha Lennard
A new Yale study looks at the demographics of homeless vets and finds care lacking
Dear Barack: Stop terrorizing the planet
Tom Engelhardt
An open letter to the president to end his lethal -- and ever-expanding -- drone wars
Fox News president reportedly tried to get Petraeus to run for president
Jillian Rayfield
“It’s never going to happen,” Petraeus says in an audio recording
America’s gun industry is booming
Jennifer Wilmore
A recent Gallup survey indicates 47 percent of American adults keep guns -- the most since 1993
“Drones are not a security solution”
Don Hazen
Progressive filmmaker Robert Greenwald details his experiences interviewing the Pakistani victims of U.S. attacks
“Three Cups of Tea” co-author David Oliver Relin dies at 49
Associated Press
Relin committed suicide on Nov. 14
Is feminism worth defending with torture?
Andrew O'Hehir
How Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Osama-hunting saga faces the thorniest moral dilemmas of the "war on terror"
A Facebook lesson for terrorists
Andrew Leonard
Be careful when you "like" that video of a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. The FBI is watching
Pakistan faces a growing opium scourge
May Wilkerson
The country's drug problem is expected to worsen when troops leave neighboring Afghanistan
Guantanamo death was suicide, US finds
Associated Press
Adnan Latif took an overdose of psychiatric medication in September, Defense Department confirms
Bradley Manning testifies
Natasha Lennard
The solider recounts harsh detainment; prosecution plans to use declassified material from bin Laden's computer
Can we stop worshipping American generals now?
William J. Astore
For those devastated by Petraeus' fall from grace, here's a newsflash: We enabled him with our sycophancy
Why Washington needs Joe Biden
Alex Seitz-Wald
Forget the goofy uncle image. Biden's the only senior official willing to dissent from the foreign policy consensus
America’s forgotten war
Andrew Gumbel
Historian Jon Wiener asks: If the Cold War was a great struggle the West won, then where are all the monuments?
“Red Dawn”: Dumbest ’80s remake ever?
Hugh Ryan
"Red Dawn" pitted Americans against Communists. A reboot casts the enemy as North Korea -- and it's absurd
Four California men charged in terror plot
Associated Press
FBI say the U.S. residents joined al-Qaida and planned "violent jihad"
Petraeus: American decline writ small
Tom Engelhardt
The former general was once billed as the man who could save Iraq. Maybe that's why his downfall feels so symbolic
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