Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 184)
Was Iraq “worth it”?
David Sirota
The same cost-benefit analyses deployed against social programs should be applied to our military misadventures
Why drones aren’t game-changers
Nick Turse
A streak of recent crashes shows just how flawed these remotely piloted aircrafts are
Is 2011 really just 1991?
Maria Russo
Kurt Andersen argues the culture is stuck. Perhaps it is -- for boomers who don't keep up and are what they buy
Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths
Glenn Greenwald
Etiquette-based prohibitions on speaking ill of the dead should apply to private individuals, not public figures
Dictators rely on D.C. front men
Ken Silverstein
Professors and lobbyists tout Central Asia's autocrats in Washington
Obama’s Central Asian human rights disaster
Justin Elliott
The U.S. is increasingly relying on the brutal dictator of Uzbekistan to get military supplies into Afghanistan
WikiLeaks Suspect Seen As Hero, Traitor
Salon Staff
Did America help stifle the Arab Spring?
Nick Turse
From Bahrain to Morocco, the Pentagon worked to prop up oppressive regimes
The growing menace of domestic drones
Glenn Greenwald
A look inside the drone industry reveals the dangers and the reasons for their rapid U.S. expansion
The real definition of Terrorism
Glenn Greenwald
The word that simultaneously means nothing and justifies everything.
The state of the post-Cold War spy novel
Emma Mustich
Salon round table: As "Tinker Tailor Solider Spy" arrives, our expert panel debates the spy novel's past and future
Whose army is it?
William J. Astore
The 99 percent has become dangerously removed from the military-industrial complex that controls our remote wars
The scariest commander in chief
Jordan Michael Smith
Gingrich's foreign policy features violent grandiosity, faux intellectualism and missionary zeal
US Military Deaths In Afghanistan At 1,726
Salon Staff
The new Cold War
Michael Klare
America's military buildup in Asia could launch a devastating arms and energy race between the U.S. and China
NPR’s domestic drone commercial
Glenn Greenwald
The domestic importation of this war on terror weapon merits much more scrutiny than it has thus far received
PolitiFact and the scam of neutral expertise
Glenn Greenwald
Many deeply biased "national security experts" are absurdly treated as objective and ideology-free
George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace
Glenn Greenwald
"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them"
‘Reigniting a new political imagination’
Arun Gupta
Novelist Arundhati Roy on the impact of Occupy Wall Street
America: The ally from hell
Jordan Michael Smith
In Washington, the Pakistan-bashers are having a field day avoiding U.S. responsibility
Ron Paul’s phony populism
Gary Weiss
The libertarian presidential candidate is a true friend of the 1 percent
Why China and Mexico matter
Michael Lind
America's future depends on its relations with these two nations
Is Guantanamo forever?
Andrea Prasow
The Senate contemplates a bipartisan bill to make permanent the failed system of indefinite detention
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