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Department of Defense destroys Afghanistan war memoir

Associated Press

Military officials watch as St. Martin's Press pulps 9,500 copies of a former officer's memoir

09/27/2010 17:30 EDT

Manned NATO aircraft attack Pakistan

Sebastian Abbot, Eric Talmadge

At least 50 militants are killed in a series of air strikes

09/27/2010 13:37 EDT

U.S. walks out on Ahmadinejad U.N. speech

Ali Akbar Dareini

Iranian president suggests America was responsible for 9/11 attacks, criticizes wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

09/23/2010 20:42 EDT

FILE - In this April 5, 2010 file photo, House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Va., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner could walk down most U.S. streets anonymously. But the perpetually tanned golf lover, who grew up in a Cincinnati family of 14, could become the next House speaker and the GOP leader of opposition to President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File) (AP)

House GOP’s Pledge to America: World’s saddest to-do list

Alex Pareene

House Republicans promise to slash taxes, buy more missiles, and fix the deficit

09/23/2010 14:10 EDT

"Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" director Oliver Stone, left, and star Michael Douglas.

Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline

Matt Zoller Seitz

The director talks at length about his "Wall Street" sequel, his Nazi comments and why he loves George W. Bush

09/23/2010 11:01 EDT

U.S. officials say CIA runs elite Afghan fighting force

Adam Goldman, Kimberly Dozier

Paramilitaries are being used in ramped-up American counter-terror operations against the Taliban

09/22/2010 21:08 EDT

The awesome stupidity of replacing Larry Summers with a CEO

Andrew Leonard

If Obama's advisors think the president has an "anti-business" problem, they should be fired

09/22/2010 15:56 EDT

TV discussions

Glenn Greenwald

On MSNBC, talking about Iran, Afghanistan, the Tea Party and other subjects

09/22/2010 14:23 EDT

This image provided by Simon & Schuster shows the cover of Bob Woodward's new book, "Obama's Wars". Woodward's latest investigative work will run 441 pages and show Obama "making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism," Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010. The book is scheduled to go on sale Sept. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Simon & Schuster) NO SALES (AP)

Woodward scoop: CIA army operating in Pakistan

Justin Elliott

"Obama's Wars" contains significant revelations about U.S. foreign policy, plus stories of interpersonal sniping

09/22/2010 13:37 EDT

A U.S. soldier from the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, waits to load his bag onto a military vehicle carrying other bags as he prepares to leave for Kuwait from Tallil Air Base near Nassiriya, Iraq, on August 15.

One and a half cheers for American decline

Tom Engelhardt

The future is not ours -- and that's good news. Losing our world power status will let us focus on problems at home

09/21/2010 17:01 EDT

Monday link dump: Ben Stein’s money

Alex Pareene

The Maine Republicans worry, Christine O'Donnell diagnoses homosexuality, and Kaus finds a job

09/20/2010 23:01 EDT

The Ahmadinejad game

Glenn Greenwald

Debating Iran on MSNBC with a perennial war supporter

09/20/2010 21:21 EDT

FILE - In this March 12, 2009 file photo, Jon Stewart is shown during a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file) (AP)

The perils of false equivalencies and self-proclaimed centrism

Glenn Greenwald

Jon Stewart strains to make his March of the Moderates include targets on the left and right

09/19/2010 17:20 EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2010 file photo, U.S. Army Spc. Cody Borawa, of Unadilla, N.Y., of Tactical Command Post, HQ Company, 2-502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, looks for a Taliban position, during a day of joint missions with the Afghan Army, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. Since May, troops from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division have flooded into this region in a bid to disrupt the guerrillas' operations and block them from staging attacks into Kandahar city, the security of which is considered a linchpin of American strategy to win the conflict. But the militants, some from neighboring Pakistan, have brought in hundreds of fighters of their own and stepped up attacks, U.S. officers say. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (AP)

Public opinion and the war in Afghanistan

Glenn Greenwald

Does it matter that a majority of Americans believe the U.S. should not be fighting in that country?

09/16/2010 10:17 EDT

Obama in Wonderland

Glenn Greenwald

Eight months after imposing the death penalty on a U.S. citizen, Obama considers indicting him

09/15/2010 12:16 EDT

Reports: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm

Angela Doland

Police search finds nothing, but a defense agency says risk of terrorist attack on French soil never been higher

09/14/2010 23:17 EDT

U.S. Marines prepare to carry one of two comrades wounded in an IED attack to a waiting U.S. Army Task Force Shadow medevac helicopter on a rescue mission west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Aeromedical teams with the 101st Airborne's Task Force Destiny provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

The wacky world of American war quiz

Tom Engelhardt, Nick Turse

Four weeks of war news you wouldn't believe if it weren't in the newspapers

09/14/2010 22:01 EDT

President Barack Obama shakes hands with students after delivering remarks at his second annual back-to-school speech, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, at Julia R. Masterman School in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The secret, decoded text of Obama’s speech to children

Jonathan Bernstein

What the president was really saying in his address to America's schoolchildren today

09/14/2010 20:11 EDT

US considers terror charges for cleric al-Awlaki

Matt Apuzzo

U.S. citizen who is "al-Qaida's leading English-speaking voice" may face criminal charges if captured alive

09/14/2010 14:40 EDT

The war socialism of the American right

Michael Lind

Conservatives do not object to Keynesianism -- as long as it involves the military

09/14/2010 11:01 EDT

Interview with Sen. Russ Feingold

Glenn Greenwald

The Wisconsin Democrat faces a very tough re-election fight: why the outcome genuinely matters

09/14/2010 10:15 EDT

Transcript: Interview with Sen. Russ Feingold

Glenn Greenwald

Talking with the Wisconsin Democrat about Obama's civil liberties record and his own re-election bid

09/14/2010 10:10 EDT

Sarah Palin’s feminist revolution

Rebecca Traister

When the pro-life politician embraced the F-word, she horrified Democrats -- and electrified her fan base

09/13/2010 15:01 EDT

The site of a proposed mosque sits closed as a police officer stands guard in New York, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (David Goldman)

Why the GOP embraced Islamophobia

Joe Conason

Fanning fears of Muslims has never made better -- or more cynical -- political sense

09/12/2010 16:01 EDT