Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 268)
Advocate for Afghan women killed
Tracy Clark-Flory
Safia Ama Jan, director of Afghanistan's Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kandahar, is shot and killed.
The abduction and torture of an innocent man
Glenn Greenwald
The Bush administration continues to evade responsibility for its role in the tragic case of Maher Arar.
Why we are really in Iraq
Gary Kamiya
Bush dragged the U.S. to war so the GOP could win midterm elections -- and the press went along for the ride -- argues the New York Times' Frank Rich.
Bush’s brain found lacking
Walter Shapiro
A slew of new books on Karl Rove make us question whether the president's deputy chief of staff is truly the Machiavellian genius so many in Washington claim.
Virtually dead in Iraq
Rebecca Clarren
To protest the war in Iraq, a media artist infiltrates the U.S. Army's popular online video game and gets himself shot. While angry gamers, soldiers and even some peace activists call him a nuisance, others say his message hits home.
Why we can’t win the “war on terror”
Gary Kamiya
A provocative new book from an expert on terrorism argues that Bush's tough-guy stance is making things much worse -- and that we should negotiate with al-Qaida.
Labor’s love lost
Andrew Brown
How Britons came to hate Tony Blair and America, and why the next prime minister will pay the price.
How bad is he?
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst.
What we lost
Joan Walsh
Almost 3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11, 2001. But our losses are still mounting -- in Iraq and at home -- thanks to the bullying, big-lie culture that dominates American politics today.
Afghanistan’s “vice and virtue” police
Page Rockwell
A repressive Taliban institution is poised to return, with potentially dire consequences for women's rights.
What else I lost
Tristin Aaron
I thought my dear friend's death on 9/11 would be the extent of my loss that day. But his wife -- my best friend -- left my life as well.
“Maus” it’s not
Douglas Wolk
It's possible to make great nonfiction comics. Unfortunately, this adaptation of "The 9/11 Report" is as leaden as the original.
The Sept. 11 that never was
Joe Conason
ABC's docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is a false version of history. It popularizes right-wing myths by exaggerating Clinton's failures and Bush's successes, depicting events that never happened.
“We tortured an insane man”
Alex Koppelman
The author of "The One Percent Doctrine," Ron Suskind, talks about what the U.S. really got out of Abu Zubaydah and why waterboarding doesn't make America safer.
Mixed messages on torture
Mark Benjamin
While Bush was defending "tough" interrogation at one press conference, the Army was calling torture useless at another.
Down with the Iraqis
Sarah Goldstein
Scot adventurer and ex-Iraq governor Rory Stewart explains why civil war in Iraq is unlikely and corruption is sometimes necessary.
Remembrance of Bush’s fiascoes
Sidney Blumenthal
As he travels the nation to commemorate Katrina and 9/11, the president is only highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence.
A tale of two presidents?
Tim Grieve
In yet another effort to sell the war in Iraq, the White House wants you to remember the man with the bullhorn.
The road to 9/11 and beyond
Mark Follman
In a riveting new book that ranges from ancient Mecca to the corridors of the FBI, Lawrence Wright brings to life the fanatics behind 9/11 -- and the turf wars that caused U.S. intelligence to miss it.
Bush to widow: “No point” in talking about the war
Tim Grieve
The presidents meets with families of the fallen.
Dancing on land mines
Tamim Ansary
After 9/11, I told America it couldn't bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age -- it was already there. Since then, the story of my country has been one step up, two steps back.
Destination: Afghanistan
Ann Marlowe
Westerners who came here in the '70s left magnificent travel writing that captured the rugged, captivating land before war tore it apart.
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