Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 280)
Has the war on terror hurt the war on drugs?
Jason Burke
New reports reveal that global demand for illegal substances is higher than ever despite actions to curb supply.
P.R. fiasco on Guantanamo
Suzanne Goldenberg
A judge rules prisoners cannot be transferred to Yemen as the Pentagon confirms allegations that four female interrogators sexually humiliated detainees at the base.
Bush, race and Social Security
Tim Grieve
The president suggests that privatization opponents think a "certain race" lacks the capacity to invest.
Don’t like Guantanamo? How about Saudi Arabia?
Tim Grieve
The Pentagon plans rendition on a massive scale.
The invisible wounded
Mark Benjamin
Injured soldiers evacuated to the U.S. never arrive in the light of day -- and the Pentagon has yet to offer a satisfactory explanation why.
What the tsunami dragged in
Jeff Greenwald
Still sorting through the debris in Sri Lanka, officials are uncovering the explosive legacy of a wartorn area: Land mines.
Failing the troops
Tim Grieve
Despite all the bumper sticker politics about "supporting the troops," a new report shows that the Bush administration's bumbling left U.S. soldiers in Iraq without the body armor they needed.
Where’s Osama?
Tim Grieve
Bush says the United States is on the hunt, but did the Pentagon shift troops to Iraq for the elections instead?
The challenges of nation building
Simon Tisdall
The U.N. warns that though its civil war is over, Afghanistan could easily slip back into chaos.
Letters
Salon Staff
Veterans respond to Mark Benjamin's article on Walter Reed and share their own frustrations with the Army's medical bureaucracy.
A U.S. fleet for outsourcing torture?
Mark Follman
More evidence of aircraft used in the Bush administration's secretive program for rendering terrorist suspects to foreign countries.
New claims of detainee torture
Suzanne Goldenberg, James Meek
Documents obtained by the ACLU indicate that the U.S. used interrogation methods in Afghanistan as harsh as those employed at Abu Ghraib.
There but for the grace of God . . .
Tim Grieve
Treating agony with ecstasy
David Adam
Drugs dismissed as merely recreational, such as MDMA and psilocybin, are getting a second look for medicinal use in trials underway at several universities.
How do you translate “death”?
Mitchell Prothero
A group of Iraqi translators say their American employer won't protect them from deadly insurgents -- who they say have infiltrated the company.
“Compassionate conservatism,” R.I.P.
Joe Conason
Bush's budget barely cuts his vast deficit -- and the people it hurts worst are the poorest Americans.
America’s extraordinary tolerance for torture
Mark Follman
By now shouldn't liberals and conservatives alike be aghast over the Bush administration's secret, systematic policy of outsourcing torture?
Bush’s lean and mean new budget
Julia Scott
For low-income Americans, who will have less money to pay for child care, heating bills, housing and public parks, it will be mostly mean.
Follow the money
Tim Grieve
United and divided
Jill Carroll
Newly empowered Shiites are wrangling over religion and politics as ayatollahs, and the U.S., seek to shape Iraq's new government.
Spitballs
Tim Grieve
What’s really going on in Afghanistan?
Mark Follman
We’d go fishing, too
Tim Grieve
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