Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 288)
Bruce: “Its just too big a battle to lay out of”
Geraldine Sealey
Tales of torture
Vikram Dodd, Tania Branigan
Questioned at gunpoint, shackled, forced to pose naked. British detainees tell their stories of Guantanamo Bay.
Wired awake
Ian Sample
Soldiers in the field go for days without rest. Now, an investigation has found the British Ministry of Defense has been buying a new stimulant in bulk.
Byrd vs. Bush
Mary Jacoby
Sen. Robert Byrd blasts fellow senators for believing "the garbage that was being spewed out by the administration" on Iraq, and thanks the airline passengers who "died to save this Capitol, my life and my staff."
How John Kerry should handle Iraq
Compiled by Salon staff
Thoughts on President Bush's foreign policy debacle -- and what the Democratic presidential nominee should say and do about it -- from John Judis, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Michael Lind and more.
Bush’s bungled Saudi deal-making
Charles Tiefer
President Bush and his lawyer, the former U.S. ambassador in Riyadh, wasted a golden opportunity to pressure the Saudis to crack down on terrorism.
Friday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
“The Asset” and the Iran-al Qaida connection
Stephen W. Stromberg
The man who invented the future
Scott Thill
Alan Moore, who reinvented the comic book as the cutting-edge literary medium of our day, talks about beheading, the diabolical power of the media, the Bush dynasty and the fall of Tony Blair.
The final word from the 9/11 commission
Geraldine Sealey
Army finds 94 cases of prisoner abuse
Geraldine Sealey
Afghanistan’s rocky road to freedom
Duncan Campbell
Nearly three years after Operation Enduring Freedom was launched, not much of the operation endures and many basic freedoms -- from insecurity, from fear, from poverty -- remain elusive.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on how to talk to your kids about drugs even if you still do them. Plus: Hooray for Dan Savage!
Bush’s legislative sinkhole
Stephen W. Stromberg
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Will women change Afghanistan?
Duncan Campbell
More than two million women have registered to vote in Afghanistan's forthcoming elections despite repeated threats and violence from the Taliban.
G.I. Joe critics
Bill Warhop
How I talked four Army infantrymen from Fort Benning, Ga., into seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11." And telling me what they really think of Michael Moore.
The “Fahrenheit” boiling point
Andrew Exum
Since returning home from the war, I've begun to worry that antiwar fervor may turn into anger at U.S. troops.
A matter of survival
Mary Jacoby
The author of "Imperial Hubris" says the moral cowardice and political correctness of senior intelligence officials have severely hurt the war on terrorism.
More murky U.S. deals with the Saudis
Jefferson Morley
A Briton freed from dubious imprisonment in Saudi Arabia as part of a deal that released suspected terrorists from Guantanamo blasts the trade as hypocritical and immoral.
A spook speaks out
Mark Follman
In "Imperial Hubris," a not-so-anonymous senior CIA officer says that bin Laden isn't an apocalyptic evildoer who "hates our freedom" -- he and his followers have real grievances that we must address by changing our failed Mideast policies.
Tuesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey, Stephen W. Stromberg
The George Clooney of Kabul
Duncan Campbell, Kitty Logan
Ex-American G.I. is focus of an investigation into freelance bounty hunters drawn to Afghanistan.
Happy Birthday
Geraldine Sealey
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