Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 314)
Collateral damage
Robert Scheer
Pumping up the military budget to preposterous proportions, Bush threatens to ruin the country in order to save it.
Beware the highwaymen
Phillip Robertson
Crossing perilous bridges in a cash-filled Corolla, nothing is as important as watching out for black turbans.
Dirty war
Laura Miller
In "The Lessons of Terror," Caleb Carr argues that terrorism never succeeds. If only we could believe him.
That ’80s show
Anthony York
Elephantine military budgets, feed-the-rich tax cuts, ballooning deficits! Democrats charge that Bush is trying to revive those glorious days of Reaganomics. But do they have they guts to fight him?
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The encrypted jihad
Barak Jolish
We can't stop terrorists from using uncrackable codes. So we shouldn't even try.
The deadly children of Ghazni
Phillip Robertson
On the treacherous Kabul-Kandahar road, our correspondent falls into the hands of a gang of feral kids with Kalashnikovs.
Bill Clinton’s questionable clemencies
Chris Mooney
The former president's decision to release Puerto Rican terrorists in 1999 prompted outrage from Congress and his wife. Now it also bolsters claims that he was "soft on terrorism."
Hiding Osama
Joshua Micah Marshall
By sitting on a damning interview with the al-Qaida leader, the Arab network Al-Jazeera proved it's a propaganda outlet, not a news organization.
Bin Laden’s Olympic dreams
Jeff Stein
Al-Qaida conducted "meticulous" surveillance of Salt Lake City, intelligence official says.
Veiled intentions
Norah Vincent
The burqa is a powerful symbol misused by Islamists and Western feminists alike.
“We were wrong”
Wagner James Au
Now when will Nader, Moore, Steinem, Chomsky -- and the other leftists who were monumentally mistaken about the war in Afghanistan -- join me in admitting it?
When should we fight?
King Kaufman
With the war on terrorism expanding, Salon talks to a group of average Americans about the U.S. military's role in the world today.
Keeping the peace in Kabul
Phillip Robertson
As sporadic fighting breaks out around the country, our reporter tags along with a British-led peacekeeping force trying to maintain order in the Afghan capital.
Reactions to the State of the Union
Compiled by Salon staff
Paul Begala, former Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile and others react to the president's address to Congress.
The state of the other union
Joan Walsh
Clinton gives liberal fans an alternative view: Tough on terror, bullish on foreign aid -- and sharp on why the right hates him so.
“Mistakes were made”
Gary Kamiya
An open letter from Osama bin Laden, managing partner and CEO, al-Qaida.
General Motors gets tub-thumped
Iain Aitch
British pop rockers Chumbawamba take the car company's money and run straight to the anti-globalization movement.
What we won’t hear from the president
Joe Conason
The real state of the union: Deficits, debt and an endangered Social Security program.
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Oliver North
Joan Walsh
The Fox News house pundit and Iran-Contra scandal survivor spars with Salon's news editor over Bush, Clinton, bin Laden and whether his own Contra allies were terrorists.
The kitschification of Sept. 11
Daniel Harris
America hid from the harsh realities of the attack behind a maudlin curtain of heavenly firemen and weeping angels.
Neil Bush says Arab P.R. machine not as good as Israel’s
Jake Tapper
In a controversial speech, the president's younger brother tells Saudi audience Arabs must play U.S. media game better.
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