Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 82)
Let’s demilitarize the military: The Pentagon may pose the single greatest threat to our democracy
Gregory D. Foster
We blow billions on national security while our infrastructure rots. This is not how a functioning republic behaves
I’m stranded in Trumplandia: Life on the edge of America’s abandoned middle class
Robert Hennelly
While our leaders boast about an anemic recovery, both parties ignore the suffering before them. I know it too well
Noam Chomsky: “I have never seen such lunatics in the political system”
Simone Chun
The philosopher and linguist lays waste to the Republican field and sounds the alarm about Hillary's foreign policy
Play it again, Uncle Sam: America keeps fighting the same war and losing
Tom Engelhardt
The generals change, the results in Afghanistan remain the same. Just don't bet on Washington correcting course
Trump would be as bad as Bush: A commander-in-chief who respects the military does not order soldiers to commit war crimes
Michael Carson
Soldiers follow orders, legal or not. I know, because I had to make those same calls in Iraq
Forget the “Washington playbook”: How the Obama doctrine is so vastly different from what Americans are used to in the Oval Office
Elias Isquith
Saying he's a radical would be overstating it. But in one crucial respect, Obama truly has rejected the status quo
From ally to enemy: New U.S. State Dept.-designated terrorists fight in extremist group supported by CIA in ’80s
Ben Norton
The CIA and US allies funneled weapons to the Afghan extremist group Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin — an ally turned enemy
Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren wage the drone war — but the intriguing thriller “Eye in the Sky” doesn’t go far enough
Andrew O'Hehir
A gripping drama built around two terrific British stars struggles with the murk and ugliness of drone warfare
Satire is dead when France honors the theocratic Saudi monarchy for “countering extremism and fighting terrorism”
Ben Norton
E.U. and U.S. quietly admit Saudi Arabia is largest supporter of Islamic extremism, yet publicly pretend otherwise
My secret debate with Sam Harris: A revealing 4-hour dialogue on Islam, racism & free-speech hypocrisy
Omer Aziz
When I wrote an essay critical of the famous atheist, he asked me to debate the issues. Now he refuses to air it
“They are refugees”: U.S. government deporting Central American migrants who fled “extreme” violence
Ben Norton
Study: ICE sends refugees from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala back to what are basically unofficial war zones
We the people, bathed in blood: American foreign policy is no less barbaric than Trump’s
Mattea Kramer
The Donald plans to target terrorists' families. The Obama administration merely considers them collateral damage
Tina Fey reinvents herself in the rich Afghan War dramedy “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”
Andrew O'Hehir
"Eat Pray Love" meets "Zero Dark Thirty" in Fey's strange, delicate star vehicle -- with some dubious casting
This civil war is going to end: Don’t forget that Bernie & Hillary are on the same side
Matthew Rozsa
While many fans of Bernie Sanders insist that they'll never vote for Clinton, they'd do well to look at the facts
DNC vice chair resigns, endorses Sanders, blasts Clinton’s “interventionist, regime change policies”
Ben Norton
Tulsi Gabbard left the Democratic National Committee, which has been accused of pro-Hillary bias, to support Bernie
We’re never winning these wars: America has zero to show for its decades of bloodshed in the Middle East
Tom Engelhardt
Armed conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond hasn't brought anything close to lasting peace. Quite the opposite
Facebook’s shameless “colonial” ambitions: Why its aggressive play for Indian users was rightfully banned
Eesha Pandit
The Internet giant's aggressive India expansion plan would have undermined net neutrality — so it was banned
This is not a “European crisis,” it’s a Syrian crisis: A human rights expert on why we’re only now paying attention to a decades-old global refugee crisis, and what you can do
David Palumbo-Liu
Why the EU should be able to absorb the incoming refugees, and how the human drama gets lost in the numbers
How opium defeated America in Afghanistan
Alfred McCoy
A pink flower has stopped the world's largest military juggernaut in its tracks
Detained whistle-blower Julian Assange remains hopeful he’ll be able to leave embassy; warns a Clinton presidency would bring “disaster”
Ben Norton
Assange tells Salon that WikiLeaks has new releases in the works and talks about Sanders — and his limitations
Democrats who backed Iraq now dare slime Sanders’ foreign policy experience?
Paul Rosenberg
The hawkish Hillary team paints Sanders as a foreign policy naif. His views may be smarter and tougher than hers
15 minutes with David Petraeus: In which he uses his Jedi-like ability to ramble at will while I sit in stupefied silence
Carmen Gentile
I didn't even want the damn interview with the general, but I still feel dirty and duped after he hands me my ass
U.S. kicks off its new bombing campaign in Libya killing 2 Serbian embassy workers
Ben Norton
Serbian officials say they were close to freeing the two ISIS hostages, but U.S. airstrikes killed them
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