Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 82)
Pacifism in an age of terror: Author of fascinating new book explores the relationship between violence and freedom
Sean Illing
Professor and author Dustin Howes challenges the axiom that force is needed to defend freedom
Donald Trump slouches towards Bethlehem: We’re witnessing the birth of a new American politics
Tom Engelhardt
The GOP is in shambles. The Democrats may not be far behind. Is this the beginning of the end of our democracy?
“We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex
Ben Norton
The military-industrial complex "is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought," says the retired US colonel
Michael Ware’s Iraq War doc doesn’t hold up: “Only The Dead See The End Of War” captures the horror and confusion, but skimps on analysis
Sonia Saraiya
The Time and CNN war correspondent's disconnected HBO documentary could have been a nonfictional “The Hurt Locker”
We brought this on ourselves, and we are the terrorists, too
Patrick L. Smith
There is no more ducking the point: It's not terror only when it happens to us. Our "shock and awe" is terror, too
The myth of the good victim: As an American facing street harassment abroad, I wondered what it meant to be a “good victim”
Patricia Grisafi
"The moment that man took his penis out, my fantasies of an ideal study abroad experience in Florence disappeared"
Hear this, Sanders supporters — you don’t need to back Hillary: You have every right to say “Bernie or bust”
Brogan Morris
Bernie backers want change, not the status quo that Clinton offers, so they have no obligation to her in November
The rise of the Brussels hawks: Everybody is terrified of Donald Trump, but why aren’t they worried about Hillary Clinton too?
Daniel Denvir
Yesterday's horrific terror attacks in Belgium sparked a predictable, disconcerting wave of Western saber-rattling
An army of none: The U.S. military is more powerful, less accountable and more dangerous than ever before
William Astore
Americans delighted in the end of conscription. Decades later, it's taken an unexpected toll on our democracy
Mr. Trump goes to Washington: The surreal spectacle of a know-nothing GOP frontrunner
Heather Digby Parton
On an eventful day capped with an incoherent speech before AIPAC, Trump showed exactly why his campaign is so scary
How jingoism wasted the world: Why liberals finally need to admit that the Afghanistan invasion was wrong
Daniel Denvir
For years, Democrats have clung to the idea that Afghanistan was "the good war." This isn't just wrong, it's deadly
Democrats, you can’t vote for Hillary: The case for writing in Bernie Sanders If Hillary Clinton is the nominee
H. A. Goodman
We need structural change: Clinton as president would merge GOPers and Dems into one party on war & foreign policy
“Homeless and hungry — please help!”: Baltimore’s panhandlers ask for our sympathy and loose change. Why are they so polarizing?
Matt Lallo
Some people give without exception, others never. I set out to meet the individuals who incite both pity & acrimony
5 foreign policy questions we’ll never ask our presidential candidates
Peter Van Buren
What is the endgame for our war on terror? And at what point do we begin pairing back the size of our military?
Our nominee is a disaster: Time may be running out, but Democrats will come to rue Clinton over Sanders
H. A. Goodman
Why there's no chance in hell I'm voting for Hillary — and you shouldn't either
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
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