Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 89)
“Did you kill anybody?”: 9 things not to ask returning vets
Janet Allon
Sure, you mean well, but you have no idea what effect your question might have on a vet. Here's what to avoid
Veterans hope MDMA can cure their PTSD: “It’s hard to talk about because it’s the elephant in the room”
Christine Jun
Salon talks to a leading activist pushing for legalizing marijuana, MDMA and ayahuasca to treat returning soldiers
We’re repeating Bush’s failure: An Iraq veteran despairs over our deepening climate-change denial
Roy Scranton
I watched American denial at work as a soldier in Iraq. I'm seeing it all over again in our global warming response
“The horror makes the thrill”: Why the New York Times’ “beautiful” war images of death and destruction won’t change many minds
John Pettegrew
With the transformations in digital media, we're living in an age of “pump-you-up-to-kill-the-bad-guys videos”
Henry Kissinger’s genocidal legacy: Vietnam, Cambodia and the birth of American militarism
Greg Grandin
Nixon introduced us to permanent, extrajudicial war in Southeast Asia, and it continues today in the Middle East
America lost in Afghanistan: Anatomy of a foreign policy disaster
Ann Jones
Ten months ago, we celebrated the end of the longest war in U.S. history. Our victory has since proven pyrrhic
Judy Miller’s ghost lingers: Putin, Syria and how the New York Times cheers on a new Cold War
Patrick L. Smith
The propagandists have turned on the fog machine. Let's try and sort out myth vs. reality with Russia, Middle East
Not playing fair: How Christine Fair, defender of U.S. drone program in Pakistan, twists the facts — and may have conflicts of her own
Ben Norton
Leading drone defender Christine Fair claims critics are biased, yet is widely accused of her own double standards
U.S. military blew $43 million on “world’s most expensive gas station” in Afghanistan
Ben Norton
The gas station should have cost $300,000, but the DoD spent 143 times that — and doesn't know where the money went
The military-industrial-propaganda complex: The neo-con think tanks that drive policy and send us to war
James McCartney, Molly Sinclair McCartney
Well-funded think tanks push corporate agendas through media "experts" and sustain the neo-conservative apparatus
The NRA wants us to live in fear: The demented, highly profitable and deeply cynical logic behind arming everyone
Firmin DeBrabander
Corporations will make millions off chalkboards that turn into armor. Common-sense gun control would keep us safer
“My little war-porn addiction”: David Shields on how the New York Times made the Iraq and Afghanistan wars look “really cool, really glamorous, really bloodless”
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to David Shields about the Times' "jingoistic flag waving" in its "war is heck" photography
Americans just can’t be bothered: Why our national security state remains largely uncontested
Tom Engelhardt
Bernie Sanders nailed it on the head. The only thing that can save our democracy is mobilization on a massive scale
The GOP can’t escape football: Republicans’ long love affair with America’s most brutal sport
Matthew Rozsa
At last week's debate, Chris Christie lamented that moderators would ask about fantasy football. Sorry, Chris...
“Saudi authorities are denying the evident truth”: Doctors Without Borders says it’s “beyond doubt” that U.S.-backed coalition bombed hospital
Ben Norton
Doctors Without Borders and the U.N. say the coalition bombed a Yemeni hospital, yet the coalition denies it
President Obama breaks pledge: U.S. will send ground troops into Syria
Sophia Tesfaye
For years, the president has pledged not to send U.S. forces into Syria. Now, he's reversing course
We still think we’re heroes: The sad denialism that plagues American foreign policy
William J. Astore
World War II convinced us we were righteous liberators, but we've always been imperialists driven by self-interest
U.S.-backed Saudi coalition bombs Doctors Without Borders hospital weeks after U.S. destroyed Afghan hospital
Ben Norton
U.N. condemns the Saudi coalition after its airstrikes destroy another MSF hospital, weeks after shelling a wedding
“Does anyone have a plan?” Here’s how we fix decades of overseas neo-conservative adventurism
Patrick L. Smith
We have accepted the horrors of American exceptionalism for too long. Here's a progressive foreign policy blueprint
America’s not-so-special ops: The spectacular fall of our most elite soldiers
Nick Turse
Over and over again, in regions across the globe, the U.S. military is proving useless in training foreign armies
The real Benghazi scandal that is ignored: How Hillary Clinton, the Obama admin. and NATO destroyed Libya
Ben Norton
Republicans are trying to create a scandal where there isn't one -- while they ignore the biggest scandal of all
Noam Chomsky nails the GOP’s sick priorities: “Don’t do anything — or bomb”
Sophia Tesfaye
Radical Republicans have successfully pulled America so far right that it's "a plutocracy with democratic forms"
America’s sad, delusional foreign policy: The real reason why things are falling apart
Robert Hennelly
Our leaders refuse to accept the reality of international relations. Only more pain can come
Next, let’s sic Donald Trump on Dick Cheney: Evil veep’s 9/11 revisionism must be confronted, too
Valerie Plame
Dr. Evil's latest unhinged rant smacks of sedition -- and it needs to be confronted head-on, says Valerie Plame
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