Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 95)
Rock amid the rubble: California crumbles in ludicrous “San Andreas,” but Dwayne Johnson, of course, saves the day
Andrew O'Hehir
The star's studly good cheer nearly rescues an old-school disaster flick, but total destruction is the real draw
GOP’s bloodthirsty Liam Neeson primary: The one issue which unites the Tea Party and the right
Heather Digby Parton
They agree on taxes and abortion, sure. But it's kicking some ass overseas that really pulls Republicans together
Army of one, soldiers undone: The hope that died in basic training
Kathleen Kilcup
You were a brilliant and courageous woman. How I admired you then. How little either of us understood.
The military is buying patriotism: A Memorial Day nightmare about Pentagon budgets — and veterans used as a sideshow
David Masciotra
This holiday, let's tell the truth: We remember our fallen veterans by not making new ones
“Perilously close to propaganda”: How Fox News shilled for Iraq War, and Jon Stewart returned sanity
Charles L. Ponce De Leon
"Fox Effect" pushed American media to get in line and back the Iraq War. Only two comedy shows had guts to resist
9 depressing predictions for the future of America
Tom Engelhardt
Each of these national security stories is guaranteed to surface at least once in the decades to come
Vote for me or you’ll all die: GOP candidates wallow in the politics of fear
Simon Maloy
Marco Rubio and Chris Christie are quite literally scaring up votes by warning voters that they're in grave danger
John Kerry admits defeat: The Ukraine story the media won’t tell, and why U.S. retreat is a good thing
Patrick L. Smith
The U.S. seems to admit it overplayed its hand over Ukraine. Caving to reality is actually the best possible policy
David Brooks’ sickening Iraq apologia: How the New York Times hack just rewrote history
Simon Maloy
The conservative New York Times columnist explains what he's learned from his Iraq war boosting: largely nothing
“It was a toe-to-toe, behind-the-scenes battle”: Inside the war over the CIA torture report
Elias Isquith
Filmmaker Michael Kirk tells Salon about his new "Frontline" documentary "Secrets, Politics and Torture"
11 times David Letterman humiliated the right
Kali Holloway
One of the late-night host's greatest gifts was calling BS on conservatives' most ludicrous talking points
“I wanted a discharge before I ended up dead”: Military victims of sexual violence fear for their lives while rapists walk free
Katie McDonough
A new report from Human Rights Watch finds that victims are more likely than rapists to face punishment
“This is as important as the Berlin Wall”: A former leader of UN Peacekeeping operations remembers 9/11
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
In the first major challenge of my UN tenure I urged caution, and have never regretted it
The Dwight Eisenhower lesson America forgot
William J. Astore
In his farewell address, Ike famously warned about our military industrial complex. Now we face permanent war
Chris Hedges: “Why should we be impoverished so that the profits of big banks, corporations, and hedge funds can swell?”
Chris Hedges
Jeremy Hammond's a hero who exposed surveillance-state secrets. His excessive prison sentence should terrify us all
Marco Rubio’s grand whitewash: Iraq, neoconservatism and the foreign policy catastrophe he wants us all to forget
Simon Maloy
What does neocon Rubio think of the Iraq war? He wouldn't have launched it, but he also thinks it was worthwhile
NYT correspondent defends Sy Hersh’s bin Laden exposé: “My own reporting tracks”
Joanna Rothkopf
Carlotta Gall writes that Hersh is "following up on a story that many of us assembled parts of"
“Farkhunda is our sister”: A murder, a martyr and an Afghan revolution in the making
Ann Jones
Forty-nine men stand trial for a woman's slaying, renewing hope for the war-torn nation's criminal justice system
Our deranged, amoral football obsession is killing us: Brain damage, accused rapists, convicted murders — now Tom Brady and the “integrity of the game”
Steve Almond
Integrity? Of a game that looks the other way as athletes maim themselves, we cheer, and corporations mint cash?
Pope Francis vs. American imperialism: Catholicism, death squads, and the martyrdom of Óscar Romero
Matthew Pulver
Later this month, the Pope will beatify Óscar Romero, who was murdered by an American-trained death squad in 1980
Everything we know about the death of Osama Bin Laden is wrong
Marcy Wheeler
A controversial report by Seymour Hersh leaves still more questions than answers, but it does make one thing clear
“Only when a woman makes her own money does she have her rights”: The importance of digital literacy in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, Jason Brooks Brown
In Afghanistan, girls are treated as second-class citizens. Access to technology could be a road to independence
White America’s greatest delusion: “They do not know it, and they do not want to know it”
Tim Wise
Pundits and politicians are all too eager to condemn violent protest. How quickly they forget our nation's history
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