Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 97)
Noam Chomsky: We’re facing a new Cold War
Noam Chomsky
The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes
America’s other Iraq calamity: How our failed war has empowered Iran
Peter Van Buren
Iran isn't any closer to developing a bomb, and the U.S. has only itself to blame for its influence in the region
Thomas Jefferson’s torturous afterlife: How Ronald Reagan and the Tea Party try to steal his legacy
Andrew Burstein
The founder of the Democratic Party seems equally beloved by right and left. How did he become a Tea Partyer?
Dick Cheney’s gift to the Middle East: How America created an Afghan Blackwater
Anand Gopal
Just as the U.S. threw its support behind the Taliban, officials have empowered a whole new set of Afghan warlords
“Westerns are always a magnifying glass”: How movies trace social change involving race, gender, ethnicity, youth & class
Richard Aquila
From "The Great Train Robbery" to "Django Unchained," westerns tell the story of the American century
America’s insidious drone dependence: Why there’s no going back
Grégoire Chamayou
From Vietnam to Afghanistan, a look at how extra-judicial killing became a linchpin of U.S. foreign policy
We gotta get out of this place: The GOP’s war fixation and the lingering curse of Vietnam
Andrew O'Hehir
A haunting film about Vietnam re-enactors touches a cultural nerve: America has never gotten past that trauma
“The GOP has scores of racists”: A former Bush official condemns modern Republican orthodoxy
Manny Otiko
Colin Powell's former chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, warns of the militarism & racism of Republican lawmakers
Listen, it’s still their f**king fault: Bush, Cheney, neo-con drivel, and the truth about Iraq and ISIS
Paul Rosenberg
We can't believe we have to explain 9/11, ISIS and Iraq again. But as the right's lies add up, here goes
Dick Cheney’s contemptible shamelessness: The Vader veep strikes again
Luke Brinker
The man who promised we'd be "greeted as liberators" in Iraq dings Obama as the "worst president" on foreign policy
GOP Sen. Mark Kirk comes unhinged over Iran agreement, name-checks Hitler
Luke Brinker
The Republican goes full wingnut after framework for an historic nuclear deal is announced
The American empire is over: Afghanistan, China and our new bystander status
Dilip Hiro
After a decade plus of war, the U.S. can only watch as China brokers Afghan peace. Here's where we went so wrong
The right’s Bergdahl calamity: How Bill O’Reilly & Rush Limbaugh discard America’s norms
Heather Digby Parton
Once upon a time, prisoners of war weren't treated like terrorists, and people got their day in court. That's over
Conservatives’ history problem: Why they’re doomed by their own “Golden Age”
Michael Lind
Compare the heydays of progressives and conservatives -- and it's clear which one fared better for Americans
America is still fighting the Cold War: Why its military “strategy” is hopeless
William Hartung
Current levels of Pentagon spending simply aren't sustainable. The time is now to abandon our global war on terror
The right’s hot Bergdahl rage: Why a former prisoner drives conservatives batty
Elias Isquith
This week's news of the former POW's charges inspired a future history lesson on the far right's violent tendencies
Fox News would have hated Ronald Reagan: These conservative icons would be RINOs to the party of Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton
Alex Henderson
The wingnuts rule the party, and they're even wackier than pols who seemed like far-right crazies not that long ago
Jesus would hate you all — and you didn’t build that: The truth about the ultra-rich and their New York Times apologists
Paul Rosenberg
Conservatives are fighting a war on poverty, which really means a war on poor people -- and a defense of the rich
Bowe Bergdahl will be charged with desertion and misbehavior, official says
Lolita C. Baldor
Army sergeant held captive in Afghanistan for five years set to be court martialed
America’s ISIS next door: Mexico, billion-dollar cartels and the colossal failure of the war on drugs
Rebecca Gordon
They behead people by the hundreds. And like ISIL, Mexican gangs are flourishing as a result of failed U.S. policy
“Crack cocaine for the Pentagon”: Meet the secret slush fund that’s getting hawks high
David Dayen
While the right cuts tons of basic services, here's the secret slush fund the military doesn't want you to discover
John Oliver’s British accent is breaking YouTube’s closed captioning, apparently
Colin Gorenstein
Is it really that hard to understand, though?
ISIS: Making sense of the spectacular brutality and viral engagement fueling the new state of terror
Laura Miller
Experts explain how botched American policies helped create a movement that revolutionized Islamist extremism
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