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Ronald Reagan meets in the Oval Office with a group of Afghan resistance fighters, Feb. 2, 1983. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Afghanistan's tragedy — and America's

Leila Nadir
President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Desperate Trump puts his racism on show

Heather Digby Parton
Two National Guardsmen were shot by an Afghan evacuee. The soldiers are still in critical condition, but the security in D.C. and for other potential evacuees from areas of conflict are now being reassessed. The motive for this attack remains unclear. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

National Guards shot near White House

CK Smith
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 06: Afghan workers work at poppy field in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 06, 2022. Farmers demand an alternative for plantations after Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation. (Photo by Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Europe's looming overdose crisis

Niko Vorobyov
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US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two as she departs Pittsburgh International Airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 9, 2024, en route to Philadelphia. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Harris flips foreign policy in her favor

Austin Sarat, Dennis Aftergut
A view of destruction after Israeli forces' withdrawal from Khan Yunis, Gaza on April 08, 2024. | Chile's Presidential Palace burns at the height of bombardment during the coup d'etat by the nation's armed forces, 1973 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Israel's kill lists have a long history

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Yemeni men walk past a mural depicting a US drone and reading " Why did you kill my family" on December 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

There was another Oct. 7 — 23 years ago

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
A member of the Ukrainian special forces is seen in silhouette as he stands while a gas station burns after Russian attacks in the city of Kharkiv on March 30, 2022, during Russia's invasion launched on Ukraine. (FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

The war pimps are still lying to us

Chris Hedges
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Caskets for the dead are carried towards the gravesite as relatives and friends attend a mass funeral for members of a family that is said to have been killed in a U.S. drone airstrike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES/Getty Images)

America's systemic racism is global

Norman Solomon
Republican presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks June 10, 2023 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Win McNamee/Getty Imagesv)

Trump's stolen docs aren't just trophies

Amanda Marcotte
Gerard Butler as Tom Harris and Navid Negahban as Mohammed "Mo" Doud in "Kandahar" (Open Road Films/Briarcliff Entertainment)

"We leave these places in ruins"

Gary M. Kramer
Afghan army commandos stand on a sand bank as a US Apache helicopter flies above on February 24, 2010. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP via Getty Images)

CIA keeps working with abusive forces

Lynzy Billing - ProPublica
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A military helicopter flies near the outskirts of Kabul on June 22, 2012. (MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP via Getty Images)

The truth about CIA-backed night raids

Lynzy Billing - ProPublica
A refugee family flees the village of Khanabad in Afghanistan. (Sion Touhig/Getty Images)

Afghan teen survived Taliban but not US

Kartikay Mehrotra, Matti Gellman - ProPublica
A military transport plane flies over as Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Getty Images/MARCUS YAM/LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Seven children dead: Who's to blame?

Jeremy Collins
A picture taken on July 9, 2017, shows smoke billowing following an airstrike by US-led international coalition forces targeting Islamic State (IS) group in Mosul. Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul from jihadists, a US general said Saturday, as celebrations broke out among police forces in the city. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's war crimes — and ours

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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Men In Military Uniforms Standing (Getty Images / Michael Davis / EyeEm)

Neocon war hawks: They're back!

Chris Hedges
APRIL 10, 2020: No TSA Security lines at Pensacola International Airport. (Julie Picardi/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Women denied airfare in Afghanistan

Kelly McClure
A Ukrainian serviceman walks towards the front line in the city of Irpin, northern Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. - Russian forces are positioned around Kiev on March 12, 2022 and are "blocking" Mariupol, where thousands of people are suffering a devastating siege, in southern Ukraine, a country that has been bombed for more than two weeks. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's war crimes — and America's

Norman Solomon
A man walks amid debris in front of a residential apartment complex that was heavily damaged by a Russian attack on March 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces remain on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, but their advance has stalled in recent days, even while Russian strikes - and pieces of intercepted missiles - have hit residential areas in the north of Kyiv. An estimated half of Kyiv's population has fled to other parts of the country, or abroad, since Russia invaded on February 24. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Bombed out: Why we keep making war

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Low angle vintage prison cell (Getty Images)

Docs prove CIA torture training

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Afghan commandos forces patrol during ongoing US-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province. Afghan security forces are conducting most of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent groups as US troops operate alongside them in a training capacity and are frequently on the front lines. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

What we haven't learned from endless war

Nan Levinson - TomDispatch.com
Afghan residents and family members of the victims gather next to a damaged vehicle inside a house, day after a US drone airstrike in Kabul on August 30, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Now the U.S. war machine wants peace

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Starbucks employees wait for results of a vote count, on December 9, 2021 in Buffalo, New York. - The ballots have been cast and employees of three Starbucks cafes in Buffalo have created the first union at outlets owned by the retail coffee giant in the United States. | In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. | Protesters march around downtown Minneapolis near the courthouse calling for justice for George Floyd after closing arguments in the Chauvin trial has ended on Monday, April 19, 2021 in Minneapolis, MN. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A bad year for the world: But still!

Medea Benjamin
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