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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
Afghan families gather at the Distribution site of WFP Special Nutritious Food to Pregnant and Lactating Mothers with Acute Malnutrition (AM PLW) and Children aged 6-59 months with moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM children) at an Internally Displaced Camp on September 29, 2021, in the outskirt of Herat, Afghanistan. Since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the economy has suffered after the world aid funding stopped, which has created a humanitarian crisis. Most art, culture, and pastimes have been banned. The female population has also had to quit jobs and young girls after the age of 12 can no longer go to school or further education. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Afghans face famine: Do we really care?

Julie Hollar - FAIR
Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit storm into the Kabul International Airport, wielding American supplied weapons, equipment and uniforms after the United States Military have completed their withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

America in 2021: It wasn't a great year

Anis Shivani
Pakistani soldiers check the documents of stranded Afghan nationals wanting to return to Afghanistan at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman on August 15, 2021, after the Taliban took control of the Afghan border town in a rapid offensive across the country. (AFP via Getty Images)

Child marriages fueled by climate change

Ruchi Kumar - Undark
An upside-down American flag bearing the names of people killed by police is displayed during a protest on April 13, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The American Century: A total disaster

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
A neighbour of Ezmarai Ahmadi, stands amid the debris of Ahmadi's house that was damaged in a US drone strike in the Kwaja Burga neighbourhood of Kabul on September 18, 2021. (HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)

Pentagon: no negligence in drone strike

Jon Skolnik
Afghan women airport workers are pictured at a security checkpoint of the airport in Kabul on September 12, 2021 (KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

How feminists can support Afghan women

Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold
Former US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on September 25, 2021 in Perry, Georgia. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Marine probed for Trump rally appearance

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Digital identity fingerprint scanner (Getty Images)

The Pentagon already knows who you are

Chauncey DeVega
Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) shakes hands with Professor Pericles Lewis (C), president of Yale-NUS college after officiating the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the Yale-NUS College while other officials look on in SIngapore on August 27, 2013. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Yale's Singapore venture failed

Jim Sleeper
Washington DC General David Petraeus attends his confirmation hearing for CIA Director, June 23, 2011 (ImageCatcher News Service/Corbis via Getty Images)

Our chaotic Afghan exit was perfect

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Boebert wants to "imeach" Biden

Jon Skolnik
Toy soldier fighting on money (Getty Images)

How war makes the climate crisis worse

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A peace activist holds a peace sign (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Can America now wake up, please?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A view of the damage from a drone strike in Kabul on Sept. 11, 2021. (Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

DoD admits drone mistake killed 7 kids

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Lauren Boebert and Madison Cawthorn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans turn on Afghan refugees

Jon Skolnik
Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield during a Thursday segment in which he cut off a guest's microphone and screamed that he would not tolerate any criticism of former President Donald Trump. (Newsmax/Screengrab)

Heated Newsmax host screams at vet

Zachary Petrizzo
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)

Elliot Ackerman: How Biden blew it

Chauncey DeVega
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)

Do we honor the dead with more killing?

Sam Carliner
Osama bin Laden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/)

Did Osama bin Laden make Trump possible?

Chauncey DeVega
9/11 Rewind (Illustration courtesy of Mr Fish)

Remembering 9/11: Evil begets evil

Chris Hedges
Standing atop rubble with retired New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith, President George W Bush rallies firefighters and rescue workers during an impromptu speech at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York City, New York, September 14, 2001. Image courtesy National Archives. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

9/11 and the birth of the Big Lie

Lucian K. Truscott IV
In a frame from video obtained by The New York Times, a man closes a gate after pulling his car into a courtyard. (Screenshot via New York Times)

The U.S. military's drone strike coverup

Sky Palma - Raw Story
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