Tag: Afghanistan War
After Afghanistan, US military presence abroad faces domestic and foreign opposition...
While these reductions may seem like a U.S. military withdrawal from the world stage, its presence overseas remains vast.
September 11 and the debacle of ‘nation-building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan
Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.
Lies that led to the Afghan war
We must learn to be skeptical of both our political leaders and our mass media, when they give us reasons for going to war.
Two massacres? Disturbing accusations in the wake of Kabul airport bombings
The attacks were used by interventionist pundits in English speaking countries as an excuse to postpone the end of the almost 20 year NATO occupation.
Now close Gitmo, too
Biden is right to end the forever war in Afghanistan. Now he needs to close the forever prison that it built.
Humbled US leaves chaos and mass murder while fleeing Afghanistan
Kids die last as Biden plays tough guy...
At the end of this hated war, we need truth
The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should force a reckoning with a long history of military intervention.
“Mayhem”: Chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as suicide bombs kill 110+...
Thursday was the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in a decade.
Look! Take an Afghander at that perennial FUBAR
We see exactly what we see in Afghanistan right now, the logical mess at the end of nearly two decades of mistakes compounding mistakes.
The war in Afghanistan is dead. Long live the war on...
In ending the war in Afghanistan, Biden left the door open for more “counterterrorism” — with serious implications for our foreign policy, politics, and legal system.
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The Republican Party’s latest wave of attacks against anyone who threatens the white supremacist patriarchy is couched in false concern for health and well-being.
11th Commandment from Jesus at the Super Bowl: “Thou shall have no other brands...
Right now, second only to Trump and his farcical election deniers, are there any greater hypocrites in the world than extremist American fundamentalists?
White House says GOP bill would force ‘one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts’...
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," said a White House spokesperson.
Outrage as Biden Administration recommends major Alaska oil project
"The project is “drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy,” but that “it’s not too late for him to step up and pull the plug on this carbon bomb."
In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of for-profit medicine’
"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."