Tag: Afghanistan
Ready or not, here they come
A military spouse’s perspective on bringing the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Afghan troops say Taliban are brothers and war is ‘not really...
Afghan troops whose lives hang in the balance in the latest peace talks.
The real lesson of Afghanistan is that regime change does not...
A world in which war is normal and peace is out of reach is no more survivable or sustainable than a world where the atmosphere gets hotter every year.
Mass killings in Afghanistan are acts of white supremacy
An American white nationalist killed over 30 people recently. The victims, all brown, had full lives; children, loved ones, and years, full...
‘Total massacre’ as U.S. drone strike kills 30 farmers in Afghanistan
Amnesty International said the bombing "suggests a shocking disregard for civilian life."
Recalling the hundreds of thousands of civilian victims of America’s endless...
It’s time we as a nation gave some thought to and did some penance for all those civilian deaths and combatant deaths as we remember 9-11.
Reflections on “peace” in Afghanistan
When the conflict that the Vietnamese refer to as the American War ended in April 1975, I was a U.S. Army captain...
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2021 update: Half of America in or near poverty
The facts and numbers from numerous sources reflect the reality of deprivation in America, and help to confirm what has been called the "sharpest rise in the U.S. poverty rate since the 1960s."
Nearly 800 organizations and individuals in the United States demand the Biden administration end...
“President Biden claims to care about racial equity but his actions in Haiti show the emptiness of that rhetoric.”
Is US presidential candidate Joe Biden a war criminal?
Joe Biden had supported the Iraq War of 2003. But no one knows why he is running away from the truth.
Cost of War: US ‘counterterrorism’ activities in 85 countries
"If the U.S. is truly to end the post-9/11 wars and related activities around the world, then the U.S. public and its leaders must take a broader view of their reach."
Biden’s reckless Syria bombing is not the diplomacy he promised
This is not what he promised in his campaign and it is not what the American people voted for.