Tag: Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s green future?
Can Afghanistan's mineral wealth finance a transition to a carbon-neutral future?
U.S. joins “rules-based world” on Afghanistan
Peace, diplomacy and international law should not be a last resort, to be tried only when Democrats and Republicans alike are finally forced to admit that no new form of force or coercion will work.
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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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.