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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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.