Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Tag: Afghanistan

Trump’s 100 days: U.S. air campaign hammers Yemen with almost a...

The MOAB arrived in Afghanistan before the inauguration, on January 13.

Should we bomb Syria (or Afghanistan or anywhere)? You’re asking the...

Critics of nonviolence say that option is the prerogative of the privileged. But actually it’s the other way around.

How to lose the next war in the Middle East

The short answer: Fight it!

Noam Chomsky: The real effect of the recent U.S. bombings in...

In a clip from a recent talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Chomsky discusses the Trump administration’s recent military strikes on Syria and Afghanistan.

The “mother of all bombs” killed ISIS fighters – but poor...

One researcher reports that local farmers believed the bomb was nuclear and that they’d been exposed to radiation.

Losing a war one bad metaphor at a time

Thrashing about in the Afghan petri dish.

Get the data: A list of U.S. air and drone strikes,...

US drones and jets have been bombing Afghanistan since late 2001 and the airstrikes look set to continue into the Trump administration.

The Bureau identifies 15 civilians killed in a single US airstrike

In both the Somali and Afghan incidents, the US at first denied that any non-combatants had been killed.

Time To Stop The Next War Now

The country must show it is ready to oppose the next war and the Armageddon that it threatens.

10 Ways to Wage Wars

“George Orwell warned us that the war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Americans need to aggressively question their politicians and the media, ignore empty slogans, challenge warmongering propaganda, and swiftly reject disinformation from the corporate media.”

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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.