Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Tag: Middle East

Be careful what you wish for

The true lessons of the Afghan war...

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.

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.

One year of Afghanistan war spending could fund resettlement of 1.2...

“We’ve spent billions on war. Now, let’s spend to bring Afghans to safety.”

America’s Afghan war is ending. What about Iraq — and Iran?

Even as Biden sticks to the Afghanistan withdrawal, he's launching strikes in Iraq and delaying a return to the Iran deal.

With Afghanistan withdrawal underway, new report reveals costs of post-9/11 wars...

“Americans do not fully understand, do not acknowledge, the sacrifices that allies made in Afghanistan,” said the report’s author.

The true meaning of the Afghan “withdrawal”

Will the nightmare of Saigon's fall return in Kabul?

The hawks who want war with Iran are working overtime

As the saboteurs of diplomacy hope for a violent escalation, let’s keep in mind, and hope Iran agrees, that the best revenge would be a revived JCPOA.

Is the long war finally ending?

Withdrawing several thousand U.S. troops from Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg.

“The bleeding wound”

Osama bin Laden won (twice)...

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Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach

Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.

You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is…

“At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”

ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along

This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.

The Trump Inversion Scam makes the world great again – except for America and abused...

Trumpism in a nutshell: batter average citizens to buttress concentrated crony capitalist power. DOGE will end up not as positive, creative destruction, simply self-destructive destruction.

UK carbon emissions reach lowest level since 1872

Coal use plummets to levels not seen since the 1600s.