Tag: war in the Middle East
Was the Afghan war a Schell game?
Getting it right is always the wrong approach when it comes to America’s wars.
Lies that led to the Afghan war
We must learn to be skeptical of both our political leaders and our mass media, when they give us reasons for going to 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 Biden Doctrine and Afghanistan: Lean counter-terrorism and the end of...
Ironically, the collapse of the Afghanistan government is a powerful argument that the state-builders and counter-insurgency advocates failed miserably, but Biden took the blame for it.
Biden must call off the B-52s bombing Afghan cities
As we approach the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we should reflect on how the Bush administration exploited the U.S. public’s thirst for revenge to unleash this bloody, tragic and utterly futile 20-year war.
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Undebatable: What Harris and Trump could not say about Israel and Gaza
Silence is a blanket that smothers genuine democratic discourse and the outcries of moral voices. Making those voices inaudible is a key goal for the functioning of the warfare state.
How corporate news has tried to numb Americans to the horrors in Gaza
The process has become so routine that we might not recognize how omission and distortion have constantly shaped views of events since the war began in October.
What’s Trump’s escape valve when (or if) he realizes he’s losing? Bluster ...
There could be greater disruption than Jan. 6, but the enormous, co-ordinated might of law and order won’t get ambushed again.
USDA to distribute $2.2 billion in funding to Black farmers who experienced discrimination
The Biden administration announced it will distribute $2.2 billion in financial assistance to 43,000 farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who were discriminated against in the agency's farm lending programs.
Nearly 200 environmental defenders killed in 2023, marking another deadly year
Nearly 200 environmental defenders were killed for protecting their lands and communities from ecological devastation in 2023 alone, bringing the total number of killings since 2012 to 2,106.