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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California governor names Feinstein’s replacement in Senate
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A major win against factory farming points to a powerful new direction for the...
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US government shortens indigenous-proposed marine sanctuary to make way for offshore wind
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