Tag: war
US drone attack kills at least 10 Afghan civilians—including 6 children
"Too many children have already died from U.S. drone strikes. We cannot accept one more, let alone six."
America’s merchants of death then—and now
More Afghan-like tragedies will be inevitable until we squeeze the personal profit out of prepping for war.
Will Americans who were right on Afghanistan still be ignored?
After spending trillions of dollars and killing millions of people, the abysmal record of U.S. war-making since World War II remains a tragic litany of failure and defeat, even on its own terms.
“The Afghanistan Papers”: Docs show how Bush, Obama, Trump lied about...
“All these presidents said we were going to win the war, and yet, in private, these officials were extremely pessimistic.”
Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?
This external approach, based on military occupation, to promote democracy in occupied foreign countries was “doomed to fail.”
Blood in the sand
The U.S. has nothing to show for its efforts after trillions of dollars were spent on wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond, but blood in the sand.
After 20 years of lies and war, US retreat underway as...
"It's like the United States lost another war after destabilizing a country that will likely be a failed state for decades, something which has happened multiple times in the 'War on Terrorism.'"
Biden could have spared Afghanistan and US 6 months of pointless...
The Taliban opted to push the U.S. out, understandably not believing that Biden was anymore sincere about ending the war and leaving their country than were presidents Bush, Obama or Trump before him.
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Researchers credit stronger enforcement and environmental protections in Brazil while warning that fires, illegal logging, and political threats continue to endanger the rainforest.
The fuel to my revolutionary optimism
As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred.
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The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).