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Tag: Afghanistan

Reports: Romney’s Overriding Ambition

Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

A/V Booth: Report Contradicts Obama on Drone Casualties

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Denies Taliban Ties in Afghanistan

Reports: Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline

Reports: Surviving the Hell of War, and Then Some

Reports: Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment?

Reports: Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Reports: Karzai’s Bagram Demands Add Stress to U.S. Policy

Ear to the Ground: Iran Condemns American to Death in Spying Case

Cartoons: Pentagon Budget Cuts

Reports: 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

Ear to the Ground: Obama Signals a Shift in U.S. Military Strategy

Reports: Ron Paul’s Popularity a Sign of a War-Weary America

Ear to the Ground: Anti-American Groups Gather in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Targets Obama

Ear to the Ground: China Wins Afghanistan Oil Contract

Ear to the Ground: Eight U.S. Soldiers Charged in Comrade’s Death

Reports: History Tells Us Not to Dismiss a Democratic Challenge to Obama

Cartoons: Rugs

Ear to the Ground: The Iraq War Is Officially Over

Ear to the Ground: Iran Refuses to Return U.S. Spy Drone

Ear to the Ground: Iran Claims It Captured U.S. Drone

Ear to the Ground: Dozens Killed in Afghan Bombings

Reports: Where Were You When They Crucified My Lord?

Cartoons: U.S. Regrets Friendly Fire Deaths in Pakistan

Reports: China Profits From U.S.-Pakistan Shipwreck

Ear to the Ground: Al-Qaida Holding American Hostage in Pakistan

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: NATO Kills 24 Pakistani Troops

Reports: Why Does Obama Suddenly Want a War With China?

Ear to the Ground: CIA Takes a Big Hit in Lebanon

Reports: How Libya Plays Into NATO’s Identity Crisis

Cartoons: Red Menace

Truthdig Podcast: Manarchy!

A/V Booth: Manarchy!

Reports: Call of Duty: Veterans Join the 99 Percent

Reports: The Worst Generation

Reports: The Arab Spring Gets Messy, and Even Messier for the U.S.

Ear to the Ground: Interactive Map: American Casualties in Iraq by State

Cartoons: Out of Vietnam

Reports: Five Women Who Matter Most

Reports: Afghanistan Is Obama’s Gordian Knot

Ear to the Ground: Adm. Mullen Says Pakistan Intelligence Supports Bombers

Ear to the Ground: Former Afghan President and Peace Negotiator Killed

Cartoons: Count Down

Reports: The Fight-Back Plan

Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Is Dead. Now What?

A/V Booth: Afghanistan and the Big Lie

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Attack U.S. Embassy in Kabul

Ear to the Ground: Scenes From the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Cartoons: Middle East Dominoes

Ear to the Ground: Tom Engelhardt: America, Tear Down ‘Freedom Tower’

Reports: Recognize That It’s Over

Reports: How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11

Ear to the Ground: Chomsky 10 Years After 9/11

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

Reports: 9/11 Victim 0001: Father Mychal’s Message

Reports: Bin Laden’s Unintended Legacy

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Sworn In as Director of CIA

Ear to the Ground: ‘The Price of 9/11’

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: Always Some Bushie There to Remind Us

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Wasting $12M Daily on War Contracts

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Wasted $30 Billion on Contractors

Ear to the Ground: A Look at the ‘Bush-Obama’ Presidency

Reports: Where’s the Syria Plan?

Ear to the Ground: The Cost of America’s Wars: Felt but Unknown

Reports: Assassination as Foreign Policy

Reports: President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

Reports: The Man Who Doesn’t Want to Be President

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Shoots Down Helicopter in Afghanistan, 37 Dead

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Cartoons: U.S. Dollars for Taliban

Reports: War Is a Racket

Reports: America’s Disappeared

Ear to the Ground: A Top Aide to Karzai Is Killed

Reports: If McCain Had Won

Ear to the Ground: Magazine Publishes Full Manning-Lamo Chat Logs

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Assassination Machine

Reports: Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Ear to the Ground: Forget Congress, Alan Grayson Should Pull a Palin

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch: Prosecute the Bush War Criminals

Reports: Over There With George M. Cohan

Reports: WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Reports: Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Reconciliation Efforts Have Failed

Ear to the Ground: The Drawdown That Wasn’t

Reports: $4 Trillion for War—and Counting

Reports: Our Robotic Assassins

Reports: Get Out of Afghanistan

Reports: Obama and the Agony of Prudence

Cartoons: War and Peace

Cartoons: Afghan Withdrawal Pains

Ear to the Ground: 400,000 Brain-Injured Veterans Due Home From Afghanistan and Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Ayatollah Turns the Terrorism Tables

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Troop Timetable, Budget Breakdown, Fed Forecast

Reports: Why Does the War Go On?

Cartoons: Trapped in Afghanistan

Reports: Bad News for a Country Tired of War

Ear to the Ground: Obama Expects Three More Years of War

Ear to the Ground: Obama Expected to Announce Afghanistan Decision Wednesday

Ear to the Ground: Once Again, Obama Faces a Choice in Afghanistan

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Euro Crisis, Troop Drawdown, U.S. and Pakistan

Reports: Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

Ear to the Ground: Meet the New Face of Al-Qaida

Reports: Michele Bachmann Makes Dubya Look Good

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Afghanistan, ‘Newtiny’ and the Weiner Effect

Reports: Declare Victory—and Leave

Reports: Spare Us the Propaganda on Afghanistan

Reports: On His Way Out, Gates Talks About ‘Access’ to Asia

Cartoons: Running on Empty

Ear to the Ground: ‘Leave the Shooters Until Last,’ Gates Urges

Ear to the Ground: Obama Nearly Triples Bagram Detainee Population

Reports: War Against War: A Meditation on Bradley Manning’s Mind

Reports: Budget Problems, America? Try Ending Your Many Wars

Reports: War Is the New Normal

A/V Booth: And Now, Your Obligatory Presidential Memorial Day Speech

Ear to the Ground: General Passed Over for Giving Obama Advice

Ear to the Ground: Budget Watchdog Blames Debt Crisis on Bush Policy

Reports: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West

Reports: Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges: ‘We Speak in the Language of Terrorism’

Reports: The Death of the bin Laden Myth

Reports: What’s the GOP Without bin Laden?

Reports: New Republican Front-Runner: Herman Cain

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

Cartoons: Heroic Last Moments

Ear to the Ground: Bin Laden Holed Up in Pakistan Since 2003?

Cartoons: Graphic bin Laden Picture

Reports: A Monster of Our Own Creation

Reports: Accomplish the Mission: Bring the Troops Home

Reports: Pakistan and America: The Bad Marriage

Reports: A Fork in the Road: Where the U.S. Goes From Here

Reports: Everyone’s Missing the Point

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan and the U.S., Post-bin Laden

Reports: Chris Hedges Speaks on Osama bin Laden’s Death

Ear to the Ground: Osama bin Laden Is Dead (Updated)

Ear to the Ground: Musical Chairs at CIA and Pentagon

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges: The Truth About War

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Abandon the Anti-War Movement

Cartoons: Endless Afghans

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks’ Guantanamo Files Released

Ear to the Ground: Pulitzer Source Says New York Times Didn’t Submit WikiLeaks Reporting

Reports: What Stanley McChrystal Did to Pat Tillman’s Family

Reports: U.S.-Backed Bloodshed Stains Bahrain’s Arab Spring

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus to Head CIA?

Reports: This Is What Resistance Looks Like

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Staffers Killed in Afghan Protest

A/V Booth: Taliban 2.0? Obama Considers Arming Rebels

Reports: Unexpected Revelations in Libya Intervention

A/V Booth: Obama Addresses His Third Muslim War

Ear to the Ground: The ‘Kill Team’ Story Gets Worse

Cartoons: Don’t Forget to Wipe

Cartoons: Obama Messaging

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty to Murdering 3 Afghan Civilians

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Plans for Transfer of Control in 7 Regions

Cartoons: Give Obama a Chance

Cartoons: The Policy Bracket

Reports: Afghanistan MIA From Deficit Debate

Reports: American Ignorance Keeps American Power in Check

Cartoons: Helping Hand

Reports: Western Intervention in Libya Should Not Fly

Reports: Voting on Weapons and War

Cartoons: Addicted to the Afghan War

Cartoons: The Overthinker

Ear to the Ground: Manning Might Face the Death Penalty

Reports: The Battle of the Budgets: New Fronts in the Afghan and Iraq Wars

Reports: No Other Way Out

Ear to the Ground: Gates Warns Against Wars Like Iraq and Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Report: Army Leader Wanted to Go All ‘Psy-Ops’ on U.S. Officials

Reports: New Regimes Have Reason to Resent America

Ear to the Ground: Bloody Encounter in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Warns Taliban

Reports: Obama’s Budget: Freezing the Poor

Reports: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman

Reports: Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

Reports: What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt

Reports: Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

A/V Booth: Because It’s Time to End the Afghanistan War

A/V Booth: ‘Skateistan’ Goes to Sundance

Reports: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Democracy?

Reports: WikiLeaks Exposes the Danger of Pakistan’s Nukes

Reports: China’s Growing Military Might and American Rashness

Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

Reports: Wrong Again, Sen. Graham

Reports: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’

Reports: Raise Your Voices, Protest, Stop These Wars

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Disappearances: C’mon Guys

Reports: ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t

Reports: A Far From Happy New Year

Reports: The Game-Changer List

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Suicide Bomber Kills 43

Reports: For Biden, Mission Accomplished

Reports: Speaking Ill of ‘the Best and the Brightest’

Reports: The B-Plus President

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