Tag: afghanistan

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s Undoing?; Tiger’s Foul Play

Reports: Why Obama’s Strategy Won’t Succeed

Reports: Obama’s Surge in Afghanistan Hardly a Surprise

Reports: The Crushing Legacy of Bush and Cheney

Reports: Obama’s Goldilocks Strategy

A/V Booth: Good Grief, Barack Obama!

Reports: We ‘Support’ the Troops by Burdening Them More

A/V Booth: Friedman, Stewart Critique Obama’s Afghanistan Plan

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: West Point Hangover Edition

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Obama Answers to GI Joe

Reports: Here We Go Again

A/V Booth: Obama Makes It Official: 30,000 More U.S. Troops to Head to Afghanistan

Reports: Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy

Truthdig Podcast: Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy

Cartoons: Finishing the Job

Cartoons: Good Luck

Ear to the Ground: Rep. Dennis Kucinich Addresses Escalation in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Afghan Surge Edition

Ear to the Ground: The Audacity of Obama’s Hopeful Exit Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Michael Moore to Obama: ‘Say It Isn’t So’

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Cyber Monday Edition

Ear to the Ground: The Charge of the Light Brigade

Reports: Addicted to Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Catch Up on the News With Larry’s List: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

Cartoons: Peace Removement

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Still Running Secret Jails

Ear to the Ground: Top German Soldier Quits Over Cover-Up

Reports: Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’

Ear to the Ground: Report: Obama to Expand Afghan War by 50 Percent

Reports: Delay Worked for Kennedy

Reports: Books, Not Bombs

Ear to the Ground: Obama Hints at ‘Comprehensive’ Afghanistan Plan

Reports: Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan

Reports: Battlefield in the War of Ideas

Reports: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

Reports: The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Signals a ‘Critical Moment’ for Afghanistan

Reports: Hungering for a True Thanksgiving

Ear to the Ground: Somalia Tops Corruption List

Reports: The New State Solution

Reports: Haunted by Gorbachev’s Ghost

Reports: War in Afghanistan: Not in Our Name

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: 9/11 Trial; Obama’s Afghani-Standoff

Reports: Bring Them Home, Mr. President

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Cartoons: In a Hole

Reports: Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Rains on Surge Parade

Reports: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount

Reports: A Disappointing Year With Obama

Reports: When a Time Bomb Is Ticking

Cartoons: General Erection

Reports: Afghanistan’s Sham Army

Reports: America Performs Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator

Reports: Happy Birthday, Pat Tillman

Reports: Sen. George McGovern on the Presidency From Lincoln to Obama

Ear to the Ground: Twelve Dead, 31 Wounded in Shooting at U.S. Army Base

Ear to the Ground: More Money for War, Through the Back Door

Reports: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: What Option for Afghan Women?

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Told to Fight Corruption; Abdullah Supporters Told to Keep It Civil

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

Reports: Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy

Reports: Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Truthdig Podcast: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Ear to the Ground: Europe Balks at Sending More Troops to Afghanistan

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: Without an Opponent, Karzai Declared Winner

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

A/V Booth: Obama Will Deal With Karzai

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: Afghan Poppy Trade Blurs All the Lines

Reports: When the Tough Should Get Going

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Target U.N. Workers in Deadly Kabul Attack

Reports: Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People

Reports: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

Reports: Can’t Split the Difference in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Karzai, Abdullah at Odds About Afghan Election Official

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

A/V Booth: Afghanistan: Fraud, Opium and Taliban

Ear to the Ground: Bush Says He Regrets Standing in Front of ‘Mission Impossible’ Banner

Reports: The Country That Cries Wolf

A/V Booth: Afghanistan Prepares for Election Runoff

Reports: Turkish Cooperation—and Coffee—in Short Supply for Israel

Cartoons: When You’re Smiling

Ear to the Ground: Six Dead, 18 Hurt in Pakistan University Bombing

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Gives In, Agrees to Runoff

Cartoons: Purple Finger

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Holds Up on Sending Troops

Ear to the Ground: Political Crisis Brews in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Getting Speedy Military Aid Delivery From Pentagon

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Reports: A Nobel for Defeating Cheneyism

Reports: Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country

Cartoons: Prize for Hope [A Cartoon From Austria]

Reports: Why Do Conservatives Hate America?

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Goes to War

Ear to the Ground: Over 40 Killed in Yet Another Pakistan Attack

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Official Sees ‘Widespread Fraud’ in Afghan Election

Reports: He’s Earned It—for Now

Cartoons: Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Cartoons: The Fight

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Calls for Reinforcements in Afghanistan

A/V Booth: Moore and Hannity Debate ‘Capitalism,’ Terrorism, Conspiracy Theories

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Taliban Say They Have No International Agenda

Reports: A War of Absurdity

Reports: Gen. McChrystal’s Celebrity Weekend

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal Draws Support, Scorn on Capitol Hill

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

Ear to the Ground: Team Obama Split on Afghanistan Question

Reports: Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

Reports: Pox Americana: The Real Cost of Bailing Out Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Ex-U.N. Official Slams Afghan Elections

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Jobs, Health, War, Sex!

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Ear to the Ground: ‘Spiraling Increases’ in Afghan Police Deaths

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: In Europe, the Left Has Run Out of Gas

Ear to the Ground: Obama Meets With NATO Chief on Afghan Strategy

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal to Send Troop Request by Week’s End

Cartoons: Pre-Existing Petition

Cartoons: Feeding the Empire

Reports: Saving the Obama Revolution

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Puts a Hold on Troop Increase Request

Reports: It Came From Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: White House: No News (Yet) on Afghanistan Strategy

Cartoons: Following in Your Tank Tracks [A Cartoon From China]

A/V Booth: Obama on Racist Rhetoric, Health Care Craziness and Rude News

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal’s Report Could Change Obama’s Afghanistan Plan

Ear to the Ground: Yet Another Reason Why War in Afghanistan Is a Bad Idea

Reports: All U.S. Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own—and Obama Has His

Ear to the Ground: Over 1M Afghan Election Votes May Be Fraudulent

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Ear to the Ground: Top Admiral Says U.S. May Need More Troops in Afghanistan

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Ear to the Ground: The Human Costs of War

A/V Booth: Whither Obamacare?; Pelosi Says No on Afghanistan; 9/11 Remembered

Cartoons: WTC, etc.

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sees Little Support for Troop Deployments

Arts and Culture: Afghan Indiana Jones Hunts Giant Buddha

Cartoons: The Revelation

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Ear to the Ground: Getting a Read on Afghanistan

Reports: A 9/11 Reality Check

Ear to the Ground: Afghans React to Vote Fraud

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Closes In, but U.N. Orders Recounts

Ear to the Ground: Karzai: Fraud Happens in a Young Democracy

Cartoons: EPCEA Now

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Jobless Labor Day, Afghan Plans, Obamacare

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Strike Kills 90

Reports: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

Cartoons: Good Old Days

Ear to the Ground: Kabul Contractor Parties Aren’t the Half of It

Reports: Cheney Plays to His Crowd

Ear to the Ground: State Department Probes Embassy Guards’ Parties in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Intelligence Chief Among 23 Killed in Taliban Suicide Attack

Reports: Obama’s Meaningless War

Reports: Will Japan’s New Leader Maintain His Country’s Fealty to Washington?

Reports: Why We Must Stay in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Top U.S. General Calls for Strategy Change in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough

Ear to the Ground: Losing the War of Ideas

A/V Booth: Afghan Investigation, Kennedy Consideration, Health Care Prognostication

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Death Toll in Afghanistan Hits a Grim Record

Reports: The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

Ear to the Ground: Report: U.S. Envoy and Afghan President in Election Meltdown

Reports: Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War

Ear to the Ground: Freed Afghan Says He Was Sent to Gitmo at 12

Ear to the Ground: Yet Another Blast Shakes Kandahar

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Is the Winner, According to Key Karzai Cabinet Member

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Election Dogged by Fraud Claims

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Afghan Election, Blackwater’s Role

Reports: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Reports: Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan

Truthdig Podcast: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Ear to the Ground: Polls Close in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Afghan News Outlets to Be Censored on Election Day

Ear to the Ground: Report: Pre-Election Corruption Crops Up in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Surge Limited by ‘Dwell Time’

Cartoons: 100 Percent Hamidity

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Issues Threat Before Afghan Election

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Troops on Midnight Train to Georgia

Ear to the Ground: New Afghan Law Castrates Women’s Rights

Reports: How Bad Things Might Have Been

Ear to the Ground: Contractor Waste of Tax Dollars Continues

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 1

Reports: There’s a Solution in Afghanistan—but Not the Way We’re Headed

Ear to the Ground: Top General Denies Saying Taliban Is Winning

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Targets Afghan Drug Suspects for Killing

Reports: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

Ear to the Ground: Counterterrorism Chief Says Bullets Alone Won’t Do the Job

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