Tag: afghanistan
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
Cartoons: Returning Soldiers
Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure
Ear to the Ground: GI Bill Sends Vets Back to School
Ear to the Ground: Afghan Civilian Toll Rises
Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus
Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Set Gitmo Inmate Free in a Case Called an ‘Outrage’
Reports: ‘Colorful’ Leaders Could Learn From Boring Brown
Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups
Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban
Reports: U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan
Cartoons: Strip Poker
Ear to the Ground: Army to Add 22,000 Soldiers
Ear to the Ground: A New Type of Surge
Ear to the Ground: Extreme Makeover: Bagram Prison Edition
A/V Booth: Taliban Releases Video of U.S. Captive
Reports: War Without Purpose
Reports: Opinions Walter Cronkite Never Aired
Ear to the Ground: Brown Holds His Ground as Troops Die
Ear to the Ground: Explosives-Laden Truck Detonates, Kills 25 in Afghanistan
Ear to the Ground: Real Talk on Afghanistan
Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?
A/V Booth: Rep. Peter King Slams Media’s MJ Mania, Intensifies Mania in So Doing
Reports: The Battle Over the Burqa
A/V Booth: It’s Obama’s War Now
Reports: U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, but Unsettled Issues Remain
Ear to the Ground: U.S., Britain Part Company in the Poppy Fields
A/V Booth: Turning Soldiers Into Crusaders
Ear to the Ground: More Ex-Detainees Allege Abuse
Ear to the Ground: Drugs Are Sick
Ear to the Ground: Cheney’s Satanic Verses
Cartoons: Promises, Promises
Reports: Symbols Are Not Enough to Win This Battle
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