Tag: afghanistan

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

Ear to the Ground: Order to U.S. Troops: No Firefights Near Afghan Villagers

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Ear to the Ground: Rise in GI Alcohol Abuse Indicated

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

Ear to the Ground: Congress Funds Wars With Billions to Spare

Ear to the Ground: Violence Up—Way Up—in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Hearts and Minds Redux

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Reports: Obama’s Cairo Speech: Significant, Eloquent—and Perhaps Just the Beginning

Cartoons: Terrorist Stuff

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Official Seeks More Clarity on Civilian Deaths

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Ear to the Ground: Airstrike Rules Broken, Pentagon Finds

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Number of Private Security Contractors Increases

Reports: War Is Sin

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Denies That Prison Photos Depict Rape

A/V Booth: ‘Winter Soldier on the Hill’

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Terror Suspects Were ‘Homegrown’

Reports: War-Addicted U.S. Afflicted With Imperialist Hangover

Ear to the Ground: Report: U.S. Marine Unit Killed Hundreds of Afghan Civilians

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Ear to the Ground: Mo’ Money, Mo’ War

Reports: Cambodia Déjà Vu: the Invasion of Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Gain Ground, Color on Map

Ear to the Ground: Gates Orders a Change of Command in Afghanistan

Reports: Civilians Pay the Price of War From Above

Reports: Becoming What We Seek to Destroy

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Bank Stress, Afghani-Paki-stan; Gay Marriage

Ear to the Ground: Suicide Rates for U.S. Soldiers at Record High

Reports: Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Military Investigating Afghan Casualty Claims

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Hallmark Moment

Ear to the Ground: Obama Toes the Liberal Line

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Signals Support for Iraq During Baghdad Visit

Reports: Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam With 9/11

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Ear to the Ground: Deadliest Bomb Strikes in Months Kill 78 in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Apple Goes to War

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Ear to the Ground: AIG’s War Business Draws Criticism

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Women Protest Against—and for—‘Rape’ Law

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Cartoons: Tax for the Memories

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: Taliban, the Sequel

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Reports: The Business of War

Truthdig Podcast: The Business of War

Cartoons: Suckers

A/V Booth: Obama Pitches Afghanistan Plan at NATO Huddle

Reports: America’s ‘Long War’ Will Be as Bloody and Pointless as Europe’s

Reports: Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

Cartoons: Revised Campaign Poster

Ear to the Ground: Obama Zeroes In on Afghanistan

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Geithner’s Grand Plan; Obama’s Afghan Quagmire

Ear to the Ground: Obama to Send Even More Troops to Afghanistan

Reports: Obama’s Plan to Save the World

Ear to the Ground: Move Over, President Karzai, Here Comes Your Prime Minister

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

A/V Booth: Obama Takes Cheney to School

Ear to the Ground: Obama Looks for an ‘Exit Strategy’ in Afghanistan

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Ear to the Ground: Military Rapes Jump 9 Percent

Ear to the Ground: Saudi Woman, 75, Faces Lashing for Letting In Delivery Men

Ear to the Ground: Biden Talks Afghanistan in NATO Huddle

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Troop Shuffle Leaves Us Dizzy

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: Redistributionist, and That’s Just Fine

Cartoons: The Sports Nut

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Reports: A War Fought in Ignorance

Cartoons: Harsh Medicine

Reports: A Choice Between Peace and Peril

Reports: U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

Cartoons: The Pencil

Reports: Good News for the Taliban

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Ear to the Ground: Obama Throws 17,000 Troops at Afghanistan Mess

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Watchdog Looks Back on Years of Reconstruction Waste

Cartoons: The Peace Bus

Reports: America Faces the Music in Davos

Reports: When Did We Stop Caring About Civilian Deaths During Wartime?

Ear to the Ground: Army Suicide Rate Highest in Decades

Ear to the Ground: Gates Changes Afghanistan Tune

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Ear to the Ground: Writers Pressure Obama Over Afghanistan

A/V Booth: Introducing ... Skateistan

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

A/V Booth: ‘Mosaic’: The Inauguration, as Seen From the Middle East

Reports: The Wrong Man for the Job

Ear to the Ground: Missile Strikes Kill 20 in Pakistan

Reports: Time to Get to Work

Reports: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

A/V Booth: President Bush Signs Off

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Fails in Human Rights Role

Reports: The Afghan Scam

Reports: One for the Workers

Reports: The Language of Death

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Ear to the Ground: Amid Tensions, Pakistan Moves Troops

Reports: Gifts Worthy of Christmas

Ear to the Ground: Back to the Future: U.S. to Arm Afghan Militias

Reports: From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

Reports: Man Is a Cruel Animal

Arts and Culture: James Blight on McGeorge Bundy

Ear to the Ground: Shoes and Boos for Outgoing Bush

Ear to the Ground: America’s Afghan Thugs

Reports: Senate Panel’s Report on U.S. Torture Abuse

A/V Booth: Bush’s Legacy Untangled

Reports: West’s Role in Afghanistan Needs Re-Examining

Cartoons: The Scalpel

Reports: Keeping Track of Change

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Reports: Who Are the Afghan Insurgents?

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

Reports: Will Obama Stay the Course?

Reports: Was There Any Point to the Bloodshed in Mumbai?

A/V Booth: Gates Was ‘Hoping the Question Would Never Be Popped’

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Reports: Confronting the Terrorist Within

Reports: Afghanistan in Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Bush Speaks of Legacy

Reports: Bush’s Follies Will Destroy Obama If He Lets Them

Arts and Culture: Making Movies the Afghan Way

Ear to the Ground: 5 Guantanamo Detainees Ordered Freed

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: No More Torture

Reports: America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

Reports: No End to the Savagery in Afghanistan

Reports: How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Ear to the Ground: How Bloody Can Bush’s Legacy Be?

Reports: Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Virtual JFK: The 44th President’s Foreign Policy Challenge

A/V Booth: ‘No End in Sight’ Released in Full Online

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Court Resentences Activist

Reports: Russia’s Resentment of the West Began With a Broken Promise

A/V Booth: Colin Powell Endorses Obama

Arts and Culture: Simon Lewis on Traumatic Brain Injuries

Reports: Bush Doctrine Becomes DoD Dogma

Ear to the Ground: Hitchens Calls Palin a ‘National Disgrace’

Reports: ‘Collateral Damage’ Not Much Different From Targeted Killing

Reports: The ‘New Multilateralism’

Reports: Third-Party Blues

Reports: Obama Wins in Nashville

Reports: What McCain and Obama Just Don’t Get About Central Asia

Reports: Weapons of Mass Distraction

Ear to the Ground: British Commander Calls Taliban Unbeatable

Reports: Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Reports: Bush Favors Bankers Over Soldiers

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus: Pakistan Facing ‘Existential Threat’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Ear to the Ground: Gates Sorry, Continues Dropping Bombs

Ear to the Ground: Secret Bush Order OKs Strikes Inside Pakistan

A/V Booth: 9/11: Is the U.S. Safer Seven Years Later?

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Bhutto’s Widower Assumes Presidency in Pakistan

Cartoons: Is There a Doctor in the House or Senate?

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Bush ‘Kicking the Can Down the Road’ to Next President

Ear to the Ground: Footage of Slain Afghan Civilians Revives Inquiry Into U.S. Raid

Ear to the Ground: Al-Qaida’s No. 2 Blasts Iran

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

Reports: U.S. Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers’ ‘Suicides’?

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Sides With Afghans in Airstrike Controversy

Reports: Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire

Arts and Culture: Toby Keith Comes Out as a Democrat

Reports: India’s Role in the Afghan Drama

Ear to the Ground: ‘Surge’ Rhetoric Not Universal

Reports: Playing the Economic Card

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