Tag: iraq

Reports: Obama’s Surge in Afghanistan Hardly a Surprise

Reports: The Crushing Legacy of Bush and Cheney

Reports: Obama’s Goldilocks Strategy

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

Reports: Here We Go Again

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

Ear to the Ground: The Charge of the Light Brigade

Reports: Addicted to Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: U.K. Ambassador Details Rush to Iraq War

A/V Booth: U.N. Combats Violence Against Women, With Help From Men

Ear to the Ground: Google Goes to Iraq

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)

Reports: Lipstick on a Rogue

Reports: Hungering for a True Thanksgiving

Ear to the Ground: Somalia Tops Corruption List

Reports: The New State Solution

Ear to the Ground: U.K. Probes Alleged Abuse of Iraqis by Soldiers

Reports: Bring Them Home, Mr. President

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Reports: Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace

Reports: A Disappointing Year With Obama

Reports: When a Time Bomb Is Ticking

Ear to the Ground: Saddam Biography Makes a Splash in Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: Fort Hood Gunman Still Alive, Acted Alone

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: What Option for Afghan Women?

Ear to the Ground: Magic Bomb Wand Would Be Funny if It Didn’t Kill People

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

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

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

Ear to the Ground: Tony Blair Isn’t Conservative Enough to Be President of Europe

Cartoons: Save the Wails

Reports: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

Reports: Can’t Split the Difference in Afghanistan

Cartoons: Seeing Red

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Ear to the Ground: Baghdad Shaken by Worst Attack in Two Years

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

Reports: The Country That Cries Wolf

Reports: When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

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

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

Cartoons: Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

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

Reports: Gen. McChrystal’s Celebrity Weekend

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

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

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

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Ear to the Ground: Soldier of Conscience Survives Court-Martial, Goes Free

Reports: The War on Language

Ear to the Ground: Can America Have Too Much Cheney?

Reports: It Came From Afghanistan

Reports: Joe Wilson’s Confederate Cronies

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

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

A/V Booth: Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journo to Be Released From Jail

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Cartoons: WTC, etc.

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

Cartoons: EPCEA Now

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

Reports: Cheney Plays to His Crowd

Reports: Why We Must Stay in Afghanistan

Reports: The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Reports: Ted Kennedy’s Humanity

Reports: Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Commander ‘Frustrated’ by Training Pace in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Can’t Stop Baghdad Bombs

Reports: Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds

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

Ear to the Ground: What Do Billie Jean King and Bob Dole’s Running Mate Have in Common?

Ear to the Ground: Contractor Waste of Tax Dollars Continues

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

Ear to the Ground: Another Deadly Day in Baghdad

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

Reports: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

Reports: Playing Politics With a Ghost

Reports: Truthdig Classic: The Terror America Wrought

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Founder ‘Implicated in Murder’

Cartoons: Returning Soldiers

Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure

Ear to the Ground: GI Bill Sends Vets Back to School

Reports: Gulf War Legacy Flares as Kuwait Puts the Squeeze on Iraq

Reports: It’s Time for the U.S. to Declare Victory and Go Home

Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus

Ear to the Ground: Once Again, It’s Time to Go Home, Boys

Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Treats Refugees Like Terrorists

Ear to the Ground: Psst! We May Never Leave

Reports: Inside the Gates Arrest, Plus ‘Hurt Locker’ Review

Truthdig Podcast: Inside the Gates Arrest, Plus ‘Hurt Locker’ Review

Reports: U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan

Ear to the Ground: Army to Add 22,000 Soldiers

Reports: War Without Purpose

Reports: Opinions Walter Cronkite Never Aired

Ear to the Ground: Where Does Hillary Clinton Fit In?

Ear to the Ground: 54 Die in Post-Withdrawal Bombings

Arts and Culture: Netherlands to Return Artifacts to Iraq

Reports: McNamara’s Evil Lives On

Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?

Cartoons: 24-Week News Cycle

Reports: Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?

Reports: U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, but Unsettled Issues Remain

Ear to the Ground: 20 Killed in Kirkuk Suicide Bombing

Cartoons: The Long Goodbye

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Ear to the Ground: We’ll Always Have Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: GIs Aren’t Leaving Iraq Just Yet

Ear to the Ground: Bomb Rips Baghdad Market Ahead of U.S. Pullback

Ear to the Ground: Cheney’s Satanic Verses

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Cartoons: Promises, Promises

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

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Ear to the Ground: Hearts and Minds Redux

A/V Booth: Talking Iraq in Iraq

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’ Invades Iraq

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

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

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

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Number of Private Security Contractors Increases

A/V Booth: Democracy Now! News Highlights

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Disavows 9/11-Iraq Link

Reports: War Is Sin

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: America Is Greedy, Not Good

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

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

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Reports: Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

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

Reports: Cheney and the Iraq-Torture Link

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Soldier Guns Down 5 Comrades

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

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

Reports: British Government Gives Iraq Story a Final Spin

Ear to the Ground: One If by Land, Two If by Flee

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Joe Wilson Wants Dick Cheney to Let It All Hang Out

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Release More Torture Photos

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

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Death Toll Tops 87,000 Since 2005

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Ear to the Ground: Apple Goes to War

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

Ear to the Ground: Female Soldiers Battle Sexual Violence

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

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

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Cartoons: The War at Home

Ear to the Ground: They Don’t Build Democracies Like They Used To

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

A/V Booth: Gore Vidal: ‘The Most Interesting Man in the World’

Cartoons: Tax for the Memories

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Catches a Break

Ear to the Ground: Obama Shows the Troops Some Love

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

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on the God Debate

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

Ear to the Ground: Awakening on the Wrong Side of the Bed

A/V Booth: ‘How Did This Country Get Stuck With an Empire?’

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Reports: Newspapers’ Self-Inflicted Wounds

Reports: Obama’s Plan to Save the World

Ear to the Ground: Death Penalty Keeps U.S. in Bad Company

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Ear to the Ground: Military Rapes Jump 9 Percent

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Gets 3 Years in Prison

Reports: Was Helicopter Deal a Tool in Bush’s War Scam?

Truthdig Podcast: Was Helicopter Deal a Tool in Bush’s War Scam?

Ear to the Ground: Top U.S. General in Iraq Says U.S. Won’t Be Invited to Stick Around

Reports: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

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

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Scores a Hit With Talk-Show Diplomacy

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