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Carnage From the Air
Jul 9, 2007 Civilian deaths as a result of ground operations (see Haditha) often evoke cries of barbarism from the media, but the killing of innocents in airstrikes is routinely characterized as "collateral damage" and a cold fact of modern warfare. Tom Engelhardt of Tomdispatch proposes that we start to speak honestly about the devastation American military operations have rained down on Afghanistan and Iraq and see "collateral damage" for what it really is: carnage.The Great American Disconnect
Jun 11, 2007 If the Bush administration is only now considering the possibility of a South Korea-style military presence in Iraq, then why has it been building permanent bases since the start of the occupation?
The Two Phenomena Transforming the Climate Conversation
Jan 27, 2020 We finally see a spark of global acknowledgement about the urgency of the crisis, thanks to Greta Thunberg and Australia's fires.
Humanity Is Committing Collective Suicide
Apr 28, 2019 Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision to commit self-harm on a mass scale.
The American War Machine Is Out of Control
Apr 15, 2019 From Somalia to Syria, U.S. wars are off the charts. With the 2020 election around the corner, there might be yet another war on the horizon.
Solving the Border and China Problems in One Swell Foop
Mar 5, 2019 We have two intractable issues, one intractable president and an intractable world, but what if that weren’t so?
The U.S. Is Paying for What It Did to Russia in Afghanistan
Jan 27, 2019 Trump is right: Russia’s Afghan misadventure is a remarkably logical place to start when considering the present U.S. debacle there.
A Planet Boiling With Unintended Consequences
Mar 4, 2018 To get a picture of “blowback” in action, just do an internet search for such phrases as “warmest years,” “rising sea levels” and “future climate refugees."
Send In the Clowns
Jan 27, 2018 If you’re still convinced that James Mattis, H.R. McMaster and James Kelly are the “adults” in the Trumpian playroom, check out Afghanistan and think again.
Seeing Our Wars for the First Time
Jan 6, 2018 More than a decade and a half after an American president spoke of 60 or more countries as potential targets, we finally have a visual representation of the true extent of the war on terror.
Start Caring in 2018
Dec 23, 2017 It’s up to us to protest, resist, change, communicate and convince, to fight for life rather than its destruction in the age of Trump.