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Red Snow Warning
Pink snow is turning red in Colorado. Here on the Great American Desert -- specifically Utah's slickrock portion of it where I live -- hot 'n' dry means dust. When frequent ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Measuring Success in Afghanistan
The problem was that none of the official metrics managed to measure what mattered most in Vietnam. History may not simply repeat itself, but there's good reason to look ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!
Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant ...via NewsRack -
Everything That Happens in Afghanistan Is Based on Lies or Illusions
Fixer is the best documentary I've seen on Afghanistan -- so good it's hard to imagine a better one. It's all jagged edges, blurs, and disconnects, catching as it does both ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Too Big to Fail
In nature, nothing is too big to fail. In fact, big is bound to fail. To understand why that's so means stepping away from a prevailing set of beliefs that holds us in its ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Is This Last Gasp for the Israel Lobby and the Neocons?
Is the Israel lobby in Washington an all-powerful force? Or is it, perhaps, running scared? Judging by the outcome of the Charles W. ("Chas") Freeman affair this week, it ...Posted by Marsha Iverson -
The Afghan Scam
the Bush administration perpetrated a scam. It used the system it set up to dispense reconstruction aid to both the countries it "liberated," Afghanistan and Iraq, to transfer ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Body Count Nation
Looked at another way, the Bush administration's Global War on Terror and its subsidiary wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have, in effect, been a giant Ponzi scheme. At a cost of ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Who Are the Taliban? The Afghan War Deciphered
Almost every suicide attack and kidnapping is attributed to "the Taliban." In reality, however, the insurgency is far from monolithic.Posted by Gregory Kruse -
Wrecked Iraq What the Good News from Iraq Really Means
In reality, though, since there are far fewer foreign reporters moving around a quieter Iraq, far less news is coming out of that wrecked land.Posted by Gregory Kruse
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Obama's Choice: Failed War President or the Prince of Peace?
More than 100 years after their early counterinsurgency efforts on two tiny islands in the Philippines, U.S. troops are still dying there at the hands of Muslim guerillas. ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Pox Americana
There are many possible responses to the news that we have committed more than four trillion public dollars to Wall Street. Mine is a roar of admiration. Four trillion ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Afghanistan: NATO's Graveyard?
Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, NATO is looking peaked and significantly worse for wear. Aggressive and ineffectual, the organization shows signs of premature ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Fighting against ourselves in Afghanistan
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Lost in Military Limbo
In April 2008, the Rand Corporation, a military-affiliated think-tank, released a study stating: "Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and ...Posted by John Louden -
Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire
These massive concentrations of American military power outside the United States are not needed for our defense. They are, if anything, a prime contributor to our numerous ...Posted by John Louden -
Going for Broke: Six Ways the Af-Pak War Is Expanding
General McChrystal comes from a world where killing by any means is the norm and a blanket of secrecy provides the necessary protection. For five years he commanded the ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Killing Civilians: How Safe Do You Actually Want to Be?
Like obituaries, they follow a simple pattern. Often the news initially arrives buried in summary war reports based on U.S. military (or NATO) announcements of small triumphs ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
The A.I.G. of American Foreign Policy
As Obama's economic team overseeing the various financial bailouts is made up of figures long cozy with Wall Street, so his foreign policy team is made up of figures deeply ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Welcome to Pipelineistan
The SCO has expanded its aims and scope since 2001. Today, Iran, India, and Pakistan enjoy "observer status" in an organization that increasingly aims to control and protect ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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