Share prices of military manufacturers vastly outperformed the stock market overall during the Afghanistan War.
Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War
Category: International
Hollywood’s Dangerous Afghan Illusion
From the Archives: A newly discovered document undercuts a key storyline of the anti-Soviet Afghan war of the 1980s that it was Charlie Wilson’s War, wrote Robert Parry on April 7, 2013.
Opening & Closing US Embassies — From Sierra Leone to Afghanistan
THE ANGRY ARAB: The Life & Mind of Edward Said
As`ad AbuKhalil says a new biography seems to introduce the reader to someone the Middle East scholar clearly was not.
Rapid Taliban Takeover Shows How Little US Understood Afghanistan
Though the Taliban may be unpopular with many Afghans at least they are Afghans and not a propped-up government under foreign occupation, writes Joe Lauria.
How War Profiteers Manufacture Consent
Governments and war profiteers fund think tank reports that mass media then pass off as news, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
JOHN PILGER: A Day in the Death of British Justice
The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.
LETTER FROM LONDON: Worrying Turn in Assange Case
The U.S. victory in court on Wednesday makes the prospects for Julian Assange at October’s appeal hearing murky at best, writes Alexander Mercouris.
US Wins Right to Appeal Health Grounds on Assange Extradition
The United States on Wednesday won the right to appeal the health grounds upon which a decision was made by a district judge in London not to extradite the WikiLeaks publisher to the United States, reports Joe Lauria.
Trade Wars Are Class Wars
Narrowing the great divides — between the rich and everyone else — will be the key to reducing new Cold War tensions, writes Sam Pizzigati.