The premier establishment newspaper is allowing discussion of the folly of imperialist war, writes Joe Lauria.
Richard W. Began says it is perverse to chastise Biden for a messy ending of the war in Afghanistan and fail to indict George Bush for its illegal beginning.
Fabian Scheidler says so much suffering — including Assange’s imprisonment for exposing war criminals — buries the idea of “humanitarian intervention.”
A globe-spanning power structure loosely centralized around the U.S. orchestrates murder at mass scale to ensure perpetual domination. Caitlin Johnstone says it’s that simple.
The U.S. capacity for official lying has struck once again, as it has repeatedly for the last 60 years, writes Gordon Adams.
As long as this current count of 750 military bases in 81 places remains a reality, so, too, will U.S. wars, writes Patterson Deppen.
Vijay Prashad recalls the obliterations of U.S. interventionism, including any memory of the women’s rights leaders who were active in Afghanistan before 2001.
Editor Joe Lauria spoke to Politurco about developments in Afghanistan and Turkey’s role there.
Downgrades and the fear of them prevent much-needed public spending during the pandemic, writes Ramya Vijaya.
Successive U.S. administrations understand that stirring the pot of extremism gives them endless excuses to occupy other countries, writes T.J. Coles.
Washington spent more than $2 trillion on a war that it knew could not be won, writes Vijay Prashad.
Ann Wright says her home state should not agree to a re-leasing, no matter the amount that is offered.
Share prices of military manufacturers vastly outperformed the stock market overall during the Afghanistan War.
If top U.S. corporate execs are still pocketing jackpots a decade from now, our environment has no shot, writes Sam Pizzigati.
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.
As`ad AbuKhalil says a new biography seems to introduce the reader to someone the Middle East scholar clearly was not.
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.
Governments and war profiteers fund think tank reports that mass media then pass off as news, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
