Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War August 17, 2021 Share prices of military manufacturers vastly outperformed the stock market overall during the Afghanistan War. Read more →
Opening & Closing US Embassies — From Sierra Leone to Afghanistan August 16, 2021 Ann Wright says memories in Afghanistan are long and retaliation is a given. Read more →
Rapid Taliban Takeover Shows How Little US Understood Afghanistan August 15, 2021 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. Read more →
Chris Hedges: US Collective Suicide July 28, 2021 The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable. Read more →
AFGHANISTAN: Goodbye for Good to a War That Shouldn’t Have Been Fought July 19, 2021 Danny Sjursen takes aim at powerful Washingtonian hawks who are trying to push the U.S. back for a third time into Afghanistan. Read more →
A Kinder, Gentler US Empire Is Not Possible June 13, 2021 Caitlin Johnstone responds to the latest rebuke of progressive House member Ilhan Omar by members of her own party. Read more →
THE ANGRY ARAB: US Defeat in Afghanistan — A Contrast With the Soviet Experience May 13, 2021 As`ad AbuKhalil says Western media never regarded the U.S. involvement for what it really was. Read more →
The True Meaning of the Afghan ‘Withdrawal’ May 7, 2021 Alfred W. McCoy says victory is no longer in the American bloodstream. Read more →
The Graveyard of Empires Redux April 26, 2021 Rajan Menon reflects on America’s ruinous pursuit of Mission Impossible in Afghanistan. Read more →
Biden Pursues Trump’s Cuba Policy April 23, 2021 In Cuba there are serious people who recognize the problems but are not overwhelmed by them, writes Vijay Prashad. Read more →