Latest Afghanistan
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Hakim: Nonviolent Afghans Bring a Breath of Fresh Air
War is not inevitable. It is an obsolete, repetitive choice. Everywhere, each of us can emulate these new-generation Afghans by ushering in breaths of fresh air
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Swanson: 17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong
Despite war famously being the means of Americans learning geography, few can even identify Afghanistan on a map. What else have we failed to learn?
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They aren’t rewarded with the titanic achievement of having shaped and ruined a country, but instead with purposeful intent to stop the vicious cycle of war and resist the cruel hierarchies attempting to prevail
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I hope those walking for peace, working for equality, and imploring a different way forward can be heard and celebrated not only in Afghanistan, but in every country
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Ongoing battles between militants, government forces, and international allies have destroyed much of Kabul’s water infrastructure, forcing people to drill their own wells
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Prashad: America Recedes from Dominance in Afghanistan and Iraq
A women’s rights advocate and the journalist who threw his shoe at George W. Bush are among the leaders defining Iraq’s political future
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Young: Where on Earth is the Just Economy?
Afghan children who help carry the brunt of this poverty understand the complicity of all in this GDP charade, not through numbers, but through daily labour and universal conscience
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Kelly: Teen Solidarity Against the Merchants of Death
The outrage now directed toward the National Rifle Association should also challenge all assaults made by the U.S. military
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Hannaford-Ricardi: The Kids the World Forgot
They inhabit a world that delights in tripping them up and watching them fall. They are Kabul’s Street Kids
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Hannaford-Ricardi: Death at the Gate
In the border-free world envisioned by the Afghan Peace Volunteers, we are all citizens of Afghanistan. We cannot let the noose be tightened any further
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The comfortable nations often authorize the worst atrocities overseas through fear for their own safety, imagining themselves the victims to be protected from crime at all costs. Such attitudes entitle people in Iraq
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Cohn: War Crimes Investigation?
In what Amnesty International's Solomon Sacco called a "seminal moment for the ICC," Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked the court for authorization to commence an investigation that would focus on US military and CIA leaders
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I feel deeply moved by the commitment my young friends have made to reject wars and dominance, preferring instead to live simply, share resources, and help protect the environment
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Podur: A New Bad Turn in Afghanistan
The return of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Butcher of Kabul, is the latest symbol of the country's destruction
ZMag Afghanistan
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As the “war on terror” generation comes of age, their status quo is perpetual war, a complete brainwashing that war is inevitable
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Shawcross: “All We are Saying”
In a recent New York Times survey only 36 percent of U.S. adults could correctly locate North Korea on an unlabelled map. Yet according to a recent poll (Chicago Council on Global Affairs) 75 percent of Americans believe that North Korea’s nuclear program is a critical threat to the United States.
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Boardman: In Afghanistan: America’s Longest War Will Never Be Won
The U.S., in the person of General Nicholson, chose to use the weapon with the media-friendly nickname “mother of all bombs,” which of course it isn’t at all, though it does serve very well as a good, shiny-object distraction for the media.
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Pimentel: The Billion-Dollar World Bank Experiment in Afghanistan
Discerning the ethical side of the World Bank’s research in Afghanistan is not small potatoes.
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Koehler: The Moral Rabbit Hole
The New York Times reported recently that U.S. soldiers still fighting the war in Afghanistan—14 years on—are under orders to be “culturally sensitive”
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Herman: More Nuggets From the Nuthouse
I’ve long been intrigued by the ways in which neo-liberal class warfare is normalized and even made to seem an advance in social welfare.
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Herman: After All We Did For Them in Fallujah!
any sensible person should recognize that a U.S. leadership that stands firmly with Saudi Arabia, and had earlier supported Saddam Hussein when he was attacking Iran, couldn’t be expending resources for any democratic objective
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Bonds: The Wastes of War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Journalists have described how the fumes from burning trash settled over the Ballad air base like fog, and how soldiers would try to filter out some of the pollution by placing wet towels over air-conditioning intakes at night, which would turn black by the morning.
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Kennelly: The Unspeakable in Afghanistan
Two thousand fourteen, marks the deadliest year in Afghanistan...
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Ruff: Operation Enduring America
The U.S. I Central Asia after Afghanistan?
Afghanistan Video
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Bennis: The War in Afghanistan
Trump's plans to extend the war he once supported ending are even more worrisome for their lack of transparency
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Hoh: Trump’s New Afghanistan Strategy
Windfall for the Military-Industrial Complex
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Podur: Waiting for 2014 in Afghanistan
An 11-minute mini-documentary about Afghanistan's perils and prospects. Filmed in...
Afghanistan Audio
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Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould discuss the United States’ outmoded...
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Fitzgerald: Understanding Afghanistan
Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald are the authors of Invisible...
