Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks
Why did the senior State Department representative resign from his Afghanistan post? The full interview.
Dec 17, 2010 / Barbara Koeppel
How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan
Our war has radicalized Pakistanis, turning many against the West and their own government.
Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Anatol Lieven
Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks
Why did the senior State Department representative resign from his Afghanistan post?
Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Barbara Koeppel
Tossing the Afghan COIN Tossing the Afghan COIN
The US military's reinvented counterinsurgency turns out to be the same old brutal game.
Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Michael A. Cohen
Afghan Review: ‘Lookin’ Good,’ Says Obama Afghan Review: ‘Lookin’ Good,’ Says Obama
It's mostly spin, not substance, and the real fight over what to do in Afghanistan will come early next spring.
Dec 16, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Flood of Drone Strikes A Flood of Drone Strikes
What the WikiLeaks revelations tell us about how Washington runs Pakistan.
Dec 9, 2010 / Fatima Bhutto
Epitaph From the Imperial Graveyard Epitaph From the Imperial Graveyard
Under Obama, the American war dead have, it seems, like the war they are now fighting, generally gone into the dustbin of news coverage.
Dec 7, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Domestic and global trends suggest that in 2025, just 15 years from now, the American century could all be over except for the shouting.
Dec 6, 2010 / Alfred W. McCoy
Greg Mitchell And Chris Hayes Examine the WikiLeaks Outrage Greg Mitchell And Chris Hayes Examine the WikiLeaks Outrage
On MSNBC's Countdown, Greg Mitchell and Chris Hayes ask, has WikiLeaks' Julian Assange really endangered lives?
Dec 3, 2010 / Press Room
Iraq As American Ally in 2012? Dream On, Brookings Iraq As American Ally in 2012? Dream On, Brookings
A think-tank task forces tells Iraq: let our troops stay indefinitely, or we'll take all our marbles and go home.
Dec 3, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss