"What you mean 'we,' kemosabe?"; Pakistani anti-American attitudes and their implications
In a classic Mad Magazine cartoon (that I dimly recall), the Lone Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by a horde of hostile Indian warriors. The Lone Ran...
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Even the Taliban Supports Local Radio
Today, most of the world lives in information poverty. But with the rapid rise of cell phone technology and information equity, the world will transform.
Afghanistan: A True Alternative
The US must abandon the illusions that American well-being depends on shaping the affairs of other places wherever something happens that discomforts us; and that people in those places want us to take custody of their well-being.
Four Obama Mistakes That Could Turn His Cheers into Jeers
A year from now voters and the media will take stock of President Obama's mid-term performance. When they do four things will leap out as major Oba...
Biggest State Party to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan
While Obama weighs Afghanistan policy options, the California Democratic Party's adoption of the resolution is the most tangible indicator yet that escalation of the U.S. war effort can only fuel opposition within the president's own party.
Why the Afghan Surge Will Fail
McChrystal argues that the current situation is "critical," and that an escalation "will be decisive." But as former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst A.J. Rossmiller says, the war is a stalemate.
From Wall Street to Neverland: The Year America Didn't Sleep
The public health burden of insomnia on the US is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars. While we routinely cut calories, or cram in exercise, sleep has not even entered the conversational lexicon.
Obama's War and Remembrance Day
It is, I would suggest, time for progressives to start searching for a serious, gutsy, plain-speaking candidate to challenge Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2012.
Get Out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Turner tells CU Audience
"I became a peacenik," Ted Turner says, because when he was running CNN and the U.S. started bombing people around the world, they were "bombing my customers."
New Tools for Peace in Afghanistan
Development and humanitarian assistance can no longer be an afterthought; they must be central to any strategy the U.S. government puts forward in Afghanistan.
Afghan Escalation Would Make One-Year Pentagon Budget Almost As Big as Entire 10-Year Health Bill
Only in Washington is a big return on taxpayer investment and a $109 billion reduction in the deficit an example of something that's "costly" to taxpayers.
While Obama Deliberates, Illinois Grad Employees Strike for Education Security
Regardless of what the federal government does, University of Illinois administrators still have a moral responsibility not to balance the budget on the backs of the weak.
The Importance of 'Democracy Promotion'
The overly enthusiastic embrace of "democracy promotion" by the Bush administration could have smothered that phrase for years to come. But fortunately, Obama has resisted temptations to abandon it.
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Obama's Dilemma: Prison Corruption a Symptom of How Sick We Are in Afghanistan
Amid the near-constant speculation over President Barack Obama's strategy for Afghanistan, there appears to be virtually universal consensus that root...
"A Soldier is A Terrible Thing to Waste"
In word-wise America, "sacrifice" has triumphed as the socially polite term for referring to the thousands of American lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no end in sight.
Friday Talking Points [101] -- Count Me With The Misfits
Whether or not Harry Reid ever gets his act together, the achievement of Nancy Pelosi getting healthcare reform legislation should stand on its own as an admirable political achievement.
What Obama Wants in Afghanistan -- and What Women Need
As the administration ponders the very real possibility of becoming the newest addition to the "graveyard of empires", there is one aspect of Afghan society everyone seems to have forgotten: the women.
"War Kills Off Great Reform Movements"
Mr. President: As you consider whether to march further into the trap of Afghanistan, please don't forget the memorable phrase that E. J. Dionne rece...
Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith
Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan
Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain R...
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