Afghanistan War Casualties

CA Leads Nation With This DARK Statistic

2012-04-30-small.png | Posted 04.30.2012

Story comes courtesy of the Center for Investigative Reporting. By G. W. Schulz When Chief Warrant Officer Nicholas Johnson’s Black Hawk helicop...

Our War in Afghanistan: Must Children Freeze to Death?

Dorian de Wind | Posted 04.10.2012

Dorian de Wind

I have expressed increased concerns about our continued "involvement" in Afghanistan. I have mourned our casualties and fretted about our huge financial costs. But -- perhaps insensitively so -- I have not mentioned much about the suffering of the Afghan people.

The Priceless Price of the Post-9/11 Decade

Anthony Gregory | Posted 11.09.2011

Anthony Gregory

As we approach the ten-year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, we are seeing lots of estimates on the costs of America's wars waged in the last decade. Yet most of them miss the big picture.

One November's Dead: The American War Dead Disappear Into the Darkness

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Engelhardt

The American dead have, it seems, like the war they are now fighting, generally gone into the dustbin of news coverage.