Afghanistan
: Anand Gopal An Afghanistan-based journalist looks at the fallout from the country's fraud-ridden presidential election and the likelihood of an intensified war.
November 13, 2009 : Malalai Joya An outspoken opponent of the occupation of Afghanistan, the country's puppet government and the Taliban explains why the U.S. should get out now.
November 10, 2009 : Eric Ruder Afghanistan's election farce came to a laughable end when Hamid Karzai was declared the winner after his rival dropped out of a run-off vote.
November 4, 2009 : Malalai Joya The nations that pose themselves as liberators to others will lead them into slavery--that's what we have experienced in Afghanistan and Iraq.
November 3, 2009 : Elizabeth Schulte Barack Obama--who won the votes of millions of people as a "peace candidate"--is poised to further escalate the war in Afghanistan.
October 21, 2009 : Gareth Porter The Obama administration is embroiled in a debate over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's proposal for a further escalation of troops to Afghanistan.
October 7, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill Cruise-missile liberal Jamie Rubin has seldom seen a war he didn't like, so it's no surprise that he's hitting cable shows to support escalating the war in Afghanistan.
September 23, 2009 : Dahr Jamail U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are accused of storming through a hospital in search of "insurgents"--a violation of international law.
September 21, 2009 Barack Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan has parallels with a previous U.S. war that raise the question: Is this Obama's Vietnam?
September 9, 2009 The Taliban may be the most potent resistance force in Afghanistan today, but with their current politics the left should not support them.
August 27, 2009 : Lee Sustar An election intended to showcase Afghanistan's "emerging democracy" has instead exposed astonishing corruption, fraud and violence.
August 26, 2009 : Anand Gopal The outcome of Afghanistan's presidential elections will depend on deals Hamid Karzai made with some of the country's most notorious warlords.
August 20, 2009 If anti-imperialists intend to wait around for a resistance movement that agrees with us on every issue, we'll be waiting a long time.
August 18, 2009 : Phil Aliff The once-forgotten "good war" in Afghanistan now captures headlines daily as NATO forces face intensified fighting and further instability.
June 24, 2009 : Anand Gopal The Pentagon has appointed a new general to run the war in Afghanistan, but it's still following an old strategy that is causing massive civilian casualties.
May 18, 2009 : Lee Sustar Barack Obama's meeting with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan is political cover for a military escalation on both sides of the border.
May 8, 2009 : Eamonn McCann If George Bush were the one proposing what Barack Obama did at the NATO summit, a lot of people would now be railing against him.
April 22, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill Reading a new report supporting President Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan is a reminder of how much neoliberals and neocons are alike.
April 9, 2009 : David Whitehouse Barack Obama has dropped the rhetoric about the "war on terror," but that doesn't mean he's given up on broader objectives of the 2001 invasion.
April 6, 2009 : Anand Gopal Barack Obama is continuing a troop buildup in Afghanistan begun by George W. Bush, but support for the U.S./NATO occupation is still eroding.
March 20, 2009 : Elizabeth Schulte While Barack Obama prepares to scale back the U.S. occupation of Iraq, he's ramping up the American military machine in Afghanistan.
February 25, 2009 : Anand Gopal With the Taliban displaying new strength, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is increasingly looking like the fall guy for Western failures.
February 16, 2009 : Mike Marqusee There is one sad, near certainty about 2009: the war in Afghanistan will grow bloodier, more brutal and more dangerous to the region.
January 6, 2009 : Anand Gopal Years of mismanagement, criminality and civilian casualties produced by the U.S. war have led to a resurgence of the Taliban and related groups in Afghanistan.
December 9, 2008 Rumors of possible peace talks in Afghanistan are raising hopes that the U.S. war might end. But these hopes seem based on wishes, not facts.
October 30, 2008
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