Afghanistan
: Eamonn McCann After 10 years of war in Afghanistan, neither the U.S. nor British governments can point to a single significant achievement.
October 24, 2011 : Eric Ruder The Afghan government--and the NATO occupation that props it up--was shaken by the killing of Hamid Karzai's brother.
July 19, 2011 : Daphne Eviatar The author of a new report explains how Afghan men disappear into the U.S. prisons at Bagram--and don't come out for years.
June 29, 2011 : Phil Gasper As the U.S. prepared for war on Afghanistan in September 2001, Socialist Worker explained the history of a country already devastated by imperialism.
May 6, 2011 : Rory Fanning The horrific photos of U.S. soldiers posing with the dead and mutilated bodies of Afghan civilians have shocked the world.
March 28, 2011 : Helen Redmond The barring of Malalai Joya from the U.S. underlines the hypocrisy of the U.S. claim that it is liberating women in Afghanistan.
March 23, 2011 The U.S. government has denied a visa to Malalai Joya, the acclaimed antiwar and women's rights activist and former member of Afghanistan's parliament.
March 21, 2011 : Michael Skinner The conditions of Afghans living under NATO's occupation are secondary to corporate profit-seeking and the geopolitical interests of powerful states.
January 7, 2011 : Rory Fanning A soldier who did two tours of duty in Afghanistan reflects on the futile--and costly--efforts of the U.S. to "win" the war.
December 17, 2010 : Eamonn McCann A man from Quetta in Afghanistan got away with at least $100,000 after impersonating a Taliban commander in negotiations with NATO forces.
December 6, 2010 Nine years into the U.S. war in Afghanistan, thousands of air assaults and ground attacks later, and the end is...nowhere near in sight.
December 1, 2010 : Amir Bar-Lev The director of a new film about a football star who joined the military and was killed by friendly fire goes beyond the myths.
September 16, 2010 : Eric Ruder Twelve U.S. soldiers are facing trial for the horrific murder of Afghan civilians "for sport" and the cover-up that followed.
September 15, 2010 It is a lie of massive proportions to say that the war in Afghanistan ever had anything to do with protecting or liberating women and girls.
August 17, 2010 : Eamonn McCann Barack Obama may heave a sigh of relief at the lack of response to the WikiLeaks documents, but the war on Afghanistan remains a failure.
August 12, 2010 The wrenching photo on Time magazine's cover uses the issue of women's rights to justify the continued occupation of Afghanistan.
August 9, 2010 As further revelations about the brutality of the U.S. war on Afghanistan emerge, the Washington establishment is countering the truth with more lies.
August 4, 2010 U.S. officials say leaked documents about Afghanistan "put our soldiers at risk." But who sent the soldiers there in the first place?
August 3, 2010 : Nicole Colson WikiLeaks' release of thousands of documents on Afghanistan has left the Obama administration and its war partners trying to defend the indefensible.
July 29, 2010 : Nicole Colson Despite the hand wringing over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's "inappropriate" comments, the real issue is the failure of Obama's war in Afghanistan.
June 29, 2010 : Phil Aliff The U.S. military is preparing for its largest assault yet in the nine-year war--while the battlefield news gets worse by the day.
June 17, 2010 : Jeremy Scahill The U.S. military is taking bids from private contractors to ship massive amounts of equipment through Pakistan to Afghanistan.
June 10, 2010 : David Whitehouse The U.S. is hyping the success of a bloody attack on a supposed Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan and the capture of a top Taliban commander.
February 22, 2010 Students at Castro Valley High School organized to let the White House hear their opposition to the war in Afghanistan.
January 18, 2010 The British Army arrested and jailed Lance Cpl. Joe Glenton for the crime of telling the truth about the war in Afghanistan.
January 8, 2010
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