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The US Has Held Me for 19 Years Without a Charge.by Ahmed Rabbani, 8/27/2021 In Afghanistan, the Worst Is Yet to Comeby Patrick J. Buchanan, 8/26/2021
Who Are the Islamic State in Afghanistan? Anatol Lieven, 8/26/2021 I Served in Afghanistan as a Marine. Here's the Truth.by Lucas Kunce, 8/26/2021
The Ludicrous Costs of the War in Afghanistan Revealedby Alan MacLeod, 8/26/2021 'Blood for Blood': on Jenin and Israel's Fear of an Armed Palestinian Rebellionby Ramzy Baroud, 8/26/2021
Afghanistan: America's First Step Out of Trotsky's Long Shadow?by Thomas Knapp, 8/26/2021 US Deploys Marines to Haiti Under Guise of 'Disaster Relief'by Patrick MacFarlane, 8/25/2021
$300 Million a Day for 20 Years on Unconstitutional Afghanistan War Mike Maharrey, 8/25/2021 An Old Soldier's Denial on Afghanistan Jacob G. Hornberger, 8/25/2021
The Leak That 'Exposed the True Afghan War' Elizabeth Vos, 8/25/2021 The Doomed Narcissism of Generals Petraeus and Milesby Hunter DeRensis, 8/25/2021
Iran's Suspicious 'Plot' to Kidnap a Dissident in Americaby Muhammad Sahimi, 8/25/2021 Living With Brzezinski's Messby Ted Snider, 8/25/2021
The Last Neocons on the Island Matt Purple, 8/24/2021 Dirty Secret: We Did Not Train the Afghan Army to Fight on Their Own David Kaiser, 8/24/2021
Joe Biden Was Right to Pull Out of Afghanistan Branko Marcetic, 8/24/2021 Five Ways the US Created and Prolonged the Afghan Crisis Zoltán Grossman, 8/24/2021
US Loses One Afghanistan War: Proposals for New Afghanistan Wars Multiplyby Doug Bandow, 8/24/2021 An Unsustainable and Unwinnable War Finally Endsby Daniel Larison, 8/24/2021
NYT Afghanistan a US 'Neocolonialist' War Joe Lauria, 8/23/2021 Defense Contractors Spent Big in Afghanistan Anna Massoglia & Julia Forrest, 8/23/2021
US Credibility Not Seriously Damaged by Afghanistan Failure Ted Galen Carpenter, 8/23/2021 USAID's Sam Power Hits Peak of Cynicism About ICCby Jon Schwarz, 8/23/2021
Will the Forever Wars Become Forever Policy?by Karen Greenberg, 8/23/2021 Israel's Nukes Make US Aid Illegalby Grant Smith, 8/23/2021
The Cynical Campaign to Scapegoat Joe Biden for the Afghanistan Debacleby Ted Galen Carpenter, 8/23/2021 Who's to Blame for Afghanistan? Peter Van Buren, 8/22/2021
Washington's Arrogance Survives Afghanistan Disasterby Doug Bandow, 8/22/2021 Peter Bergen Is Mistaken About bin Laden's Strategy Scott Horton, 8/22/2021
The War in Afghanistan Is Dead. Long Live the War on Terror?by Harry Blain, 8/22/2021 Failed Policymakers Have No Shame on Afghanistanby Daniel L. Davis, 8/21/2021
Sens. Probing Biden's Withdrawal Were Mum on 'Afghanistan Papers' Ben Armbruster, 8/21/2021 Three Major Networks Devoted a Full Five Minutes to Afghanistan in 2020 Jim Lobe, 8/21/2021
Taliban Stole US Weapons Because Invaded, Not Because We Left Eric Boehm, 8/21/2021 Lessons Leaders Must Learn From the Afghan Debacle Ted Galen Carpenter, 8/21/2021
Afghanistan Is the Latest War Driven by Deceit and Delusion Gordon Adams, 8/21/2021 The Crimes of the West in Afghanistan Fabian Scheidler, 8/21/2021
Hawks Scorn Endless War 'Mantra' While Pushing Endless Warby Ben Armbruster, 8/21/2021 Propaganda Onslaught, Media Ignores the Real 'Catastrophe' of Afghanistanby Michael Tracey, 8/21/2021
Afghanistan Syndrome: a Bitter End to America's Longest War Weimin Chen, 8/20/2021 Neocons Seize on Afghan Debacle to Celebrate 'War on Terror'by Philip Weiss, 8/20/2021
Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J S Davies, 8/20/2021 Biden Is Right to End the War in Afghanistanby Peter Certo, 8/20/2021
Our 20-Year Reign of Terror, Full Circleby Daniel Larison, 8/20/2021 As Kabul Is Retaken, Papers Look Back in Erasure Gregory Shupak, 8/19/2021
The Fake Image of 'Democratic' Afghanistan Made by the US Collapses With the Taliban Victoryby Muhammad Sahimi, 8/19/2021 The Afghanistan Lessons America Refused to Learn Scott Shackford, 8/19/2021
The All-American Base Worldby Patterson Deppen, 8/19/2021 After Afghanistan: Apply Obama's Simple Foreign Policy Precept, Don't Do Stupid Sh*t!by Doug Bandow, 8/19/2021
For a New Isolationism by Murray Rothbard, 4/1/59 War is the Health of the State by Randolph Bourne, 1918
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