Unfinished Portraits: Iraq and Afghanistan
My anti-war memorial attempts to bring audiences face-to-face with the human costs of the US-led invasions and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan—to make the numbers of the dead, and dying, more...
View ArticleCounterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target: Empire...
While the American Empire – and much of the policies being pursued – did not begin under President Obama, the focus of “Empire Under Obama” is to bring awareness about the nature of empire to those...
View ArticleKarzai slams Pak over terrorism
Questions cleric's interview backing suicide blasts Added At: 2013-03-04 11:07 PM Last Updated At: 2013-03-04 11:07 PM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) The headlines has been added to your...
View ArticleKarzai lashes out at Pakistan over ''suicide bombing'' statement by cleric
March 05: Islamabad, Mar. 5 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has lashed out once again at Pakistan, saying that a statement by a Pakistani cleric endorsing suicide bombings in Afghanistan shows...
View ArticleThe Depressing ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
When I watched the get-bin-Laden movie Zero Dark Thirty at a theater just outside Washington D.C., I was struck by how silent the audience was from beginning to end with almost no reaction to the...
View Article'Sunday in the Park' puts musical spin on work of art
The 2011-12 season at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis opened in an artist's studio with "Red," John Logan's drama about abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. Its latest production, "Sunday in the...
View ArticleDebacle!
How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would...
View ArticleLosing Their Grip in Afghanistan
Now in its eleventh year, the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan is reeling from crisis to crisis. The U.S. government has spent nearly $600 billion on the war, yet the Taliban insurgency is unbowed....
View ArticleKabul in grief after Ashoura shrine blast
- "In the name of the martyrs of Karbala," repeats an elderly woman with each step she takes, moving from one fresh grave to the next. Under her black shawl of grief, she crouches, cups her hands in...
View ArticleOn to the Next War!
Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) want war with Iran and refuse to learn lessons from the futile wars this country has perpetrated since US troops landed in Korea in 1950. They...
View ArticleKarzai lashes out at Pakistan over 'suicide bombing' statement by cleric
Tweet Islamabad, Mar. 5 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has lashed out once again at Pakistan, saying that a statement by a Pakistani cleric endorsing suicide bombings in Afghanistan shows that...
View ArticleAfghanistan says Pakistan putting conditions on Taliban peace effort,...
FILE- This May 16, 2012 file photo shows Afghan National Army soldier Mohammed Zaman lining up with other soldiers prior to a patrol in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. A small love poem to his...
View ArticleA Little Unfinished Business
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 2:39 pm Column: Sherwood Ross A Little Unfinished Business By March 22, 2012 If President Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq based on lies and deception, please explain why the...
View ArticlePlay puts musical spin on work of art
The 2011-12 season at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis opened in an artist's studio with "Red," John Logan's drama about abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. Its latest production, "Sunday in the...
View ArticleAfghan president lashes out at Pakistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out once again at his supposed ally, Pakistan, saying Monday that a statement by a Pakistani cleric endorsing suicide bombings in...
View ArticleGunfire, Possible Explosion Hits Kabul Building Thought To House CIA
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A building used by the CIA in Kabul came under attack Sunday, U.S. and Afghan officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital. Afghan authorities said...
View ArticleAriana Hotel Attacked: Kabul CIA Station Hit By Gunfire
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A building used by the CIA in Kabul came under attack Sunday, U.S. and Afghan officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital. Afghan authorities said...
View ArticleLessons from Lost Wars in 2012
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way. And then, of course, it wasn’t....
View ArticleDoubling Down on a Debacle
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way. And then, of course, it wasn’t....
View ArticleCasualty Comprehension
A casualty traditionally refers to anyone wounded or killed in combat, but this term doesn’t articulate the variety of war’s victims. In addition to premature death and mangled bodies, casualties...
View ArticleThe Afghan Curtain Falls More Rapidly
The recent “unpleasantness” in Afghanistan — the killing spree by a U.S. soldier, the burning of Qurans, and desecration of Taliban corpses — has made the quagmire there even more unpopular with the...
View ArticleIraq: 100 Days of Solidarity
This week marks the beginning of what is supposed to be the final 100 days of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. But if U.S. troops are to leave Iraq at the end of this year as promised -- repeatedly -- it...
View ArticleAfghan insurgents post propaganda videos on latest attacks
KABUL, Afghanistan Videos and pictures that the Taliban have posted online purportedly show the insurgents who staged this week's attacks in Kabul and three provinces, with two fighters declaring that...
View ArticleHow Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global...
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way. And then, of course, it wasn’t....
View ArticleGen. Hayden discusses Bin Laden hunt at spy conference
- The (Raleigh) News & Observer Share E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name tool goes here 0 comments Similar stories: " tooltipId="mi_tt1"> Congressman feuds with administration over movie...
View ArticleAfghanistan warns Pakistan about border fighting
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan defense officials warned Pakistan on Sunday to stop firing rockets and heavy artillery into the northeast of the country or the military will respond with force....
View ArticleMan in Search of Humanity: Lessons from the Bogus Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan...
“….Human nature is at least in part wicked and in part foolish, how can human beings be prevented from suffering from the results of their wickedness and folly? ….Men simply do not see that war is...
View ArticleInsurgents attack US Embassy in Afghan captital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban insurgents launched a coordinated attack Tuesday on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in the heart of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled...
View ArticleNATO: Afghan bombing kills 5 troops, 8 contractors
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says the 13 people killed when a suicide bomber rammed a military convoy in Kabul included five coalition troops and eight civilian contractors. NATO initially reported...
View ArticleAfghan war anniversary draws attack on US outposts
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber and rocket fire struck U.S.-run outposts near the Pakistani border as the war in Afghanistan hit the 10-year mark Friday. The Afghan president said there will be...
View ArticleUS ambassador: Haqqani group behind Kabul attack
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan says the Pakistani-based Haqqani network is behind the coordinated attack against the American Embassy and NATO headquarters in the heart...
View ArticleThe American System of Suffering, 1965-2014
In late December 2001, not long after Washington’s second Afghan War began, there was that wedding celebration in eastern Afghanistan in which 110 of 112 villagers were reportedly killed by American...
View ArticleHow Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East
In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face of the...
View ArticleKabul hosts Muslim scholars meet
- Hundreds of Islamic scholars from across the Muslim-majority gathered in Kabul on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. The International Conference of Islamic Scholars and Peace...
View ArticleSometimes, Bad-Tasting Medicine Needs to Be Swallowed
Like a mother forcing her children to take bad-tasting medicine for their own good, disgruntled American “allies” have recently compelled the financially ailing U.S. superpower to scale back meddling...
View ArticleAfghan in army uniform kills NATO service member
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot and killed a NATO service member, the international military coalition said Wednesday, the latest in a rising number of similar...
View ArticleBuilding used by CIA attacked in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan — A building used by the CIA in Kabul came under attack Sunday, U.S. and Afghan officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital. An Afghan police officer and...
View ArticlePakistan army 'pleaded with Nato' to stop strikes that killed 24 troops
The US-led airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers lasted two hours and continued even after commanders pleaded with coalition forces to stop, army chiefs said today. Nato described the deaths on...
View ArticleRadiant points of departure
When Georges Seurat unveiled his huge painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte in Paris in 1886, he shocked the Parisian art scene to its core. Instead of mixing colours on the palette or the canvas,...
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