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Our Own Worst Enemy

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | Apr 20, 2012

The brazen terrorist assault on Kabul on April 16 was the biggest attack on the Afghan capital in the last decade. For some 18 hours, strategically perched Taliban militants linked to the Haqqani network fired on government buildings, embassies, and foreign military bases. A total of 51 people died, including 36 militants. Some 74 were wounded in Kabul along with three neighboring provinces where government and military targets came under synchronized attack.

Don’t “Cover the Night”: Enlighten Youth Instead

by Emily Norton | Apr 20, 2012

KONY 2012 only contributes to the normalization of military interventionism as the solution to all ills.

The Afghan Syndrome

by Tom Engelhardt | Apr 19, 2012

Take off your hat. Taps is playing. Almost four decades late, the Vietnam War and its post-war spawn, the Vietnam Syndrome, are finally heading for their American grave. It may qualify as the longest attempted burial in history. Last words — both eulogies and curses — have been offered too many times to mention, and yet no American administration found the silver bullet that would put that war away for keeps.

Are Nuclear Weapons Really a “Big Sin” to Iran’s Supreme Leader?

by Russ Wellen | Apr 19, 2012

Whether or not Ayatollah Khameini considers nuclear weapons haram shouldn’t be a determining factor in negotiations with Tehran.

Negative Nostalgia: Nuclear-Weapons Labs a Throwback to Cold War

by Mia Steinle | Apr 19, 2012

Even the Department of Defense has had enough of the Department of Energy’s refusal to downsize its nuclear-weapons laboratories.

Remembering Israel’s West Bank Offensive

by Stephen Zunes | Apr 18, 2012

Ten years ago this month, following a particularly deadly series of Palestinian terrorist attacks, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched an assault on several Palestinian cities and refugee camps in the West Bank. The Bush administration largely supported the Israeli offensive, even as hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands of young men were detained without charge amid widespread reports of torture.

Death and Taxes

by John Feffer | Apr 18, 2012

Military spending combines the two certainties in life: death and taxes. U.S. taxpayers are paying more than anyone else on Earth to support an industry devoted to death.

Iran Errata: Israel “Tunes up” Iran for U.S.

by Russ Wellen | Apr 17, 2012

Israel insists that Fordow, Iran’s nuclear-enrichment facility, remain vulnerable to attack.

North Korea’s Failed Fireworks

by John Feffer | Apr 17, 2012

In early February, Iran launched its third successful commercial satellite in three years. The Barack Obama administration, the United Nations, and the news media barely acknowledged the accomplishment. North Korea, on the other hand, has created a furor each of the three times its satellites failed to reach orbit.

U.S. Thinking on Afghanistan Is Not Just Magical, But Hallucinatory

by Conn Hallinan | Apr 17, 2012

The Taliban shut down preliminary talks with Washington, because, according to its spokesman, the Americans were “shaky, erratic and vague.”