Evidence of a Failed Mission
WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary just fills in details of what we already knew: The Afghanistan War is too costly to continue.
Plugging WikiLeaks
It’s time to call the Military-Industrial Complex Plumbing Co.
The Opposite Game: All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
Have you ever thought about just how strange this country’s version of normal truly is? Let me make my point with a single, hardly noticed Washington Post news story that’s been on my mind for a while. It represents the sort of reporting that, in our world, zips by with next to no reaction, despite the true weirdness buried in it.
The WikiLeaks Documents Are NOT the Pentagon Papers 2.0
One reason the leak will not become Pentagon Papers 2.0 is that the contents tend to confirm, rather than contradict, news about Afghanistan.
Conceding Failure of Pentagon Papers Critical to WikiLeaks’ Success Ending War
The Vietnam War lasted four more years after the release of the Pentagon Papers.
Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary
Reactions to the documents have been mixed, but it’s clear that they provide an important, revealing account of the cover-ups, corruption, and needless deaths that mark this aimless war.
The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary: More Evidence of a Failed Mission
The leaks just fill in details of what we already knew: that the Afghan War is too costly to continue.
Wikileaks Releases ‘Afghan War Diary’
With this latest bright spotlight illuminating shortcomings of the past, Obama ought to direct the resulting buzz toward changing the war’s present futile trajectory.
Statement from Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project
The Institute’s Middle East expert issues a statement on the Wikileaks release on U.S./NATO actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Will Wikileaker SPC. Bradley Manning Be Redeemeed?
What will become of incarcerated Wikileaker SPC. Bradley Manning?
A Really Big Show: Bigwigs Gather in Kabul…for What, Exactly?
More meetings on Afghanistan result in nothing new. Let’s tell Congress we’re sick of the vast amounts of money and lives wasted.
The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency
As success in Afghanistan becomes more uncertain, Conn Hallinan argues that the problem is not Afghanistan, but the entire concept of counterinsurgency.
Endgame: Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Politics of U.S. Withdrawal
President Obama promises to begin transferring U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011. A new international conference in Kabul endorses Afghan President Karzai’s call for Afghanistan to be in charge of its own security by 2014. Meanwhile, facing its own Islamist insurgency and growing economic and political crises, Pakistan considers its options in Afghanistan.
Investment Rules in Trade Agreements: Korea-U.S. and Beyond
IPS Global Economy Director Sarah Anderson presented this slideshow at a congressional briefing sponsored by Rep. Mike Michaud on July 19, 2010.
Shades of Evil
Our foreign policy — and Foreign Policy magazine — could perhaps benefit from a little more honest introspection.