Afghanistan

Not surprisingly, the vast majority of the media coverage around Michael Hastings’ incendiary profile of General Stanley McChrystal has focused on the junior high antics and petty name-calling of [...]

The U.S. State Department has awarded a $120 million contract to the U.S. Training Center, a business unit of the notorious military contractor formerly known as Blackwater (now known by the [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7CF_k63KI&feature=player_embedded] While we have seen hours of footage of members of Congress (rightfully) beating up on BP CEO Tony Hayward about [...]

It’s sad to say that every time I sit down to write to you about Afghanistan, there is more bad news to report. At least 26 NATO soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last week. General McChrystal [...]

The new reports of Afghanistan’s untapped mineral wealth, said to amount to 1 trillion dollars, are in fact, not new at all. The information has been available to the public for at least [...]

The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey, is delaying a vote on new Afghanistan war funding until Congress extends funding to states and the unemployed. It’s a move [...]

After the debacle in Marja, American and NATO civilian and military officials have decided to try a different approach in Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan. Civilian reconstruction [...]

The total cost of wars since 2001 has passed the trillion dollar mark, according to the National Priorities Project, which has been tracking this kind of spending since 1983. It is important for [...]

The word from DC is that the Senate will vote on the war funding bill in the next couple of days. Senator Russ Feingold plans to introduce an amendment requiring the president to develop a [...]

As I wrote yesterday, the Afghanistan war funding bill continues to get loaded up with popular and much-needed funding for programs like Haiti relief and oil spill cleanup. This creates a [...]