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Video: Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km' | World news | guardian.co.uk
Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km'As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood.
afghanistan  war  usa  politics  UK  videos 
august 2010 by amy
We didn't stop that war, but may have stopped the next | Comment is free | The Guardian
Five years ago, the biggest political protest in our history served to explode the myth of public apathy
war  politics  activism  iraq  usa  UK 
february 2008 by amy
Study: False statements preceded war - Yahoo! News
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
politics  usa  arghh  war  iraq 
january 2008 by amy
Guardian | CIA destroyed video of 'waterboarding' al-Qaida detainees
The CIA destroyed video evidence of the coercive interrogation of al-Qaida operatives held under its secret rendition programme in order to shield agents from prosecution, it was revealed yesterday.
usa  politics  war  law 
december 2007 by amy
Books | Confronting the beast
The secret allure and the greatness of literature, the secret that sends us to it over and over again, with enthusiasm and a longing to find refuge and meaning, is that literature can repeatedly redeem for us the tragedy of the one from the statistics of
books  writing  literature  war  society 
september 2007 by amy
No Exit, No Strategy - New York Times
This was the week in which Americans hoped they would get straight talk and clear thinking on Iraq. What they got was two exhausting days of Congressional testimony by the American military commander, hours of news conferences and interviews, clouds of cu
usa  politics  war  iraq  comment 
september 2007 by amy
Metromix. Movie review: 'No End in Sight'
This devastating critique of the Iraq war can't, and won't, be easily picked apart by those who don't agree with its doleful conclusions. ...we hear the voices of people who knew more... than their armchair-warrior superiors about ...what went wrong...
iraq  war  usa  politics  movies  documentaries  reviews 
september 2007 by amy
The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
usa  politics  journalism  war  iraq  tbr 
september 2007 by amy
Cleric Switches Tactics to Meet Changes in Iraq - New York Times
After months of lying low, the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr has re-emerged with a shrewd strategy that reaches out to Iraqis on the street while distancing himself from the increasingly unpopular government.
war  iraq  politics  religion  society 
july 2007 by amy
Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, U.S. Study Says
The report reinforced longstanding suspicions that smugglers, insurgents and corrupt officials control significant parts of the country’s oil industry
usa  politics  war  iraq  energy 
may 2007 by amy
The White House Scales Back Talk of Iraq Progress - New York Times
The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater security until September, and many of Mr. Bush’s top advisers now anticipate that any gains by then will be limited, ac
politics  war  iraq  usa 
april 2007 by amy
Insurgents report a split with Al Qaeda in Iraq - Los Angeles Times
Insurgent leaders and Sunni Arab politicians say divisions between insurgent groups and Al Qaeda in Iraq have widened and have led to combat in some areas of the country, a schism that U.S. officials hope to exploit.
usa  war  politics  iraq 
march 2007 by amy
House narrowly backs timetable for Iraq withdrawal - International Herald Tribune
The House of Representatives voted Friday, by an extremely narrow margin and after an unusually emotional debate, to set a timetable for bringing American troops home from Iraq.
iraq  war  usa  politics 
march 2007 by amy
Powell's Books - PowellsBooks.Blog
Why Can't We Remember Anything About Iraq?
usa  geography  religion  war  iraq  culture 
february 2007 by amy
BBC NEWS | Americas | Iraq panel demands urgent change
A major report on US policy in Iraq has called for a new approach and urgent action to stop "a slide towards chaos".
usa  politics  war  iraq 
december 2006 by amy
Britons wary of Bush more than Kim Jong-il: poll
The United States is seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbors and allies, with Britons saying President George W. Bush poses a greater danger than North Korea's Kim Jong-il, a survey found on Friday.
politics  war  usa 
november 2006 by amy
The Observer | Comment | Now we know what we know, why is Blair still in office?
As more evidence of his role in the Iraq debacle emerges, it beggars belief that the Prime Minister hasn't been impeached
politics  war  iraq  uk 
october 2006 by amy
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 - washingtonpost.com
A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
news  usa  war  politics 
october 2006 by amy
Over 800 attacks every week in Iraq
The Bush administration has misled the American people about the level of violence in Iraq, where there is an attack by insurgent forces every 15 minutes, Bob Woodward, the investigative journalist, said yesterday.
politics  USA  war  iraq 
september 2006 by amy
LRB | Bush’s Useful Idiots
Tony Judt on the Strange Death of Liberal America
politics  tbr  usa  war 
september 2006 by amy
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat - New York Times
A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since 9/11.
usa  war  iraq  terrorism  politics 
september 2006 by amy
The World After 9/11
Amy Davidson talks to Seymour M. Hersh, Jon Lee Anderson, and George Packer about Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terror, and whether America is stronger now.
politics  war  USA  terrorism 
september 2006 by amy
Flat Daddies
The US National Guard has hit upon the idea of providing the families of servicemen with life-size cut-out photographs of their loved ones to help them through the strains of an overseas deployment. The scheme is called Flat Daddies.
wtf  USA  culture  war 
september 2006 by amy
Iranian president lambasts US on new blog | Top News | Reuters.com
Iran's president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war.
war  politics 
august 2006 by amy
Middle East policy | To Israel with love | Economist.com
ANYBODY who doubts the size of the transatlantic divide over Israel should try discussing the Middle East conflagration in Britain and then doing the same in America.
politics  usa  war  tbr 
august 2006 by amy
Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts - New York Times
A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military
politics  military  iraq  war 
july 2006 by amy
AP Embed Gets Scoop on Latest Alleged U.S. Atrocity in Iraq
five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her
usa  war  iraq  law 
july 2006 by amy
Supreme Court Blocks Guantánamo Tribunals
The Supreme Court today delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Bush administration, ruling that the military tribunals it created to try terror suspects violate both American military law and the Geneva Conventions.
news  politics  law  usa  war 
june 2006 by amy
Bush challenges hundreds of laws - The Boston Globe
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
law  politics  usa  war  privacy 
may 2006 by amy
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Meet Bush's latest enemy in the war on Iraq: the Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona
Peace grannies' part of growing anti-war network - Elderly women tried to enlist in place of young
war  USA  politics  activism 
april 2006 by amy
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