Rethink Escalation in Afghanistan

• Why Is the US Paying Off the Taliban?

  US Military

  MSNBC : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill appears on MSNBC to discuss his colleague Aram Roston's new investigation into how the US funds the Taliban.

• Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front

  Afghanistan

  Dahr Jamail & Sarah Lazare: Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.

• The Ethnic Split

  Afghanistan War

  Selig S. Harrison: The tenacity of the Taliban insurgency is rooted in opposition to a foreign occupation that is particularly distasteful to the Pashtuns.

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• Sanders: Lies, Fibs and Anti-Reformers

  Health Care Policy

  Brave New Films : Since many Americans are misinformed about the opportunities a healthcare reform will bring, Sen. Bernie Sanders tries to expose the lies surrounding the bill.

• Sanders Unfiltered: America's Class Crisis

  Class

  Brave New Films : Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders calls for a "new type of Wall Street, a Wall Street that is not interested in bubble economics," in this first in a series of videos.

• Women of Afghanistan Tell Their Stories

  Afghanistan War

  Brave New Films : American military escalation will not liberate the women of Afghanistan. Instead, the hardships of war take a disproportionate toll on women and their families.