Afghanistan: It’s Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations Afghanistan: It’s Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations
Gilles Dorronsoro, an iconoclastic visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, says Pakistan can deliver the Taliban to the bargaining table. It's time to try it.
Sep 24, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Commentary: Anne Elizabeth Moore on Cambodia’s Striking Garment Workers Commentary: Anne Elizabeth Moore on Cambodia’s Striking Garment Workers
Anne Elizabeth Moore argues that if the international business community can’t support the workers in Cambodia’s garment sector, maybe young women around the world ca...
Sep 24, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Is the Drug War a Class War? Is the Drug War a Class War?
The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts.
Sep 23, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Islamophobia, European-Style Islamophobia, European-Style
In the George W. Bush years, there was little political capital in scapegoating Muslims. Now, apparently, there's a lot.
Sep 23, 2010 / Column / Gary Younge
US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters
The businessman also alleges he witnessed Blackwater's cocaine- and hashish-laced "frat parties gone wild" and random shooting at Iraqi civilians.
Sep 23, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Kashmir 2010: The Year of Killing Youth Kashmir 2010: The Year of Killing Youth
India’s brutal crackdown against unarmed protesters adds to the long local memory of extrajudicial killings, torture and mass repression. In the battle of stone versus bullet...
Sep 22, 2010 / Parvaiz Bukhari
Woodward: Obama Wants Out of Afghanistan Woodward: Obama Wants Out of Afghanistan
Obama is aware of the danger of morphing into George W. Bush.
Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Bob Dreyfuss
One and a Half Cheers for American Decline One and a Half Cheers for American Decline
US troops in Afghanistan are coming home whether Washington wants them to or not, whether there's an antiwar movement or not. And it's going to happen more quickly than anyon...
Sep 21, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt
Despite Failing War, Obama and Petraeus Form Alliance Despite Failing War, Obama and Petraeus Form Alliance
General Petraeus, who opposes a rapid pullout of troops from Afghanistan, has worked himself into the good graces of Obama. What does this mean for the Obama adminstration's path i...
Sep 21, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater’s Secret Relationship with Multinational Corporations Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater’s Secret Relationship with Multinational Corporations
Jeremy Scahill says secret documents reveal Blackwater's relationships with multinational corporations like Monsanto and Chevron, as well as to foreign governments.
Sep 20, 2010 / Press Room