No Chance Obama’s War
in Afghanistan Will Succeed
 
By Sherwood Ross L.A. Progressive
Dec. 26, 2009 - "There isn’t the slightest possibility that the course laid out by Barack Obama in his December 1 speech (at West Point) will halt or even slow the downward spiral toward defeat in Afghanistan," writes […]

Photo: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Antiwar Voice in Congress
What will Congressional
Democrats do now?
By Tom Hayden
Dec. 8, 2009 - Congressional Democrats held a closed caucus Dec. 8 to consider their stance on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and what to do about the president’s 30,000 more troops, whose deployment will begin without a Congressional decision or […]

Obama’s Indecent Interval
  
Despite the U.S. president’s pleas to the contrary,
the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
 
BY THOMAS H. JOHNSON, M. CHRIS MASON | DECEMBER 10, 2009

As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, truth is ridiculed, then denied, and then “accepted as having been obvious to everyone from the beginning.”
So […]

Obama Announces Afghanistan Escalation
By Tom Hayden
December 1, 2009

It’s time to strip the Obama sticker off my car.
Obama’s escalation in Afghanistan is the last in a string of disappointments. His flip-flopping acceptance of the military coup in Honduras has squandered the trust of Latin America. His Wall Street bailout leaves the poor, the […]

Washington’s Wars
and Occupations:
Month in Review #55
By Max Elbaum

War Times/Tiempo de Guerras
Nov. 30, 2009 - No one can predict the specifics. But Washington’s current course in the Middle East is all but certain to produce one or more disastrous explosions of violence in the coming years.  And way too much blood is […]