Afghanistan’s Fool’s Gold

| Jul 12, 2010 | Peace / SecurityHere’s some free advice: Never buy shares in a goldmine from a guy operating out of a house trailer. Likewise, never buy a story from the Pentagon about an incredible discovery of gold in Afghanistan. From out of nowhere, a recent news report excitedly tells us...
We’ve Got to Get out of There

We’ve Got to Get out of There

| Jul 5, 2010 | Peace / SecurityPretty much everyone (outside of the nutty “he’s the Antichrist” coalition) thinks President Barack Obama did the right thing in firing his Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Unfortunately, he did it for the wrong reasons. McChrystal got...

The Lineup: Week of July 5-12, 2010

| Jul 2, 2010 | Peace / SecurityHere’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package, which features a Donald Kaul column and Khalil Bendib cartoon on the futility of the Afghanistan War and an op-ed about the “passion investments” of the how the ultra-rich....

Feisty Grannies Stand Up for Peace

| Jun 7, 2010 | Peace / SecurityHow grand it was in Washington for Hamid Karzai. The corrupt, inept president of Afghanistan–whose regime is being propped up by 87,000 of our troops and a $7-billion-a-month bill from us taxpayers–got the red-carpet treatment in our nation’s capital...