Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, reminded us this week just how blinkered the opponents of withdrawing from Afghanistan are:The alternative to withdrawal from Afghanistan was not “endless occupation” but open-ended presence. Occupation...
On COI #153, Kyle Anzalone updates events in Afghanistan. The Pentagon and State Department are working to remove some privileged Afghans and Americans from Afghanistan. The US claims it has evacuated tens of thousands so far, but it is still unclear how many will be...
Scores of Afghans and numerous US servicemembers are dead after a series of bombings and shootings around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The attacks come as the American drawdown from Afghanistan nears its long-awaited conclusion. A relatively new...
Seventy-five years ago this week, an article by novelist and war reporter John Hersey, titled simply "Hiroshima," occupied the entire feature section of the August 31, 1946, issue of The New Yorker. Soon it would be hailed by many as one of the most important...
Benjamin Wallace-Wells profiles Elbridge Colby and discusses his hawkishness on China in a recent New Yorker article. This section was probably the most telling part of the entire piece:Colby’s response is to try to sever the transformational vision of the forever...
On the first-ever Conflicts of Interest bonus episode, Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter sit down with Magnus Panvidya to discuss the ‘End The Damn Wars’ project, an effort to unite anti-war voices across the political spectrum and organize street actions opposing US...
John Rizzo, the CIA’s top lawyer, who gave the green light for torture, is dead. My former CIA colleague, John Kiriakou, who knew him well, has written a fitting “encomium.”Kiriakou knew Rizzo well and describes him as “the unapologetic godfather of the CIA’s torture...
From The Grayzone: Scott Horton, author of Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, joins Max Blumenthal on his weekly Foreign Agents livestream to explain how Bush, Obama and Gen's Petraeus and McChrystal destroyed Afghanistan while lying to the US public...
There is a lot of chatter from the usual suspects about how Biden will need to “reassure” allies and clients following the withdrawal from Afghanistan, but that seems like a serious mistake. First, it’s not at all obvious that allies and clients genuinely need any...
Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton talks to Peter Slen of C-SPAN 2's Book TV about his book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism at Freedom Fest in Rapid City, South Dakota.
