Ordinarily, I think of myself as a card-carrying liberal. But lately, I’m getting the feeling that Liberal America had a meeting to decide on our current priorities and peace advocates weren’t invited. I open my email and it’s full of rallying cries about the urgency of taxing the rich. When was it decided that taxing…
U.S. officials are “probing a possible attempted coverup” in the deaths of five Afghan civilians in February in a raid carried out by U.S. Special Forces accompanied by Afghan troops, the Los Angeles Times reports. Among the charges is that the bodies were tampered with by U.S. forces to conceal the cause of death. But…
In the next several weeks, Congress is likely to be asked to approve $33 billion more for the war in Afghanistan, mainly to pay for the current military escalation, whose focus is the planned assault on the Afghan city of Kandahar. Some Members of Congress will vote no on the funding. A larger group of…