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Pelosi: Obama Needs Room To Make Afghan Decision
RENEE MONTAGNE, host: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. And I'm Renee Montagne. STEVE INSKEEP, host: And I'm Steve Inskeep. We're going to spend the ...
MoJo Interview: Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya has often been called the bravest woman in Afghanistan. Just 27 when she was elected in 2005, Joya has quickly become one of ...
The bravest woman in Afghanistan
Malalai Joya, was the youngest person elected to the new Afghan parliament in 2005, but she was suspended two years later for condemning top government ...
History Promises Disaster in Afghanistan for Blind America
If President Obama has ever heard of William L. Shirer, chances are it's in connection with Nazi Germany. Nowadays, you can't make assumptions about what ...
The fallout of Quetta drones
Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine revealed in October edition, that the number of US predator drone strikes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the ...
The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give
Sure, the quote in the over-title is only my fantasy. No one in Washington -- no less President Obama -- ever said, "This administration ended, ...
Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer
What's up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take on the powerful banking interests but is now doing their bidding. Finally, ...
Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation
Just when President Barack Obama looked as if he might be railroaded into sending tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan the American envoy ...
Gen. Wesley Clark calls for exit from Afghanistan
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark -- the onetime Democratic candidate for president -- told Congress Tuesday in little-reported remarks that the United States should begin planning ...
Paying Off the Warlords
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a ...
Remarks by Richard L. Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Institute, Spotlight on the Jobs Crisis, Washington DC November 17, 2009
Let me start by telling you about a young woman who came to an event we held in northeastern Ohio two months ago. Her name ...
Restore Glass-Steagall protections
This week marks an important anniversary that will go unnoticed in many corners. Ten years ago, a little known Depression-era law known as the Glass-Steagall ...
Did Big Oil Win the War in Iraq?
Last week, ExxonMobil became the first U.S. oil company in 35 years to sign an oil-production contract with the government of Iraq.As I write, several ...
'America's Mayor' Calls for a Moratorium on Home Foreclosures
Thursday, November 12th, on MSNBC's 'The Ed Show,' Virg Bernero, Mayor of Lansing, Michigan, calls for a moratorium on home foreclosures:ED SCHULTZ, MSNBC HOST: I ...
Gen. (Ret.) Jack Keane Discusses Afghanistan with Al Jazeera English's Avi Lewis
JACK KEANE: Karzai's brother is a thug, in every sense of the word. We're onto him, to all the problems he's causing. Is he mixed ...
Welcome Home, War!
In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent ...
U.S. is doing no good in Afghanistan
As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation ...
Rachel Maddow: Hoekstra, Dubious Choice for Intelligence Committee
The following is a transcript of Rachel Maddow's 'RE: Hoekstra, Line & Sinker' from 'The Rachel Maddow Show' on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009:If a religious ...
Letter from Iraq Veterans Against War Delivered to President Obama at Fort Hood, TX
President Obama visited Fort Hood today. He dropped by Michael Kern's barracks. Michael handed President Obama a letter, saying, "Sir, IVAW has some concerns we'd ...
McChrystal's Fuzzy Math
As rumors fly about how many troops President Obama will send to Afghanistan, Leslie H. Gelb crunches Gen. McChrystal’s math—and argues there’s no way to ...
Drone Race to a Known Future
For drone freaks (and these days Washington seems full of them), here's the good news: Drones are hot! Not long ago -- 2006 to be ...
Millions in the United States lack access to affordable, adequate housing – UN
9 November 2009 – An independent United Nations expert has warned that the United States is an increasingly expensive place to find housing, leaving many ...
Facing a new world architecture
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different ...
Focusing on Fort Hood Killer's Beliefs Is an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre
It's hard to pinpoint what's the most shocking thing about Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan's shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas.I'll start with this: There's ...
Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill
The Affordable Health Care for America Act was approved by the U.S. House Saturday night with overwhelming support from progressive Democrats who serve in the ...
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