Afghanistan War

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Explosively bad

The potential for even more public disillusionment and anger is huge as events outstrip the nation’s political imagination
Abroad and at home, the future looks grim.
By EDITORIAL | October 09, 2008

A fast-paced spy thriller explores the ambiguities of wartime
The first wave of current-war fiction is washing up on American shores, and Alex Carr’s The Prince of Bagram Prison is a prime example.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 09, 2008

Kite club

Simplified Runner not up to speed
In spite of being lovingly realized and creatively cast, The Kite Runner is a simplistic adaptation of a powerful, multi-layered story.
By CHRIS WANGLER | December 12, 2007

Peaks Island veteran collects stories of war's atrocities

Winter soldier
Thirty-six years ago, more than 100 Vietnam veterans gathered in Detroit to describe and expose war crimes perpetrated by themselves and their fellow soldiers.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | December 05, 2007

Dance, Monkey: Jim Morris as President George W. Bush

A comic in the hot seat
Vice-President Cheney and I have just implemented a plan whereby we now deal with people who disagree with our plans for Iraq and Afghanistan by declaring them Enemy Combatants.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | September 25, 2007

Flashbacks: September 29, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Dan Peleschuk, Ian Sands, and Eva Wolchover.
By PHOENIX FLASHBACKS | September 27, 2006

Welcome back, Castro

Around the world with Adam Reilly
On Tuesday, the Cuban dictator announced his recuperation on Cuba’s state-run news Web site.
By ADAM REILLY | September 06, 2006

Who might need - and get - a pardon?

Legal advisers, high-level officials, covert operatives
Abuse of prisoners and detainees by US personnel has occurred, at the very least, at three overseas sites: Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, in Iraq; Guantánamo Bay, in Cuba; and Bagram Air Base, in Afghanistan.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | August 17, 2006

Extraordinary rendition

The Road to Guantánamo can’t handle the truth
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, directors of the flawed but inflammatory The Road to Guantánamo , go about telling the truth of injustice in a roundabout way. Fact or fiction? Mat Whitecross explains . By Peter Keough
By PETER KEOUGH | June 21, 2006

George vs. George

Compare and contrast
President George W. Bush is the third man named George to hold the head office of our republic, after his father and George Washington.
By JEFF INGLIS | May 11, 2006

When GI Joe says no

What critics of the Iraq War must understand about the new culture of the military
A young former US Army sniper wearing a desert-camo uniform, an Iraqi kaffiyeh, and mirrored sunglasses scans a ruined urban landscape of smashed homes, empty streets, and garbage heaps.
By CHRISTIAN PARENT | April 26, 2006

The Beauty Academy of Kabul

Compelling doc avoids coming off too didactic
Shot in Afghanistan just months after the seeming smashing of the Taliban, Liz Mermin’s engaging film already seems a nostalgia item remembering a better, more optimistic time.
By GERALD PEARY | April 19, 2006

Books not bombs

Turning the page for Afghan girls
It’s symbolic that Afghanistan’s largest school for girls occupies the building that used to house the country’s largest Taliban madrassa
By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 18, 2006

Suicide Attacks Target Kabul Peacekeepers

KABUL, Afghanistan - Two separate suicide attackers rammed car bombs into vehicles belonging to NATO-led peacekeepers Monday in Kabul, killing at least one German soldier and wounding at least 13 people in the first major attack on foreign troops in the capital in more than a year.

By Mike Smith | December 18, 2005

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