No end in sight | Is there no end to Operation Enduring War?
COMMENTARY
Seven reasons our nation's elites can't seem to stop making war -- and seven ways to turn things around.

| Colombian selected as a Nieman Fellow is denied entry to U.S.
COMMENTARY
The journalist, Hollman Morris, has given speeches and accepted awards in the U.S. but is ruled permanently ineligible for entry under the 'terrorism activities' section of the Patriot Act. A leading journalism group expreses shock and outrage; Nieman Foundation curator Giles asks the State Department to reconsider.

| A tough look at McChrystal was long overdue
COMMENTARY
Michael Hastings's Rolling Stone report has brought new, much-needed, continuing focus on the war in Afghanistan. But the tour-de-force doesn't sit well with some in the mainstream media – and that doesn't sit well with writer Charles Kaiser.

Letter from Des Moines | Which is more bizarre: The Iowa GOP platform or the failure of the press to report it?
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The platform, claiming to promote moderation, would allow concealed guns in schools, end minimum wage and abortion laws, teach creationism, and impeach ‘activist judges.’ Anybody paying attention? The Iowa press sure doesn't seem to be.

Cui bono? | Afghanistan’s mineral wealth won’t help Afghanistan or the U.S. -- but it might help China
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The Chinese won’t hesitate to pay off the people who need to get paid off in order to get access to Afghanistan's natural resources, says author and professor Michael Klare. But the Afghan people and the American people have nothing to celebrate.

Obama's Afghan strategy | A war that only the War Machine could love
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President Obama's Afghanistan war strategy is failing everyone except his enemies and the profiteers. Author Ann Jones writes that the war is generating immense sums of money for relatively small numbers of people, along with immense debt for our nation, immense sacrifice from our combat soldiers, and intense despair for ordinary Afghans.

What’s next: Ratchet up, or pull out? | Was it the four-letter words, used over and over, that brought down McChrystal? ASK THIS Would the Rolling Stone piece have had the same impact without so many curse words? And has the press focused too much on the personal slurs, and not enough on writer Michael Hastings's informative but bleak assessment of the war in Afghanistan?

George Wilson’s column | The ‘white feather' problem in Afghanistan
COMMENTARY| June 22, 2010
Getting in was easy. Getting out is another question. And in the U.S. Senate, there is a great divide between those who want a lesser American role and those, who like McCain, want “the president to state unequivocally that we will stay in Afghanistan until we succeed.”

Oil spill fallout | Obama isn't kicking BP's ass -- he's buying their gas
COMMENTARY
Nick Turse writes that even as the tar balls hit Gulf beaches, taxpayer dollars are enriching BP, particularly through the Pentagon. But so far, President Obama has not shown the slightest indication that he plans to do anything about it.

From Nieman Reports | Joining digital forces to strengthen local investigative reporting
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‘Our goal is to build online tools that the people can easily use to enhance their ability as watchdogs—whether they are citizens or journalists.’ (From Nieman Reports)

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