我们要么被铭记为一个认真对待所有人的自由和自由的国家，要么我们将被铭记为一个懦夫的国家，他们在恐惧的驱使下，愿意剥夺这个群体，然后是那个群体的自由——在失去之前那完全是自由。
The 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is a particularly somber one, not just because of the horrific nature of events of that day reaching its second-decade milestone, but because of how little we seem to have learned in that amount of time. The fear and trauma generated by the events of 9/11 were used by the U.S. national security state
美国-西方的宣传已经影响了我们对阿富汗的集体理解长达二十年之久，而且如此强大，以至于我们对导致塔利班迅速接管的动态一无所知。
For twenty years, two dominant narratives have shaped our view of the illegal US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, and neither one of these narratives would readily accept the use of such terms as ‘illegal’, ‘invasion’ and ‘occupation.’ The framing of the US ‘military intervention’ in Afghanistan, starting on October 7, 2001, as the
在这次坦率的讨论中，格伦顿谈到了英国军队对帝国主义的崇拜、他在鸦片贸易方面的经历以及完全可以预见的阿富汗政府垮台。
The world’s news feeds have been inundated this week with a deluge of images of the extremely hasty American retreat from Afghanistan. After militarily occupying the country for two decades and spending an estimated $2 trillion, the American-backed Afghan government lasted barely a week without U.S. troops backing it up. President Ashraf Ghani
随着关于阿富汗的全国对话转向该国的未来，阿德利和威尔克森坦率地讨论了美国帝国、战争奸商和反恐战争的现状。
After 20 years of war and occupation that have caused the deaths of almost a quarter of a million people and displaced 5.9 million more, the United States appears to have finally (tacitly) admitted defeat in Afghanistan, pulling its forces and representatives out of the country. The U.S.-installed government fell within days, with President
到2019年底，华盛顿的全球战争将使美国纳税人花费不少于5.9万亿美元，并承诺在一生中照顾战争的退伍军人。
In September 2001, the Bush administration launched the “Global War on Terror.” Though “global” has long since been dropped from the name, as it turns out, they weren’t kidding. When I first set out to map all the places in the world where the United States is still fighting terrorism so many years later, I didn’t think it would be that hard to
新和平协议的呼吁在哪里可以从夸张的军事预算中筹集数千亿美元来投资绿色基础设施？
In the spirit of a new year and a new Congress, 2019 may well be our best and last opportunity to steer our ship of state away from the twin planetary perils of environmental chaos and militarism, charting a course toward an earth-affirming 21st century. The environmental crisis was laid bare by the sobering December report of the UN Climate
