A group of Afghans outside a market in Bamiyan province, Afghanistan, on June 8, 2008. Public opinion polls show that support for the U.S. military is only slightly higher than support for Osama bin Laden. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Two young Afghan boys watch a group of armored vehicles. (Photo: MCpl Kevin Paul / lafrancevi) Afghans Overwhelmingly Want US Troops Out - and Soon
Jean MacKenzie, GlobalPost: "More than half of all Afghans - 55 percent - want U.S. forces out of their country, and the sooner the better. Add it all up, and it is pretty bad news for the U.S. military as it examines its options ahead of next week’s Afghanistan strategy review.... The poll ... shows a nation yearning for an end to hostilities."
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<-- Shibuya, Tokyo. (Photo: - reuben -)Reconsidering Japan and Reconsidering Paul Krugman
Sunday 12 December 2010
by: Steven Hill, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
Steven Hill, Truthout: "The New York Times is doing a series on Japan, which the Times describes as an examination of 'the effects on Japanese society of two decades of economic stagnation and declining prices.' Reading the series is about as cheery a task as rubbernecking at a car wreck on I-95, but, unfortunately, the Times series simply repeats the 'conventional wisdom' about Japan put out by the same economic experts who missed an $8 trillion housing bubble in the United States, and, in fact, have been wrong on most of the big economic issues over the past two decades."
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