With Labor’s budget doubling Australia’s expenditure on Afghanistan, it seems pertinent to look at where that war might be heading, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Articles by Jeff Sparrow 
Afghan War update: civilian assassinations, warlords and napalm-like substances
Just when you think the war in Afghanistan can’t become any more obscene, it suddenly does.
Australia takes worst of Vietnam to Afghanistan, WTF?
When did we decide to revive Phoenix, the most notorious US assassination program of the twentieth century?
The republic: overcoming apathy to B-grade celebrity royals
Bob Brown’s renewed push for a republic should be welcomed: at the moment, we select our highest post by methods you couldn’t apply to a job flipping burgers.
Why “Just Say No” to people smugglers won’t work
If you were a Tamil in that situation, facing – at best – life in a barbed wire camp, how would you respond to someone offering you a place on a boat?
White arsonists by the boatload
Will politicians and shockjocks now start whispering about how country Victorians started the bushfire disaster themselves?
#amazonfail: With book monopolies like these, no-one is safe
On Easter Sunday, weird things happened at uberbookseller Amazon, when the site suddenly reclassified certain titles as containing “adult” content.
Dymocks: throwing the book at parallel importing
There’s something a little coy about Dymocks’ current campaign for the parallel importation of books into Australia.
Recession inspires US citizens to bear arms
In the last four weeks alone, six mass shootings have killed 47 people in the United States.
2020 anniversary passes without a word, except from Costello…
If we don’t hold politicians to their promises, can we blame them for lying to us? Asks Jeff Sparrow.
Earth Hour: flicking a switch is far too easy
The problem, then, with purely symbolic actions like Earth Hour. is that they might actually foster cynicism more than dispel it.
