War takes their homes, the cold takes the livesTwenty-two children living in Kabul’s refugee camps froze to death in the last month. How is it that after billions of international aid dollars, Afghanis are dying from the cold? Rod Nordland investigates.
Afghanistan
The risk of leaving Afghanistan early
The US Defense Secretary said overnight that US and NATO were aiming to end all combat in Afghanistan by the end of next year. But what will the earlier withdrawal mean for Afghanistan? asks David Ignatius.
Media briefs: New Monthly ed … Leveson latest … News’ prison bribe …
In today’s Media Briefs: John van Tiggelen appointed editor of The Monthly, News Corp tells of tabloid’s prison bribe, Leveson inquiry: Daily Mail is “Britain’s worst enemy”, says Richard Desmond and more …
Political snippets: A silly free plug for Winfield
They must be giving thanks at British American Tobacco to Attorney General Nicola Roxon.
Gazing into the bloodied crystal ball: the wars of 2012
What conflicts are likely to escalate this year, with potentially devastating ramifications? Crisis in Syria, Iran/Israel and Afghanistan are at the top of the list, writes Louise Arbour.
Sally Sara: Farewell to Afghanistan, my adopted home
ABC’s Afghanistan correspondent Sally Sara is returning to Oz to work as a rural affairs reporter. But first she bids farewell to Afghanistan, a country where she lives in a compound yet still encounters its famous hospitality.
Political snippets: Whispers of a Chinese slowdown
A serious slowdown in China really would bring Australia back into line with the struggles being experienced by most of the rest of the developed world.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Journalists fail us on nuclear proliferation
Crikey readers have their say.
Crikey Says: One issue that unites across party lines
Today in parliament, in what will kick off the final parliamentary sitting week of the year, Julia Gillard will deliver a statement on the war in Afghanistan.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Restoring Qantas to public ownership
Crikey readers have their say.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The good, the bad and the Qantas
Crikey readers have their say.
Political snippets: Thank goodness for a sensible arbitration system
Goodness knows what continuing misery Australian air travelers would have gone through were it not for the safety net of having industrial disputes settled by arbitration when all else fails.
Kabul wakes to more death — and unprecedented uncertainty
As the sun rises in Kabul, helicopters are endlessly crossing the skies. As Catherine James writes, the latest attacks on the US embassy are some of the worst locals have seen.
Kabul attack a devastating blow to security credibility
Kabul has been calm for the last few months, but a shock attack this week near the city’s nerve centre has destroyed any faith Afghans had in their security forces, writes Jean MacKenzie.
US troops could remain in Afghanistan for the long haul
Barack Obama may be in the process of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan but recent comments suggest America is prepared to keep a substantial number of combat troops there beyond 2014, reports Gareth Porter.
Video of the Day: Giving a voice to Afghanis
This Time video profiles Masood Farivar, an Afghanistan journalist who returned to his home country after years in the States to establish a national radio network.
War on terror: how to calculate if it has been worth it
There’s a way to calculate how much value we’ve got from our war on terror spending. The result isn’t encouraging.
The winners from the war on terror
Our $16.7 billion spending on the war on terror had ended up in some interesting hands — and hasn’t necessarily reduced the threat of terrorism.
WikiLeaks spokesman: Guardian, NYT wanted to rush war logs
The doyens of the mainstream media were the ones flirting with danger over Wikileaks material, not the site itself, Kristinn Hrafnsson reveals. Bernard Keane and Matthew Knott report.
Political snippets: Better housing news but trend still down.
An encouraging sign in the official Australian Bureau of Statistics figures for April.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The war in Afghanistan paradox
Crikey readers have their say.
Taking us deeper into the war in Afghanistan
The tragic deaths in Afghanistan of Australian servicemen keep coming and with every one of them our politicians keep talking us into the situation where there will be more of them, writes Richard Farmer.
Guy Rundle: The strange twilight nature of the war in Afghanistan
Prime Minister Gillard’s and Opposition leader Abbott’s words on Lance Corporal Andrew Jones and Lieutenant Marcus Case showed the strange twilight nature of the war.
Political snippets: Talking us all in deeper
The tragic deaths in Afghanistan of Australian servicemen keep coming and with every one of them our politicians keep talking us into the situation where there will be more of them.
Daily Proposition: Afghani food, a world away from war
It’s a country we mainly hear about in bleak ABC news crosses to Sally Sara. But Afghani food in Australia is a wondrous world away from roadside bombs and terror groups, says Crikey intern Esther Ooi.
