Josh White / 09 May 2022
Dead Centre
Blairism Without Blair
Twenty-five years after winning a landslide victory, Tony Blair haunts the Labour Party.(...)
Afghanistan
John Foster / 25 Feb 2022
The Country to End All Countries
Russia vs. Ukraine
No sooner had the Winter Olympics closing ceremonies ended than the invasion of Ukraine began.(...)
The Battleground / 24 Sep 2021
Introducing Left To Burn
The Battleground’s New Podcast
In the debut episode of Left to Burn, John Foster and Josh White discuss the fallout of US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the analogy with Vietnam. But that’s not all.(...)
John Foster / 10 Sep 2021
Born to Lose
America in Afghanistan
When William Westmorland led American forces in Vietnam, he kept a copy of Bernard Fall’s devastating critique of the French war in Indochina, The Street Without Joy, on his night table.(...)
Josh White / 06 Sep 2021
The Media’s War
Afghanistan and the Press
Throughout the US war in Afghanistan, Western media framed the conflict in terms that suited the governments of the day.(...)
John Foster / 19 Apr 2021
After Afghanistan
Last Lesson From Vietnam, Part II
The advent of the Biden Administration presaged many changes in US foreign policy. (...)
John Foster / 16 Apr 2021
Last Lesson From Vietnam
Afghanistan, or How to Stay at War
On 20 January 2001, George W. Bush was inaugurated as president of the United States.(...)
Piotr Maciej Kaczynski / 12 Nov 2020
Jungle Life
The Samos Refugee Experience, Part II
In the Samos camp, NGOs provide almost everything the Greek government and the UNHCR does not.(...)
Matt Rubenstein / 01 Jul 2020
Did the Russians Do It?
When the Press Takes Sides
Nothing unusual here. The Taliban have been killing NATO troops in Afghanistan for nearly two decades. But this story was a little different. According to the New York Times, recent attacks on US and British forces have been partially sponsored by Russia.(...)
John Foster / 15 Jun 2020
American Killing Fields
Vincent Bevins’ The Jakarta Method
The short twentieth century, running from 1914 to 1989 is generally divided into two halves. The first, ending 1945, is the era of mass slaughter. (...)