Afghanistan

Go Big and Remember Johnny Ramone With Cry-Baby: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Saturday, Aug. 17 Blue Exorcist the Movie is based on the popular manga written and illustrated by Kazue Kato (which became an anime television series in 2011). The story follows Rin Okumura, the teenage son of Satan, in his quest to avenge the death of hi ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Dead Children in Afghanistan

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Joe Cole and American Gun Violence I use music to keep my life in che ... More >>

Capturing the Carnage

Soldiers' Tales

Under Fire: Journalists in Combat review

Where Soldiers Come From Review

Calling Afghanistan: L.A. Schoolkids Try to Bridge a Gulf

Jim HakeThe linkup at Windward School​Teenagers spend a lot of time talking on the phone. But not too many of them get to call their peers in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. A handful of teens from Windward School, a charter school in West L.A., recently became the first to do so. The n ... More >>

New Video: ASKA "Almost There" (dir. Ariana Delawari)

Desolate solo acoustic version of the already "Almost There" from Aska Matsumiya, Moonrats singer/keyboardist, L.A. Ladies Choir co-founder and collaborator with Spike Jones and Flea and David Scott Stone and now Ariana Delawari, whose own story leads from Kabul to L.A. to David Lynch's new label. ... More >>

The War Within Us

Bringing Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble's play cycle about Iraq and Afghanistan to the stage

Food For Ammo: Fast Food Cut From U.S. Bases In Afghanistan

Flickr user foodforfelA Farewell to Freedom Fries​ The fight in Afghanistan just got a lot less processed. According to Command Sargent Major Michael T. Hall's blog (yes, he has a blog), "In the coming weeks and months, concessions such as Orange Julius, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen an ... More >>

Ariana Delawari’s Afghanistan Dream

A political expat teams with David Lynch to create an ethereal gem

Afghan Star: Kabul Meets American Idol

British Director Havana Marking's Feature Doc on Singing for Fame in a Wartorn Country

Military Intellect

Military Mights

The Kite Runner: Grounded

Controversy aside, this movie doesn’t fly

Lion of Panjshir

“It’s like in Alice in Wonderland, we’re painting the roses red!”

View From a Grain of Sand

Michael Winterbottom Takes on The Elephant

Dinner, belly dancing and The Road to Guantánamo

To Hell and Back

Surviving Guantánamo

And Then There Was a Knock

The strange detention of a Hindu Afghan grandfather and his wife

U.S. of Amnesia

Gore Vidal looks past the election

Great Odds, Odd Goods

Top Ten Bush Administration Outrages

Afghanistan Revisited

The Weekly’s Ben Ehrenreich reports from Kabul

Ban the Sun

The strange case of two Afghanistan editors and their now-closed critical paper

No Miracles

Violence spirals out of control, especially outside Kabul, where laws cease to exist

The Back Story

Questions for my government

The War on Relief

With Iraq in crisis, humanitarian efforts around the globe go on hold

The Eyes of Perpetual War

James Nachtwey has spent a lifetime on the frontlines of the world’s worst calamities. Here, the photojournalist talks about the burden of documenting war, famine, poverty and human-rights abuses.

The Back Story

Reign of Chaos

A letter from Pakistan

Grand Delusion

Caught Looking

New Iranian films, Old World dilemmas

Where to Now?

Coming battles in the War on Terror

The Bright Quilt

My hopes for Afghanistan

The Back Story

A week 11 reading list

The Oil War

UNOCAL’s once-grand plan for Afghan pipelines

Out of the Frying Pan

After the Taliban, will Afghanistan’s women really be free?

A Letter From Pakistan

Kabul’s gain is Pakistan’s loss

Al-Jazeera All the Time

The Back Story

Reading List: Week 7

A Mantu for All Seasons

Mapping the Afghan menu

George, Meet George

It’s time for a real marshall plan

Rambo Diplomacy

As Afghanistan Turns

The soap opera everyone tunes in

An Afghanistan Picture Show

Overnight Sage

Last week, Mir Tamim Ansary sent out an e-mail. Now he’s a sought-after expert

Futile Force

Better ways to fight terrorism than killing people

The Child in Time

Brazil 911