Stories by Rahul Mahajan
Rahul Mahajan is an antiwar activist, and serves on the Coordinating Committee of the National Network to End the War Against Iraq and the Board of Directors of Peace Action.
The latest WMD report merely confirms what anti-war activists were claiming all along -- way before the invasion of Iraq.
Posted on Apr 6, 2005
Be it in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Bush administration has a track record of fixing elections to produce the winner it desires.
Posted on Sep 28, 2004
An eyewitness account describes a town that has been irrevocably transformed by the bloody U.S. military offensive.
Posted on Apr 12, 2004
The Bush administration's decision to take on the Sunni and the Shi'a at the same time is a surefire recipe for disaster in Iraq.
Posted on Apr 7, 2004
The 'war on terrorism' makes us all less safe -- more military prowess leads to more terrorist attacks. Today the trains of Madrid; tomorrow the New York subway?
Posted on Mar 12, 2004
An administration that will play fast and loose with the truth on Iraq's putative WMD is entirely capable of doing the same regarding its true intentions for the future Iraqi government.
Posted on Aug 26, 2003
With the U.S. trying to exclude the UN from any meaningful role in Iraq's management, economic controls are a crucial check on Washington's self-serving plans for a puppet Baghdad.
Posted on May 9, 2003
One year after the bombing of Afghanistan started, many of the results are in, and it's time for a critical look at the Bush administration's "successes."
Posted on Oct 7, 2002
When all the justifications for making war on Iraq collapse, what is left is the same ugly three-letter word that has always been at the core of U.S. Middle East policy -- oil.
Posted on Aug 2, 2002
The single most common question antiwar activists are confronted with is, "What's your solution?" Here are some very practical, very attainable ones.
Posted on Oct 18, 2001
The Bush administration has many reasons for this war. Humanitarian aid is not among them.
Posted on Oct 8, 2001
As the calls for war grow louder, a different kind of response has been building as well: outspoken citizens across the country cautioning against rash, massive retaliation.
Posted on Sep 13, 2001