Mike Connery, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 30, 2008. John McCain is supporting a watered-down version of the new GI Bill that will primarily benefit career officers.
Ilan Goldenberg, Huffington Post. April 23, 2008. As the head of U.S. Central Command, Petraeus will have to answer some tough questions he has thus far been able to avoid.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 23, 2008. Weeks after defending the war before Congress, General David Petraeus is tapped to become the head of U.S. Central Command.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise. April 11, 2008. The war on drugs is great fun and all, but is pissing off a million of this guy's followers really such a bright tactic?
William O. Beeman, Le Monde diplomatique. April 5, 2008. The U.S. military is recruiting anthros to help navigate Iraqi culture -- not everyone is happy about it.
Mariah Blake, Mother Jones. April 2, 2008. The Pentagon knew that Murat Kurnaz was an innocent man at Guantánamo Bay, but they kept him there for five years anyway. This is his story.
Dread Scott, AlterNet. March 29, 2008. Artist Dread Scott argues that the controversy over his art installation only proves his point about "America's abuses of power."
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. March 20, 2008. Last weekend veterans gave eyewitness testimony about the horrors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Let's honor them by listening.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Election 2008. March 20, 2008. The cost of the new G.I. bill is projected to be about $2.5 billion a year — roughly the cost of U.S. operations in Iraq for one week.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. March 15, 2008. They will present photographs and videos, recorded with mobile phones and digital cameras of brutality, torture and murder.
Nina Berman, AlterNet. March 15, 2008. Hundreds of veterans are testifying against war crimes this weekend in Washington, DC. Nina Berman shares their stories.
John Stauber, PR Watch AlterNet: PEEK. March 14, 2008. "No longer will public debate on the Global War on Terror be framed solely by politicians and pundits."
Amitabh Pal, The Progressive. March 12, 2008. A report accuses China of understating its military spending, which is a whopping one-fifteenth of the United States' defense budget.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. March 3, 2008. President Bush claims that Afghani women are "learning the blessings of freedom." But all we've given them is poverty, death and abuse.
Declan Walsh, Richard Norton Taylor, The Guardian. February 29, 2008. Injection of troops and aid has not brought stability says U.S. intelligence chief.
Terri Judd, The Independent UK. February 25, 2008. The U.S. and Britain claim to have "liberated" Afghanistan, but the women on the ground tell a different story.
Abid Mustafa, Middle East Online. February 21, 2008. The forceful imposition of Western values is far more of a threat to world peace than Muslim nations gaining WMD.
Nelofer Pazira, The Independent UK. February 15, 2008. A popular TV and radio host who survived Soviet tyranny has not been as lucky under Afghanistan's Western-backed "democracy."
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: PEEK. February 14, 2008. The average age of an Afghan widow is just 35 years, and 94 percent of them are unable to read and write