Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 21, 2009. "Those who say we are scrapping missile defense in Europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting what we are doing," Gates said.
Laura Flanders, AlterNet. July 30, 2009. While the media covers Obama, Crowley and Gates making up, sipping beer, the real issue is: Police who abuse power need to be reined in at once.
Melissa McEwan, AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. July 1, 2009. Robert Gates said he wants to make DADT more humane; the only way to do that is 86 the policy altogether.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: World. May 28, 2009. He has not been as horrid as he might have been, but that doesn't mean Gates is a straight shooter.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009. In a fevered YouTube video, Sen. James Inhofe launches a series of patently false accusations at Gates' military spending plan.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. December 19, 2008. Sounds like progress, and Cheney's skepticism notwithstanding, like a commitment Obama is going to keep.
Ian Welsh, Firedoglake AlterNet: War on Iraq. November 25, 2008. What this means is simple enough, a continued draw down in Iraq and a surge in Afghanistan.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. November 20, 2008. There hasn't been a Democratic Defense Secretary since 1996. Why wouldn't Obama choose one now?
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. March 12, 2008. They say it's "good news" Fallon resigned because Esquire didn't offer "any hint of how Fallon intends to defeat our enemies overnight."
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. March 11, 2008. A recent article in Esquire suggested that if Admiral Fallon was fired, the US will most likely go to war with Iran.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: War on Iraq. February 12, 2008. "I'm not convinced we don't need to have a lawsuit ready," Webb told the Huffington Post.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. January 10, 2008. Without definitive evidence that it was Iran who was making the provocative verbal threats, Bush nevertheless seized on the episode.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. November 6, 2007. No Child Left Behind imposes serious consequences on schools for low test scores, but regarding dropout rates -- where students are literally left behind -- it barely does anything.
Gavin M, AlterNet: PEEK. October 2, 2007. Gavin M: Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs shared her anti-Iran beliefs with a shocked group of British MPs.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. July 2, 2007. Russ Wellen: Why, progressives wonder, can't the right, as well as the public at large, fathom that it takes more than "hating our freedoms" to motivate terrorists?
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 15, 2007. Ryan Powers: President Bush contradicts his own Secretary of Defense and insists his precious "surge" in Iraq hasn't even really begun.
Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report. June 4, 2007. Corporate foundations that have pledged millions believe that genetically altered crops will rescue Africa from endemic shortfalls in food production. Are they creating a 'green revolution' or hijacking the food supply?
