Willam Fisher, IPS News. September 6, 2008. If spending continues at the current rate, the U.S. will have spent 100 billion dollars on military contractors in Iraq by the end of the year.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 6, 2008. "War hero" McCain voted against healthcare funding for veterans in 2003, '04, '05, '06 and '07. Now veterans are confronting him on his record.
Amanda, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. September 5, 2008. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino wants to make it clear, the White House IS NOT denying spying on Maliki.
Fatih Abdulsalam, Azzaman AlterNet: PEEK. September 4, 2008. The Iraqi government's plan to reopen Abu Ghraib, including a museum of crimes committed under Saddam is revisionist history.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. September 3, 2008. With an eye on the presidential election, the White House is working to create the impression that the war is ripe for U.S. victory.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. September 3, 2008. First Saddam-era deal approved; UNICEF blasts Iraqi government for not investing in drinking water.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. September 2, 2008. Signs that the Iraqi PM's stance on U.S. withdrawal is hardening is undermining Bush's plan for indefinite occupation.
Sarah Lazare, AlterNet. September 1, 2008. At the Veterans for Peace conference, IVAW member Harvey Tharp discusses the war, the election, and why he resigned in protest over the war.
Middle East OnlineAugust 30, 2008. Citing stronger domestic security forces and a need for troops in Afghanistan, a U.S. general says control will be handed over in "just a few days."
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. August 28, 2008. Biden, Obama, and the Dems are rallying to escalate the war in Afghanistan. But trading one war for another would be catastrophic.
Kareem Abed Zair, Azzaman. August 28, 2008. Amid soaring temperatures, Baghdad's Water Authority says three million people in Baghdad have no access to running water.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. August 26, 2008. In his demands for a U.S. troop withdrawal, the Iraqi PM is hardly the tough negotiator the media makes him out to be.
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. August 26, 2008. Bush's supporters see the global war on terrorism as a "clash of civilizations" -- yet the civilization we are destroying in Iraq is part of our own.
IVAW Media, Iraq Veterans Against the War AlterNet: PEEK. August 25, 2008. "A Presidential candidate dedicated to an anti-war platform should have no objections to the goals of our organization."
Steve Czajkowski, Jurist Legal News and Research AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 24, 2008. Sgt. Ryan Weemer and Sgt. Jermaine Nelson took the 5th and refused to testify against their former squad leader on the killing of Iragi prisoners.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. August 24, 2008. Biden doesn't have clean hands when it comes to Iraq, but he's been a leader in re-establishing the rule-of-law in Bush's terror war.
Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 24, 2008. The choice of Biden calls into question whether Obama's offering a "change we can believe in."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. August 21, 2008. Like Iraq, Vietnam was not a noble cause. It's time we stopped letting politicians and the press perpetuate the McCain War Hero myth.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. August 20, 2008. McCain's campaign is an irrational mix of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that's proving scarily successful with uninformed voters.
Luke Rosiak, Open Secrets. August 20, 2008. Soldiers also support Ron Paul over John McCain, suggesting troops want to get out of Iraq sooner than later.
Anna Badkhen, Truthdig. August 20, 2008. "If you don't have money to pay bribes, you can't get a job," says one mechanical engineer. "I'd drive a garbage truck; I'd do anything,"
