Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. May 15, 2008. A military whistle-blower has come forward with information that contradicts the government's official story about the deaths of two journalists.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. May 15, 2008. A plotted sequence of events to build domestic U.S. support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq has hit some snags.
Dahr Jamail, Ali Al-Fadhily, IPS News. May 14, 2008. Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. May 14, 2008. Abandoned by the Bush Administration, a former ally is now destitute and living as an undocumented immigrant in Virginia
Jayne Lyn Stahl, AlterNet. May 9, 2008. In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.
Jim Lobe, IPS News. May 8, 2008. "The argument that Iraq should use its oil revenues to pay the U.S. sounds like the ultimate proof that we invaded Iraq for mercenary reasons."
Ali Gharib, IPS News. May 6, 2008. Two new ICG reports show that, at best, the "surge" was a temporary solution and that, in Iraq, "underlying issues will again come to the fore."
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2008. The Pentagon wants to Disney-fy the Green Zone and create a lasting cultural footprint in Baghdad.
Sami Moubayed, Asia Times. May 5, 2008. While U.S. casualties continue to mount -- and many Iraqi troops lay down their arms -- the Mahdi Army is waging a war of survival.
Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor. May 3, 2008. Reports of the Iraqi Army's performance range from good, with British military officers describing it as an "unmitigated disaster at every level."
Sarah Stillman, Truthdig. May 2, 2008. With American fast food readily available to U.S. troops, their expanding waistlines make a good metaphor for the general engorgement of the war.
Abigail Brown, Water For The Ages AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2008. The number of civilians in Iraq without water has risen from 50 percent to 70 percent during 2003 to 2007.
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.
