Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: World. July 8, 2009. Brave New Foundation explores the disproportionate hardships of war on women and their families, and how you can help.
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.
Brian Roa, TruthOut.org. July 1, 2009. In Chicago, there's a push to replace public schools with military academies. This model may soon spread to the rest of the country.
David Price, CounterPunch. June 24, 2009. The "Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program" may become a permanent budget item, making universities unwitting agents of state intelligence.
Abe Forman-Greenwald, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: Video. June 23, 2009. Gay and lesbian partners of service members forced by law to sacrifice in silence.
Matt Kennard, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. June 17, 2009. Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join.
Marjorie Cohn, Kathleen Gilberd, PoliPoint Press. June 13, 2009. The authors of a new book share the success stories of war resisters and ways soldiers and citizens can use their rights to end the wars of today.
Agence France Presse June 10, 2009. Washington is not looking to put a military base in Uzbekistan, a US diplomat said Wednesday, despite being on the verge of losing a key base in the region used to support operations in Afghanistan.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. June 9, 2009. Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: World. May 27, 2009. One of the costs of committing troops to Iraq and Afghanistan is that we don't have the resources to effectively deal with this.
Tonda MacCharles, The Toronto Star. May 26, 2009. More troops, more searches, more surveilance drones. The U.S. is taking Canadians' pictures as they cross the border, and their biometrics.
Helen Benedict, The Nation. May 25, 2009. More women have fought and died in Iraq than in all the wars since World War II combined. Yet the military continues to treat them as inferior.
Susannah Breslin, The Daily Beast. April 25, 2009. When Lily Burana married an Army officer, she left behind her life in strip clubs and became a cake-baking military wife. Then came the bombshells.
Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 21, 2009. Two disastrous wars and the economic meltdown have shaken America's superpower status. What can Obama do to help shape a sustainable global order?
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 15, 2009. Understanding the cost of war in Afghanistan, and just in time for tax day.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: Media and Technology. April 6, 2009. Following the new policy, the media were allowed to cover the return after the military received consent from family members of the soldier.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 3, 2009. This sounds relatively encouraging, but it would be even better if we had a sense of how long the review process is going to take.
Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. February 12, 2009. Seriously ... $300 million dollars ... to the guy who invented the Roomba ... to build violent robots. Seriously.
