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.
Roberto Lovato, Of America AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2008. Cinco de Mayo has become a recruiting ground for a military struggling to sustain troop levels.
Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy. May 5, 2008. The Pentagon pundit scandal was not only a corrupt marriage of propaganda and corporate lobbying -- it was completely illegal.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. April 29, 2008. The Pentagon says it's halting its propaganda program, but the news media is still quite about its role in leading us to war.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. April 29, 2008. An activist travels to the DoD's annual suicide prevention conference, only to find the military brass living in a parallel universe.
Gareth Porter, Huffington Post. April 21, 2008. An investigative report reveals the how TV military analysts have a vested economic interest in selling the Bush admin's happy talk about Iraq.
Nick Turse, Metropolitan Books. April 12, 2008. Pentagon elites and high government officials are tee-ing off at taxpayer expense at hundreds of courses all over the planet.
Liza Sabater, Awearness AlterNet: Video. April 10, 2008. A soldier filming a drive down a road or highway for like what seems like an eternity and then, boom!
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 4, 2008. If there was objection to the Cheney JAG end-run, why wasn't it getting more media play?
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. April 3, 2008. Whither Donald Rumsfeld in this public discussion? And, for that matter, Dick Cheney, in all of this minion kabuki?
Brad, Sadly No! AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 2, 2008. In other words, torture is only torture when the torturer feels guilty about doing it afterwards.
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.
Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report. March 1, 2008. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has fomented no less than fourteen wars in Africa -- enough is enough.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. January 21, 2008. As recently as 2006, the Pentagon was refusing to release data on how many soldiers have suffered brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. December 8, 2007. The neocons may have lost a lot of clout with Bush, but it's dangerous to assume they are out of power.
Paddy, Brave New Films AlterNet: PEEK. November 13, 2007. Paddy: The House fell three votes short of winning a veto-proof margin as it sent the measure to Bush.
Amanda Terkel, AlterNet: PEEK. October 1, 2007. Amanda Terkel: Blackwater was involved in the fatal shooting of 11 Iraqi civilians, yet our government keeps looking the other way.