Michael Schwartz, AlterNet. November 13, 2009. The military wants to integrate itself into campus life and therefore gain routine access to rank-and file students to recruit regular soldiers
Aram Roston, The Nation. November 13, 2009. The U.S. government is funding the very forces its troops are fighting -- funds that add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban.
Megan Carpentier, Air America Media. October 22, 2009. Occupy the world's largest heroin producer in Afghanistan and it's no wonder the methadone clinics are overpacked -- but the military is mum on the subject.
ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. September 30, 2009. Warning: Some graphic images.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal told Congress that the measure of success in Afghanistan should be "the number of Afghans shielded from violence." Fail.
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. September 21, 2009. In Washington, calls are growing for Obama to training more Afghan troops and police rather than sending in more American troops. But this is pure fantasy.
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. September 10, 2009. The death of a Triple Canopy contractor in the Green Zone resembles an earlier electrocution ruled to be a "negligent homicide."
Nir Rosen, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. September 1, 2009. "A public affairs officer told me it was the most alarming report about a journalist that he had ever seen."
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. August 28, 2009. The Pentagon hired a controversial contractor to screen journalists seeking to embed with U.S. forces.
Malalai Joya, AlterNet. August 20, 2009. We Afghans know this election will change nothing. It is merely a show of democracy put on by and for the West, to legitimize its future puppet in Afghanistan.
John Nichols, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. August 20, 2009. Fifty-one percent of those surveyed for a new Washington Post-ABC News poll now say the human and economic cost of the war is too great.
Agence France Presse August 3, 2009. The meeting on Sunday was not publicly announced beforehand and Gates did not bring reporters with him as he usually does on foreign trips.
David Edwards, Stephen Webster, Raw Story. July 24, 2009. Fox News analyst Ralph Peters said on July 19 that the Taliban should murder 23-year-old Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl.
Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. "If the Iraqi forces required further training and further support, we shall examine this then at that time based on the needs of Iraq," Maliki said.
Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. The use of physicians at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has forced medical professionals to violate their ethics codes, according to findings published in a medical journal.
Agence France Presse July 20, 2009. The Taliban released a video over the weekend of a visibly-shaken captive U.S. soldier who was snatched by the Islamist militants in Afghanistan late last month.
Agence France Presse July 16, 2009. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has proposed cuts to the wasteful F-22 fighter program. "If we can't get this right, what on earth can we get right?" he said Thursday.
Jon Soltz, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. June 22, 2009. Hey lawmakers: The military doesn't want them. Troops can't use them. So don't tie this pork to troops or veterans.
Agence France Presse June 17, 2009. A Congressional panel voted 61-0 to covering the Pentagon's budget for 2010, but provided no money for moving detainees to U.S. soil.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. June 10, 2009. Half of the personnel working for the U.S. government in Iraq and Afghanistan are private contractors. This is a colossal rip-off to taxpayers.
Greg Mitchell, Huffington Post. June 8, 2009. Dick Cheney took the article's questionable facts and ran with them, arguing against trying Gitmo prisoners in the U.S.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: World. June 1, 2009. Newly released Pentagon statistics show that in both Iraq and Afghanistan the number of armed contractors is rising.
