Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 13, 2009. A wave of prosecutions and some 25 "theft probes" are underway, but it's the inevitable result of a Pentagon policy that has bred rampant corruption.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. February 27, 2009. More U.S. troops in Afghanistan will spark a backlash in which religion combines with nationalism to oppose foreign intervention.
Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate. February 27, 2009. Not for nothing is that country called "the burial ground of empires," "a guerilla's paradise" and "the theme park of problems."
Dahr Jamail, Tomdispatch.com. February 14, 2009. Fallujah remains devastated, even as the U.S. military delivers shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills to the sheiks in charge.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. February 3, 2009. The U.S. likes to cast elections as proof of the legitimacy of the occupation, but many Iraqis saw their votes as a way to end it.
Jodie Evans, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog AlterNet: Video. December 12, 2008. Civilian deaths in Afghanistan will only increase if the U.S. commits more troops.
Gary Brecher, AlterNet. November 26, 2008. The failed defense secretary pens a historical cover-up on Iraq and reveals more wild stupidity with his advice on Afghanistan.
Ray McGovern, Consortium News. November 24, 2008. Obama needs a defense secretary with the courage to speak out and halt the lunacy of more war, not a yes-man Bush holdover.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 16, 2008. Rosen: "People no longer trust the government. People fear the police at least as much as they fear the Taliban."
Anand Gopal, Tomdispatch.com. October 10, 2008. Afghanistan is filled with poor, jobless people who have seen their families blown up by Americans. And they're itching to get revenge.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. September 10, 2008. McCain is falsely clinging to his support of more troops in Iraq as the reason for decreasing violence. And the media is buying it.
Middle East OnlineSeptember 9, 2008. General Davis Petraeus starts as chief of Central Command in October, at a time when the administration is refocusing on Afghanistan.
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.
Omid Memarian, IPS News. August 14, 2008. As the U.S keeps accusing Iran of arming Shiite militias, Iraqi officials are ignoring its claims in favor of diplomacy with neighboring governments.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. August 8, 2008. The United States has far less control over events in Iraq than politicians and the press would have us believe.
Juan Cole, JuanCole.com. July 29, 2008. The bloodbath in Baghdad has resulted in fewer ethnically mixed neighborhoods, leading to the recent drop in violence.
Adele M. Stan, Media Consortium AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 25, 2008. "Now, militarily, the surge has achieved some of its goals. Politically, I don't think so."
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. July 25, 2008. The former interim PM criticized the surge, the constitution, and warned that Iraqi forces are not loyal to Iraq, but to sectarian militias.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 25, 2008. While the Anbar awakening is an important contributor to the drop in violence in Iraq, it is only one of several factors.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 30, 2008. Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as "success" or as "good news" is essentially obscene.
