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.
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."
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."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 23, 2008. Weeks after defending the war before Congress, General David Petraeus is tapped to become the head of U.S. Central Command.
Steve Niva, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 23, 2008. Through its awful Iraq strategy, the U.S. is re-creating itself in the image of a country permanently at war with the Arab and Muslim world.
Jim Lobe, IPS News. April 16, 2008. A new assessment finds that the decrease in violence over the past six months has not led to political reconciliation.
Jeffrey Kaye, Invictus AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 1, 2008. While Bush and his media toadies tout Anbar province as a "success" story for the "surge," conditions in the city jail reveal a different reality.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. March 12, 2008. The Sunni insurgent strategy of flooding U.S.-backed paramilitaries with their own fighters appears to be making it stronger than ever.
