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.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. November 5, 2008. There is wide speculation that Robert Gates will stay on as Secretary of Defense under Obama. This would be a huge mistake.
Middle East Online AlterNet: PEEKOctober 31, 2008. Sunni MP Mohammad Al-Dainy says there are over 400 prisons, controlled by the Iraqi government and the U.S. military.
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.
VoteVets.org AlterNet: War on IraqSeptember 8, 2008. "It is simply unacceptable for any member of the military, or civilian, to discuss these kinds of classified details -- especially with the media."
Middle East OnlineAugust 30, 2008. Citing stronger domestic security forces and a need for troops in Afghanistan, a U.S. general says control will be handed over in "just a few days."
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. August 26, 2008. In his demands for a U.S. troop withdrawal, the Iraqi PM is hardly the tough negotiator the media makes him out to be.
Sarah Lazare, AlterNet. August 21, 2008. The first war resister to be deported from Canada since the Vietnam War faces court-martial and three years in jail. Who is next?
Fatih Abdulsalam, Azzaman. August 19, 2008. Among the U.S.'s most vociferous criticisms of Saddam's regime was its practice of inhumane, summary arrests. Now it is guilty of the same.
Mina Al-Oraibi, Asharq Al-Awsat. August 18, 2008. Iraqi and American officials are reportedly close to reaching an agreement on U.S. forces -- but there are some contradictions in their statements.
Douglas MacKinnon, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 29, 2008. "When the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call labels your latest novel "a Christian Jihad," angry emails are sure to follow."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. June 25, 2008. The author of Antiwar Soldier discusses the GI movement, the election and why "the military needs racism" to fight its wars.
Dahr Jamail, IPS News. June 4, 2008. Continuing the Winter Soldier hearings in Maryland and D.C., Iraq veterans tell a Seattle audience stories of the daily atrocities committed in Iraq.
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."
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?
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Video. April 4, 2008. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if McHenry and Issa were Dems, Fox News would talk about nothing else for the foreseeable future.
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?
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. April 1, 2008. The absence of rigorous prosecution perpetuates a culture tolerant of sexual assault — an attitude that says "boys will be boys."
Attaturk, Firedoglake AlterNet: Video. March 19, 2008. And today, George W. Bush, will go to the Pentagon to give yet another "pep talk" to a captive audience again expressing how awesome it has all been.
