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.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. March 15, 2008. They will present photographs and videos, recorded with mobile phones and digital cameras of brutality, torture and murder.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. March 15, 2008. Reports of sexual assault reports had jumped by about 24 percent in 2006 and nearly 40 percent in 2005.
Attaturk, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 13, 2008. The occupation still rages, people still die, and $12 billion a month still gets spent over there.
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. March 12, 2008. They say it's "good news" Fallon resigned because Esquire didn't offer "any hint of how Fallon intends to defeat our enemies overnight."
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. March 11, 2008. A recent article in Esquire suggested that if Admiral Fallon was fired, the US will most likely go to war with Iran.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. March 6, 2008. I continue to think McCain's "temperament questions" is one of those side issues that could become a relevant factor in the campaign.
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: PEEK. February 20, 2008. A gruesome reminder that sexual violence is an inevitable part of militarism that does not end when the soldier leaves the battlefield.
Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. February 20, 2008. Truth be told, most Americans still look at military service as an abstract notion that rarely hits home.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 11, 2008. Defense experts are surprised at how generous the Bush administration is willing to be with the taxpayers' money.