Andy Kroll, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. Author Beverly Gologorsky explores the tragic, scarring experiences for Vietnam vets in her new novel, and discusses the parallels she sees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Paul Gorrell, Religion Dispatches. August 14, 2009. The classic protest musical, Hair, is back to tackle what many consider to be the biggest civil rights issue of our era: marriage equality.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. July 25, 2008. McCain is running as a military leader -- but he isn't one. And yet the myth of military leadership is the foundation of his claim to the presidency.
Tom Fawthrop, Comment Is Free. February 13, 2008. Washington denies responsibility for the effects of chemical warfare, fearing that legal precedent may limit future military endeavors.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. September 12, 2007. Once again, we have a general repeatedly promising to save Western civilization by turning the corner in yet another intractable and unnecessary foreign war.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. August 7, 2007. A grand total of two people in the entire Congress were able to resist a blood-drenched blank check for the Vietnam War. Decades later, a single Congress woman stood up after September 11, 2001 and voted against the gathering madness.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: Video. July 30, 2007. Katrina vanden Heuvel: Normon Soloman's "War Made Easy" aims to become a valuable new organizing tool for the anti-war movement in America.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. July 19, 2007. Listening to a video clip of the late Senator Morse speaking in the 1960s exposes the big media lie that members of Congress are doing all they can to impose a schedule for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Adam Howard, AlterNet. July 11, 2007. A new film, War Made Easy uses archival footage to show the continuity of the propaganda messages that have been used to to justify war from LBJ to George W. Bush.
Bobby Muller, AlterNet. January 11, 2007. A well-known leader of Vietnam vets, paralyzed in combat, describes the frighteningly familiar path that is leading us into a widening conflict: With such a small percentage of the population bearing the burden of the war in Iraq, the sense of shared sacrifice has been lost.
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