Andrew Lam, New America Media. July 9, 2009. "When a man confesses yet cannot connect the horror he helped unleash with his own humanity, he is not to be trusted."
Will Bunch, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 6, 2009. McNamara was a warped prophet, a flesh-and-blood monument to the folly of militarism. And yet Americans failed to listen.
Mike Fritz, American News Project AlterNet: Video. May 5, 2009. Former Senator George McGovern claims military escalation will jeopardize Obama's domestic goals.
William Astore, Tomdispatch.com. April 20, 2009. These are the questions on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan that Obama should be asked at his press conferences.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. February 26, 2009. Obama refused to send the full 30,000 troops requested by his generals because they had no plan for how to use them.
Simon Maxwell Apter, The Nation. January 28, 2009. The "band of brothers" within the armed forces is taking a decidedly unbrotherly view of the debate over the Purple Heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr., AlterNet. January 19, 2009. As we face possible military escalation in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, King's speech against the Vietnam war is more relevant than ever.
Camillo "Mac" Bica, TruthOut.org. December 27, 2008. It's clear that the military's position on conscientious objectors is inconsistent with the demands both of morality and of law.
Faisal Abbas, Asharq Al-Awsat. December 25, 2008. The New Yorker's star reporter discusses Abu Ghraib, the "war on terror," and why U.S. reporters don't pay enough attention to the Arab press.
Sydney H. Schanberg, The Nation Institute. September 22, 2008. McCain has worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. August 21, 2008. Like Iraq, Vietnam was not a noble cause. It's time we stopped letting politicians and the press perpetuate the McCain War Hero myth.
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. August 19, 2008. He should have some fun with his newfound not-stardom, with all the not-appearing on news programs and not-being cited in the print media.
Emily Wilson, AlterNet. July 25, 2008. Veteran journalist Robert Scheer on the media's complicity in war, the rise of the neocons and how even Nixon got some things right.