Marco Lanzagorta, PopMatters. April 6, 2008. "Die Hard" is a militaristic fantasy that serves as an allegory for an outnumbered and out-gunned America.
Michael C. Dawson, The Root. April 4, 2008. Forty years ago, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. radicalized a generation of African Americans.
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. March 28, 2008. While the conservative myth is dominant in the political press, there's no just no evidence voters want a hero for President
Thomas J. Gardner, Madison Capital Times. February 29, 2008. Torture is not a new phenomenon. Just ask the Memphis police officers who beat me forty years ago.
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.
Ray McGovern, Consortium News. January 27, 2008. How can our president speak so glibly about 10 more years in Iraq? Doesn't he know anything about Vietnam?
Adam Howard, AlterNet. January 21, 2008. People usually focus on the historic "I Have a Dream" speech, but it's the work King was doing at the end of his life that deserves more attention.
Michael Shank, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 16, 2008. Two of America's greatest foreign policy debacles have shaped the "straight-talker's" unbridled militarism.
Alex Jung, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. November 12, 2007. If we are to demonstrate our true patriotism, then we must rehabilitate the present and future lives of those veterans who carried the biggest burdens of our declarations of war.
William Astore, Tomdispatch.com. November 9, 2007. After holding so few high-level government and military officials accountable for failures in Iraq, Bush needs a scapegoat.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. October 30, 2007. As the occupation of Iraq continues, the number and magnitude of demonstrations appear to be shrinking. What is happening to the protest culture of wars past?
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. October 17, 2007. The peace tower in Iceland that Yoko Ono dreamed up 40 years ago has as much resonance now as it would have during the Vietnam War.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. September 12, 2007. As the autumn of 2007 begins, the reality of Uncle Sam as an unhinged mega-killer haunts a large minority of Americans.
AlterNetAugust 27, 2007. George Bush and other Iraq War supporters have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the killing fields of Cambodia -- an odd comparison considering that the US has direct responsibility for that holocaust.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. August 7, 2007. A terrific sequence from the new documentary "War Made Easy", which shows the identical pattern of lies that got us into both Vietnam and Iraq.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 5, 2007. Jim Booth: Thirty-nine years ago on this day an assassin's bullets took down RFK, I ask Bobby to forgive me and my generation for failing to pick up his torch.
Ron Kovic, Truthdig. May 28, 2007. A Vietnam veteran, paralyzed in the war, talks about his own struggles, those that the recently wounded in Iraq face, and how we can break this cycle of violence and begin to move in a different direction.
Robert Fisk, The Independent. April 12, 2007. Revealed: a new counter-insurgency strategy to carve up the city into sealed areas. The tactic failed in Vietnam. So what chance does it have in Iraq?
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. April 2, 2007. Awakening from a 40-year nap, an observer might wonder how much has changed since the last war that the United States stumbled over because it could not win.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. March 13, 2007. In an echo of Vietnam 40 years ago, the Iraq war continues while the antiwar movement loses its way among the ineffective posturing of Democratic leadership.
Andrew Lam, New America Media. February 27, 2007. Many comparisons have been made about the Iraq and Vietnam wars. But what Iraq may have finally done is not so much remind us of Vietnam as ultimately usurp it from our national psyche.
Dave Johnson, AlterNet. January 30, 2007. The media interest surrounding Private Joshua Sparling's claim that he was spit at during the Washington, D.C., protest merits skepticism considering that his previous claims of victimhood have turned out inaccurate, and that he's been a frequent associate of right-wing figures such as Sean Hannity and Oliver North.
