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.
Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor. July 16, 2008. When veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan bring their troubles home, police and judges often are the first to deal with them.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. July 4, 2008. The latest episode of the Department of Veterans Affairs' callous denial of veterans' suffering is a continuation of a long tradition.
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.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. June 11, 2008. Americans do need to cut down on their resource consumption. But the key variable in the high cost of oil is Bush's failed foreign policy.
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.
