Dahr Jamail, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. July 2, 2009. From suicide to desertion to refusal to deploy -- service members' dissent may be growing into something far larger.
Staff, Iraq Oil Report AlterNet: War on Iraq. December 11, 2008. Kirkuk is Iraq's second most important oil area, and the scene of dispute between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs.
Ray McGovern, Consortium News. April 23, 2008. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the U.S. last week against a macabre backdrop featuring reports of torture, execution and war. He chose not to notice.
Michael Schwartz, Tomdispatch.com. December 5, 2007. According to the Bush Administration, the worse things go in Iraq, the more our military is needed; and the better they go, the more our military is needed.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. October 26, 2007. With 11 actions planned across the country, the U.S. will show this Saturday that we will not be still or silent until our troops are home. Will you join us?
Bill Maher, Huffington Post. September 29, 2007. Bush is fighting a war with phony accounting tricks. They fudged the numbers to get us into Iraq and cooked the books to keep us there.
Robert Scheer, September 5, 2007. The dog and pony show continues as the Democrats, wanting Bush to hang himself with his own rope, will deny him nothing.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. September 5, 2007. It appears that many influential people in this country have learned nothing from the last five years.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. August 16, 2007. The number of taxpayer-paid private contractors in Iraq, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of amputations performed on U.S. war-wounded: a compilation of numbers puts Iraq into perspective.
Michael Schwartz, Tomdispatch.com. August 2, 2007. The Congressional benchmarks we keep hearing about are almost completely beside the point. They don’t even represent the key goals of the “surge.”
Peter Galbraith, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch. July 19, 2007. Neither the President nor the war's intellectual architects are prepared to admit this. Nonetheless, the specter of defeat shapes their thinking in telling ways.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. July 10, 2007. No matter how many Republicans abandon the president on Iraq, it is Democrats who must seize this moment and take the lead in bringing our troops home.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 26, 2007. Oliver Willis: Republican Senator Dick Lugar calls for a reduction of US troops in Iraq, but don't give him too much credit yet.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 19, 2007. After four years of war, our troops in Iraq have become acclimated to atrocity. The rage that soldiers feel after a roadside bomb explodes is one that is easily directed over time to innocent civilians -- a short psychological leap, but a massive moral one.
Sonali Kolhatkar, Uprising Radio. June 7, 2007. Noam Chomsky speaks about the status of democracy in Iraq, U.S. imperialism over Latin America, and the media's shallow coverage of foreign affairs -- all topics explored in his latest book, Interventions.
John Nichols, The Nation. June 2, 2007. The antiwar movement took Cindy Sheehan for granted. It was only when she resigned from a role that she never sought that anyone bothered to think of what an essential player she had become.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 30, 2007. Peace activist Cindy Sheehan has announced she is stepping back from her role as a leading campaigner against the Iraq war. Amy Goodman talks with her about her decision.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. May 30, 2007. Her Way, a new book about Hillary Clinton, documents her entire Senate career and the triangulation and shiftiness in her stance regarding the war as she tried to keep step with public opinion.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. May 24, 2007. We won't be able to change the militaristic direction of this country without effectively confronting the congressional Democrats who are fueling the engines of destruction.
Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com. May 23, 2007. Congress is poised to vote on a funding bill for Iraq that offers no change of course. Those who vote for it will be undermining the troops and enabling a rogue President.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 23, 2007. Lane Hudson: The American people put the Democrats in charge of Congress to end the War in Iraq, so now they need to do their job.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 17, 2007. Lane Hudson: Bush's War Czar creation is yet another insult to those of us who believe in the U.S. Constitution.
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