Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 10, 2009. The two sides blamed each other for the confrontation, which left one North Korean boat engulfed in flames.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: World. October 6, 2009. According to the Clarus Research Group, 68 percent of Americans believe we will neither win nor lose in Afghanistan. Here's why that's bad.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. October 6, 2009. War memorials and museums sanitize the instruments of death that turn young soldiers into killers, and small villages in Vietnam or Afghanistan into hellish bonfires.
Jeff Huber, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009. There has never been such thing as a triumphant counter-insurgency strategy. Why are we deluding ourselves?
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. September 26, 2009. As Obama is facing a lose-lose proposition in Afghanistan, we have to look hard at the role of Gen. McChrystal and the political motivation of Gen. Petraeus.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. September 23, 2009. Sources say Stanley McChrystal may consider quitting if Obama fails to give him 15,000 additional troops in Afghanistan.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. September 22, 2009. As much as it might seem that most of us are going along, living peaceful lives, there's another kind of America that operates on the same soil -- a warfare state.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. September 22, 2009. Touting an unabashed pro-war posture, the Post appears unwilling to engage in an actual conversation about Afghanistan.
Jodie Evans, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog AlterNet: World. September 18, 2009. It will take constant pressure on Congress and the White House to get them to pull back from the fog of war.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 6, 2009. The two central issues in our national discourse are more intertwined than we want to believe.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. September 4, 2009. It's tempting to think of Dick Cheney as a cranky old men stirring up controversy to sell books. But Cheney must not be underestimated.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, September 3, 2009. I am deeply concerned that we appear to be getting pulled into another quagmire from which we don’t know how to exit – this time, in Afghanistan.
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. August 13, 2009. Intelligence analysts say that we'll need our military to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics.
John Feffer, Tomdispatch.com. August 7, 2009. We have our own rich tradition of suicide bombers -- and our own unfortunate tendency to kill civilians in our military campaigns.
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. July 31, 2009. The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment will condemn the U.S. to a devastating trio of consequences.
Thomas Greco, Jr., AlterNet. July 27, 2009. If we desire to have a peaceful, equitable society, the power of lending must go to people and their communities.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. July 27, 2009. We can't just "move forward." We need to face who we've been and just how badly we've acted, if we care to become something better.
David Bromwich, Tomdispatch.com. July 22, 2009. Younger generations of Americans are now being taught to expect no end of war -- and no end of wars. It wasn't always like that.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. July 20, 2009. The Obama administration is shortchanging the auditors responsible for ensuring that taxpayer dollars don't go into the pockets of swindlers.
Siun, AlterNet: PEEK. July 18, 2009. Dean claimed that we must expand the war in Afghanistan for the sake of the country's women. Not according to them.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. July 18, 2009. The reviewer finds herself surrounded, not by Jimmy Choo-clad starlets, but by flip-flop-wearing interns and men donning khakis and polo shirts.
