Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. May 22, 2008. Despite some Republican political shenanigans, Jim Webb's GI Bill passed the senate with overwhelming support.
Mike Connery, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 30, 2008. John McCain is supporting a watered-down version of the new GI Bill that will primarily benefit career officers.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. April 3, 2008. Our government owes our troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan the opportunity to receive full educational benefits.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Election 2008. March 20, 2008. The cost of the new G.I. bill is projected to be about $2.5 billion a year — roughly the cost of U.S. operations in Iraq for one week.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. March 14, 2008. The truth is that White House officials tried to undermine Congress on Iraq and were forced to muster a weak excuse when they were caught.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. February 29, 2008. I may be moving ahead of the discussion a little bit, but I have always found that in order to help frame a discussion it is important to start early.
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. February 16, 2008. Staffers have no choice but to adopt a defensive and insecure posture, their limited range of motion gets constrained by those at the top.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: War on Iraq. February 12, 2008. "I'm not convinced we don't need to have a lawsuit ready," Webb told the Huffington Post.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 26, 2007. Steve Benen: The Kyl-Lieberman amendment, which calls Iran's armed forces a terrorist organization, just passed overwhelmingly, 76-22.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 20, 2007. Steve Benen: A Republican colleague told Sen. Conrad (D-ND) it's their strategy to prevent any accomplishment of the Democratic Congress.
Satyam Khanna, AlterNet: PEEK. September 13, 2007. Satyam Khanna: "Armageddon" is brewing between Petraeus and Fallon because they have "profoundly different views of the U.S. role in Iraq.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. July 15, 2007. On "Meet the Press", Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) takes surge supporter Republican Lindsey Graham to task for "putting words in the soldier's mouths."
Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. January 24, 2007. Last night, Webb offered a populist, anti-corporate stand on economics and a blunt attack on Bush for "recklessly" dragging our country into war, while Hillary and Obama barely uttered a peep.
Bob Moser, The Nation. October 21, 2006. Thanks to the spiral of controversy set off by GOP Va. Senator George Allen's now-legendary "macaca moment," Democrat James Webb has a genuine shot at toppling a Republican incumbent, even as he resists playing the game of politics.
Doug Ireland, In These Times. October 13, 2006. Gary Webb, the legendary journalist who scooped the big papers and found himself punished for it, teaches the lesson that it's often dangerous to speak truth to power.
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