Pentagon Pundits Scandal: Ignored
Free Press : Media Analysis
Why is the media ignoring one of the biggest political scandals in recent memory?
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Phil Donahue on the Bleak Future of Iraq
The Young Turks : US Wars & Military Action
Why isn't Phil Donahue back on television? Because he speaks the truth.
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Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 US Casualties a Year
Alexander Cockburn : US Military
The psychological wounds of war will be with us for years to come.
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Iraq's Ruined Library Soldiers On
R.H. Lossin : History
Five years ago this week, US troops stood by as mobs sacked Iraq's revered National Library and Archives. Despite little outside help, a cultural treasure soldiers on.
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Phil Donahue's War
John Nichols : Film
His new documentary is breaking the taboo that says Americans cannot stomach the reality of the Iraq War.
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Painful Performance
Robert Scheer : US Military
By urging lawmakers to stay the course in Iraq, General David Petraeus remained loyal to his President, but failed the American people.
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Contract Justice
Jeremy Scahill : Blackwater
An Iraqi translator is prosecuted and Blackwater has its contract renewed for another year, armed and dangerous in Baghdad.
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Another KBR Rape Case
Karen Houppert : War Profiteering
In the wake of Jamie Leigh Jones's highly publicized charges, a woman comes forward with new allegations of a brutal sexual assault and cover-up at a KBR camp in Iraq.
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Inside the Surge
Nir Rosen
The US occupation has torn Iraq into fragments, and sectarian militias are on the rise.
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Chalabi's Lobby
Aram Roston : Corporate Influence in Washington
The infamous Iraqi exile worked hard to make a business of Iraq, on the US government's tab.
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Shown Up by Sadr, Again
Patrick Cockburn
To the humiliation of the US and Iraqi governments, the cleric's forces have faced down the Iraqi Army and are in control of Basra and half of Baghdad.
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An Unreported Scandal
Robert Scheer
The Bush Administration has presided over the highest run-up in military spending since World War II. As our economy collapses, why can't the media connect the dots?
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It's a Scandal, All Right
Mary Mapes : Journalists & Journalism
Media pundits and bloggers bloviate when journalists make mistakes. But where is their outrage over the biggest fraud of all: the way the media followed Bush to war?
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The Lessons of Basra
Robert Dreyfuss : Iran
The latest round of Iraq's Shiite vs. Shiite civil war was to have been Bush's defining moment. The result: utter humiliation for the US and the Iraqi government.
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Winter Soldier
Laila Al-Arian & Laura Hanna
In three days of wrenching public testimony in Washington, DC, Iraq War veterans shared the horrors of war.
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Winter Soldiers Speak
Laila Al-Arian : US Military
In compelling public testimony, US soldiers and Iraqi civilians bear witness to the horrors of combat.
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Iraq: The View from Year Six
Tom Engelhardt
In March 2009, no matter who is president, Iraq will still be hell on Earth.
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The Idiot's Grin
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Presiding over a disastrous war and an unconscionable taxpayer bailout of Wall Street, why is George W. Bush still smiling?
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The Experts Speak on Iraq
Victor Navasky & Christopher Cerf : Non-Fiction
To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.
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Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
Tom Hayden : Vietnam War
One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
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The War and the Working Class
Michael Zweig : U.S. Economy
Young people drawn into combat by the "economic draft" are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.
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The Wages of Peace
Robert Pollin & Heidi Garrett-Peltier : U.S. Economy
Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.
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Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself?...
Victor Navasky & Christopher Cerf : U.S. Economy
Unwise words from the "experts" who promised a cost-free war.
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It's the War Economy, Stupid!
The Editors : U.S. Economy
Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.
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Class War (chart)
Who's losing and who's winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?
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Washington-Based Antiwar Coalition Re-emerges
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
Targets McCain, Iraq costs.
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Obama's Mercenary Position
Jeremy Scahill : War Profiteering
He calls private security forces "unaccountable" but may use them in Iraq. Meanwhile, Clinton wants to ban them. UPDATED
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Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?
Robert Dreyfuss : Middle East
Maybe. But Iraqis mistrust Iran as much as they do the United States.
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'End the War in 2009'
Tom Hayden : Barack Obama
Barack Obama has hastened his timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, setting the stage for an election battle with John McCain and the forces of neoconservatism.
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Antiwar Group Collapses
Tom Hayden : Peace Activism
Tom Matzzie, leader of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, has resigned his position and dissolved a major and well-funded coalition of anti-war groups.
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Dahr Jamail: Beyond the Green Zone
Jeremy Scahill : Journalists & Journalism
An independent journalist talks about what's really happening in Iraq, and why neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama have a plan for ending the catastrophe.
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From Guernica to Iraq
Tom Engelhardt : Journalists & Journalism
There's an escalating air war in Iraq; why don't American media consider it serious news?
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Denial in the Corps
Kathy Dobie : US Military
A stressed-out Marine Corps sends its troops on repeated tours to Iraq and then tosses them out when they come back traumatized.
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Memo: Where Do the Democrats Stand on Iraq?
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
A deep look into how the candidates propose to bring the troops home and deal with the continuing military dilemma.
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CSI: Iraq
Tom Engelhardt : Civilian Casualties
Despite the cosmetic acts of President Bush, his undertakers and enablers, America's Iraq is still a corpse.
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Twin Disasters
The Editors : U.S. Economy
When will the candidates cease their petty sniping and address the real issues: the Iraq War and the faltering economy?
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Nationalists Stirring in Iraq
Robert Dreyfuss
An emerging Sunni-Shiite coalition could change the face of Iraq--if the United States steps back and gets out of the way.
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Anti-War Lessons From New Hampshire
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
How will Democratic candidates end the war? None of the scenarios offered to New Hampshire voters really addressed the issue.
2007
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Iraq's Civil Resistance
The secular left brings together unionists, women's organizations and students.
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War Comes Home to Iowa
The absence of a definitive antiwar candidate has divided the state's peace activists.
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Battle of the Surge
Don't believe the GOP triumphalists: the decline in violence in Iraq does not mean the surge is working.
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Kevin Rudd, Agent of Change?
Antony Loewenstein : Australia
He's greener and less hawkish than his predecessor, but is Australia's next prime minister really all that different?
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Cheering for Ron Paul
Robert Scheer : Presidential Election 2008
It takes a libertarian Republican to shame Democrats into acknowledging the true cost of this war for ordinary Americans.
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VideoNation: The Cost of War
Katrina vanden Heuvel : War & Peace
Democratic candidates need to make the war as a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human, costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Blackwater's Brothers
Jeremy Scahill : State Department
A deepening conflict-of-interest scandal envelops the Krongard brothers--Howard, a State Department official overseeing Blackwater contracts, and his brother Alvin, who has long been cozy with the mercenary firm.
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'All' Cowboys Out Now
Firms like Blackwater operate in a demand-based industry, and it is this demand that must be cut off.
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Alaska Warms to The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Dissent After 9/11
In this cut from Blue Man/Red State, a documentary on Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, Juneau peace activists give Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel a warm welcome and a helping hand.
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America's Empty Pockets
Robert Scheer : Democratic Party
The President is determined to bankrupt the nation, morally and financially. And who in Congress has the will to stop him?
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Listen to the Troops
As Iraq veterans speak out against a war in shambles, leading Democrats are wavering about quickly removing our troops from this deepening quagmire.
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Watada's Double Jeopardy
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
A legal drama is unfolding in Washington State over whether an Army officer who refuses to serve in Iraq has the same Constitutional rights as the rest of us.
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Iraqis Sue Blackwater for Baghdad Killings
Blackwater USA now faces wrongful death suits in US court brought by survivors of three Iraqi civilians killed in the September 16 Baghdad shootings.
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Calling Blackwater to Account
Susan Burke of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explain details of a lawsuit against Blackwater USA filed in connection with a Baghdad shooting. Video courtesy of Democracy Now.
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Apocalypse Now?
According to Chalmers Johnson, Bush's imperial presidency may be the final chapter in the collapse of American democracy.
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Pre-empt Preventive War
: Iran
The path back to sanity begins by repealing the Kyl-Lieberman amendment and prohibiting military action in Iran without Congressional approval.
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No Child Left Alive
Daniel Mootz : Youth, Education, & Children
Is there an Army recruiter in your future?
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Season of Scandals
Sportswriters hyperventilate over scandals big and small. But when a football hero and Bush critic is shot three times at close range in Afghanistan, by friendly fire, why does no one bat an eye?
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We Count, They Don't
The Bush Administration once professed there were no body counts in its war on terror. But in the metrics-driven post-surge accounting in Iraq, it turns out it's been counting everything.
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Toothless in Babylon
In the gray dawn of the twenty-first century, only a handful of lawmakers dare to stand up and be counted on matters of war and peace.
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The State Department's Hired Guns
Why did the State Department tolerate--and pay to conceal--the crimes of its Blackwater guards in Iraq?
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Northern Ireland, South Africa in Secret Iraq Peace Talks
Peacemakers from countries that have moved from sectarian strife towards national reconciliation met with Iraq Sunnis and Shi'as in an effort to resolved the crisis.
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Making a Killing
Jeremy Scahill : War Profiteering
Who will mete out justice for America's merchants of death?
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Specialist Town Takes His Case to Washington
As a wounded soldier battles to right a wrong, the cavalry arrives.
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End the Shadow War
Blackwater USA should answer for the crimes of its soldier-contractors in Iraq. Calls for withdrawal from Iraq must also include private security contractors.
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How Bush's Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry
Want proof the Iraq War was all about oil? Here it is.
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Biden One-Ups Bush
Robert Scheer : Presidential Election 2008
Instead of spending even more money armoring soldiers' vehicles, he should work harder at trying to end the war.
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Bush's War Funding Safety Net
Even if Congress refused to authorize more money for the Iraq debacle, the White House could make an end run via an obscure Civil War statute.
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Order 17
A closer look at the US rule that gives military contractors like Blackwater a free pass to murder, terrorize and pillage their way through Iraq.
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Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law
Jeremy Scahill : War Profiteering
Acting with impunity and immune from prosecution, a shadow army funded by US taxpayers is fueling the spiraling violence in Iraq.
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Politicize the War
Christopher Hayes : US Military
By sending Petraeus to Capitol Hill, the White House tried to smuggle in a radical war agenda under the mantle of an outstanding soldier. And people fell for it.
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Taking Power
Jonathan Schell : Constitutional Questions
America is sleepwalking into one-man rule. What can the Democrats do about it?
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Prelude to a Police State in Iraq
Widespread corruption and human rights abuses among Iraqi security forces could make Baghdad the capital of a Shiite police state employing the classic methods of dirty war.
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The Mercenary Factor
Robert Scheer : War Profiteering
Who elected Blackwater and other hired guns to rule the world? The banning of Blackwater in Iraq sheds more light on the checkbook imperialism fueling Bush's state of perpetual war.
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Blackwater Banned
Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains in this September 17 CNN interview the impact of the Iraqi government's decision to ban Blackwater USA from operating in the country, following an incident in which its operatives were implicated in the killings of eight Iraqis.
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Why the Silence?
Arthur Waskow : Judaism & Jews
Leaders of the Jewish community who have resisted calls to voice opposition to the war can no longer justify their failure to speak out.
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Kentucky at War
Opposition to the Iraq War has created some unlikely alliances in Kentucky, much to the chagrin of Senator Mitch McConnell.
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A General Dissembles
Of course, Gen. David Petraeus sees tangible progress and predicts success in the Iraq war. What wonders couldn't generals achieve with more troops and more time?
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Bush's 9/11 Tradeoff
Ari Melber : Civil Rights & Liberties
The Administration has come to regard the law as a barrier to security and a literal weapon of our enemies, and sees crime as a legitimate tool to fight terror.
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Surge 2
David Petraeus is not a man preparing to leave Iraq. His report to Congress serves as a glimpse of coming attractions for Surge 2.
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Iraq Progress: By the Numbers
As General David Petraeus makes his case for continuing the war, here's an accounting of the real costs.
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The Myopic Iraq Debate
Like the war itself, the unfolding Congressional hearings on what to do next raise more questions than answers.
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The New Counterinsurgency
The Army's updated Field Manual draws on an old, blood-steeped tradition.
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Why We Must Leave Iraq
End the occupation, abandon the pretense that only American power can bring order to the region and atone for the human catastrophe we have caused.
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Bush's Deceitful Smiles
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
A deceitful President, masking the chaos his $3 trillion war has unleashed with photo-ops from Iraq, now confronts cynical Democrats in Congress poised to write another check, willfully blind to the waste of US and Iraqi lives.
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Bush's Napoleonic Folly
Bush's war on Iraq mirrors Napoleon's invasion of Egypt--two disastrous attempts to reshape the Middle East.
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The Real Iraq Progress Report
The parade of political tourists to Iraq in recent weeks suggests that this murderous adventure will continue well into the next presidency.
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The Money Surge
Nicholas von Hoffman : US Military
In an effort to bolster the surge and tamp down violence in Iraq, the US military is buying off insurgents. But what happens if they don't stay bought?
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What 'Progress' in Iraq Really Means
The cost of deploying a soldier, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of Iraqi babies born underweight. A portrait-by-numbers of the Iraq catastrophe.
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Who's Sorry Now?
Michael Ignatieff apologizes for being wrong on Iraq. If only mainstream media acknowledged all the people who were right.
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The Terror America Wrought
Take a moment to remember the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, connecting the dots between that attack and US actions in Iraq sixty-two years later.
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Red Zone, Green Zone
Tom Engelhardt : Civilian Casualties
Pundits speculate the US can win stability if not victory in Iraq, but beyond the philosophical Green Zone they inhabit, life becomes ever more desperate for Iraqi civilians.
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Soccer Lions of Mesopotamia
Don't buy the argument that Iraq's triumph in the Asian Cup is a miracle moment brought to you by Uncle Sam.
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The Making of No End in Sight
Charles Ferguson answers questions about his gripping new documentary that takes aim at those who took us to war in Iraq.
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A War Not Worth Fighting
Public sentiment is solidly against the war; when will the President and political leaders of both parties have the courage to end it?
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Why the US Military Loves Ron Paul
The anti-war Texas Republican is pulling more campaign contributions from the military than John McCain. That says a lot about the mindset of the troops.
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Harvard's Humanitarian Hawks
Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights doesn't officially favor the war in Iraq, so why is it helping Gen. David Petraeus devise a counter-insurgency doctrine?
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A Letter From IAVA
A veterans group takes issue with The Nation's investigation of the impact of the US military occupation on Iraqi civilians.
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Surge Mentality: White House in Denial
A White House report that claims the surge is working only throws fuel on the fire among both parties in Congress to push for withdrawal.
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Support Their Troops?
Alexander Cockburn : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
If the American people are largely against the war, what's the matter with the antiwar movement? The answer lies with what has happened over the years to the American left.
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The Deadly Occupation
Veterans of conscience have come forward with evidence that US forces kill Iraqi noncombatants every day. America must bring this deadly occupation to an immediate end.
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The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness
Chris Hedges & Laila Al-Arian : US Military
In a special investigation of the impact of the war on Iraqi civilians, interviews with fifty combat veterans reveals disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq--brutal acts that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.
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Iraq, By the Numbers
Tom Engelhardt : Civilian Casualties
No need to wait until September to see if the surge is working. Just look at the numbers.
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Saving Iraq
Robert Dreyfuss : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
Dire predictions aside, it's not too late for a unified, nationalist Iraq to emerge from the rubble.
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Taxpayers Lose, Halliburton Gains
A new report on Halliburton's role in the failed reconconstruction of Iraq documents how profits of the merchants of death are rising.
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Who's Afraid of History?
Official Washington wants to avoid the "divisive ordeal" of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins' nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the perfect opportunity.
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Voices in Conflict
Emily Douglas : Peace Activism
When Wilton High School censored a student play about the Iraq war, the cast went to the Public.
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Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar
The Iraq War, the declining supply of oil and a flood of US currency are setting the stage for economic disaster.
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Bringing the War Home
Laura Hanna & Astra Taylor : Peace Activism
Pointing imaginary guns and roughing up "Iraqi civilians", antiwar veterans brought the realities of the Iraq debacle to Manhattan, in a Memorial Day protest that turned Times Square into a combat zone.
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Hillary's Political Horror Story
Nicholas von Hoffman : Hillary Clinton
A new biography reveals that the Senator from New York--and a host of other Democrats--did not get all the facts before casting a crucial vote to invade Iraq.
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Words in a Time of War
A journalist speaks to UC Berkeley graduates about how the Bush Administration uses and abuses language to manipulate public opinion and distort reality.
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Cindy Sheehan's Farewell
Her unscripted activism was characterized by an element so often missing from politics: genuineness. But we haven't seen the last of Cindy Sheehan.
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Colossus of Baghdad
Tom Engelhardt : Architecture & Design
As conditions worsen inside Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middle East. Take a virtual tour.
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The Secret Air War in Iraq
Nick Turse : Civilian Casualties
Bombs from American planes are killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and no one in the mainstream media is talking about it.
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Exodus
Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.
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Iraq Timeline Runs Out
: Congress
What is it that Congressional Democrats don't get about the Iraq debate?
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Danger: Green Zone
Baghdad's Green Zone is swiftly becoming a very unsafe place for Americans. How much worse can it get?
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Want Out of Iraq? Call Your Senator
Medea Benjamin : Peace Activism
Don't just get angry about the continuing Iraq debacle. Pick up the phone.
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Graduates, Close Your Eyes
A passionate critic of the Iraq War has this advice for the Class of 2007: Be afraid. And look within for answers to all the problems you have inherited.
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Training Iraq's Death Squads
The Army's plan to professionalize Iraq's police could backfire, as militia-infiltrated squads become more effective killers.
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The Iraq Information Crackdown
Nicholas von Hoffman : Journalists & Journalism
The Iraqi government bans news footage of street carnage and the Pentagon blocks soldiers' access to YouTube and MySpace. Can we assume from this that the surge is going badly?
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The Price of a Life
Sure, the US government values the lives of innocents killed in combat. Just how much depends on whether they died in New York, Afghanistan or Iraq.
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While We Slept
A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.
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Outsourcing the War
Jeremy Scahill : Journalists & Journalism
Testimony to Congress on the impact of private military contractors in Iraq.
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Open Letter to Prince Harry
Amir Soltani Sheikoleslami : Great Britain
Be a prince of peace: Don't go to Iraq.
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Showdown on the War
Despite the Administration's crude and dishonest attacks on efforts to end the war, Congressional Democrats can't back down now.
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Pull the Plug on the Mercenary War
Who will stop the shadow US army in Iraq? Don't count on Congressional Democrats.
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Bush Blames the Troops
Bush is hiding behind the fiction that officers in the field are calling the shots.
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The Iraqi Refugee Crisis
The war in Iraq has caused one of the most severe refugee crises in history, and no one seems to be paying attention.
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Iraqis Finally Unite--Against the U.S.
Robert Scheer : Joseph Lieberman
According to Lieberman, the sight of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis chanting anti-American slogans at a protest in Najaf is proof that the surge is working.
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How to Get Out of Iraq
Bush's ineptitude has made a regional war in the Middle East a real possibility. Can diplomacy find a way out?
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Leave Your Morals at the Border
A Supreme Court ruling turns a blind eye to torture and human rights violations, as long as they're done offshore.
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That Was an Antiwar Vote?
The House Democratic leadership chooses merely to appear to oppose the war, while continuing to fund it.
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Car Bombs: WMDs the Surge Can't Stop
The favored weapon of the ill-armed and underfunded is the one weapon of mass destruction that the Bush Administration has totally ignored.
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How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits
Wounded soldiers returning from Iraq are increasingly being wrongly diagnosed by the military, which prevents them from collecting benefits.
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A Turning Point
: Congress
By voting to set a timetable to withdraw from Iraq, the House and Senate are finally at the table, challenging Bush's war-making.
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Bush's Shadow Army
A VideoNation report on the Bush Administration's growing dependence on private security forces such as Blackwater USA and efforts in Congress to rein them in.
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Bush's Shadow Army
Jeremy Scahill : George W. Bush Administration
An investigation into Blackwater USA reveals a frightening picture of a politically connected private army that serves as the administration's Praetorian guard.
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Here Comes Another 'Crime Wave'
Will any candidate have the fortitude to link America's crimes abroad with crime at home?
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Congress, End the War
After four years in Iraq, America and the world are crying for a way out of the bloodshed. Can Democrats lead the way?
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KBR's $400 Million Iraq Question
Jeremy Scahill & Garrett Ordower : Halliburton
Did the Pentagon's biggest Iraq contractor violate military policy by hiring Blackwater and other private military companies?
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Walter Reed Scandal: How Mainstream Media Let Us Down
Celia Viggo Wexler : US Military
Cutbacks and a penchant for profits and "happy news" hid the plight of wounded soldiers.
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Conscience and the War
Stephen F. Cohen : Peace Activism
After four years of war, complete withdrawal from Iraq is the only way to redeem our nation for the death and destruction it has imposed.
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Who Will Get the Oil?
War and corruption have decimated Iraq's oil supply, and Western companies are angling for a cut of what's left.
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An American Tragedy
The Iraq War has replaced Vietnam as the emblem of America's worst impulses.
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In the Morgue
Nicholas von Hoffman : Journalists & Journalism
To understand the human costs of US actions in Iraq, read the blog postings of Iraqi employees of the McClatchy News Service Baghdad bureau.
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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Rory Kennedy's new documentary examines the plight of torture victims in Iraq and stirs political passions at home.
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Wanted: A Binding Resolution on Iran
Nicholas von Hoffman : Congress
As debate unfolds on a non-binding Iraq resolution, the House should consider exacting a promise from President not to invade Iran.
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Levin's Pursuit of Douglas Feith
Sen. Carl Levin is determined to get to the bottom of how Douglas Feith's false intelligence helped lead the US to a disastrous and illegal war.
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Will the Watada Mistrial Spark an End to the War?
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
Now that Lieut. Ehren Watada's court-martial has ended in mistrial, his case could focus America's attention on how we came to fight an illegal war and what we must do to end it.
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A Message to Congress
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Congress
It's time for Congress to stop talking and start moving on Iraq.
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The Bacon in Bush's Budget
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Bush's military budget has less to do with running the country than with rewarding his pals and paying off his political debts.
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Who Can Stop the War?
The people don't like the war, but it will go on as long as there is money to fund it.
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Surge for Peace
Liza Featherstone : Peace Activism
Thanks to the efforts of the peace movement and a significant shift in public opinion, we can stop this war. But it's not going to be easy.
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Not All Lies Are Created Equal
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Looking for reasons to impeach the President? Listen to the testimony in Scooter Libby's perjury trial.
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Voices of Protest
Karen Houppert : Peace Activism
Peace activists and military families in DC Saturday were less angry than than resolute that the American people sent a clear signal in November to end the US occupation in Iraq.
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Pushing the Iraq Debate
Beyond merely opposing escalation, lawmakers are pushing tough measures to withdraw troops and defund the war.
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The Press and the Watada Trial
Also at stake in the trial of an Army officer who refuses to deploy to Iraq is the independence of the press.
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Iraqi Refugees Find No Haven in US
The 3 million refugees fleeing the Iraq war and insurgency will find no welcome mat here.
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Bush's Sacrifice
Nicholas von Hoffman : George W. Bush
Bush is soft-pedaling the idea of sacrifice as a way of making his war palatable to ordinary Americans. But the tactic isn't working all that well.
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The Illogic of Empire
Iraq is America's colonial war. Arguments for maintaining colonial rule in India are almost identical to the justifications offered for the continuing presence of US troops in Iraq and escalation of the war.
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The Verdict's In on Bush
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
No State of the Union message can erase the world's dismal verdict on Bush and the Iraq War.
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For the Republic
Can a single man force a nation to fight an unpopular war? Here's how Congress can stand up to Bush.
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A Question and a Follow-up for George W. Bush's Next Press Conference
Calvin Trillin : George W. Bush
It's not the surge we're worried about. It's the soldiers.
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Scootergate: The Trial
David Corn : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
In the case against Scooter Libby, the Iraq War is not on trial. But the integrity of the White House is.
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An Impartial Interrogation of George W. Bush
George McGovern : George W. Bush
A challenge to the President's moral integrity, wayward policies and strategies as he leads the American people deeper into war.
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Chuck Hagel Gets It
Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is more forthright about what's wrong in Iraq than any Democratic candidate so far.
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No to Escalation
Blocking Bush's escalation attempt is the first step toward bringing the troops home.
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Bush Isn't Listening
Katrina vanden Heuvel : George W. Bush
By ignoring his advisors and the will of the people, Bush is recklessly using American lives to salvage a delusional policy.
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Zero and Infinity
Patricia J. Williams : US Foreign Policy
Americans have become so sedated, obsessed and afraid, we are numb to the murders committed in our name.
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Iraqi Civilians Brace for a Surge
Sunni civilians have reason to fear more fighting, not only from a potential surge of US troops but also Kurdish militias mobilized by the Iraqi government.
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Ominous Signs of a Wider War
Michael T. Klare : US Military
The naming of Adm. William Fallon to replace Gen. John Abizaid as head of Centcom is an ominous sign that Bush is preparing for a wider war.
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Tax the Rich, End the War
Congress should levy a Victory Over Terror tax on the superrich which would expire once our troops are safely home.
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Bush's Theater of the Absurd
Bush is the insolent star of an absurd spectacle, seeking to escalate a failed war that Congress and the people oppose.
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The Democrats' First Test
Do the Dems have the vision to force Bush to pull back on Iraq and rebuild the economy?
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An Act of Barbarism
Robert Scheer : Saddam Hussein
Someone has to say it: The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that mocks all of Bush's posturing on Iraq.
2006
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The Urge to Surge
Democrats in Congress must remember that their midterm victory was a clear mandate to reverse Bush's war policy.
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Lt. Ehren Watada: Resister
Facing a showdown court-martial for refusing to serve in an illegal and unjust war, Lieut. Ehren Watada has become a flashpoint for the antiwar movement.
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About Face
In the most significant movement of dissident soldiers since Vietnam, nearly 1,000 active-duty officers and enlisted personnel have petitioned the government to withdraw from Iraq.
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Addicted to War
Obsessed GOP hawks--and some Democrats--want to end the Iraq war by escalating it, and Bush proposes expanding the military: America is hooked on the habit of military might.
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2006: A Year of Living Dangerously
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Bush's Lies
2006 will be remembered as a year in which the American people and the world rose up to challenge the criminal actions and deceit of the Bush Administration.
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ISG: Defeat With Honor
Pundits on the left just don't get it when they call the Iraq Study Group report "Stay the Course Lite." It's an admission of the Bush Administration's total failure.
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About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
For the first time since Vietnam, active-duty military personnel have organized to oppose a war that they are fighting.
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War: Voters Said No, Congress Said Yes
In Congress and the popular press, fantasy rules when the subject is Iraq.
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The Waiting Game
Expect a flurry of hearings on Iraq when the new Democrat-controlled Congress convenes. But no real action from lawmakers or the President is likely to be taken.
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Counting Our Casualities in Iraq
Nicholas von Hoffman : US Military
We are fast, too fast, approaching the 3,000th American combat death in Iraq.
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The Rumsfeld Legacy
Robert Scheer : Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld pops over to Iraq to tell his final lies.
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No Graceful Exit
The Iraq Study Group report may slow the impetus for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Those who seek genuine military disengagement must make their voices heard.
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Iraqis Seek to Stem Sectarian Violence
As the situation worsens and pressure builds for new US strategies, Iraqi groups are making tentative moves to stem sectarian violence.
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Brady Kiesling's Tale
A disenchanted diplomat who lost faith in the Bush-era State Department and resigned over the war in Iraq remains idealistic.
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The Iraq Study Group: A Fatal Flaw
The Iraq Study Group report is a stunning rebuke of Bush's Iraq policy. But its central premise--that the US can support the nonexistent Iraqi government and bolster its viciously sectarian armed forces--is fatally flawed.
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Getting Out
Robert Dreyfuss : US Military Presence Abroad
The foreign policy establishment knows the Iraq War is lost, but the search for an acceptable exit strategy has only just begun.
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Time to Leave
If the Iraq Study Group faces reality, it will conclude that the only feasible option for America is to leave Iraq--as quickly as possible.
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A Soldier's Story
Major Bill Edmonds : US Military
"For just a minute or two, step into my life. I am a soldier in the Army Special Forces, just back from Iraq, where I lived and fought beside my Iraqi counterpart as we battled the insurgency. I am a conflicted man."
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The Boomerang War
Bush launched the Iraq disaster, and it keeps coming back and hitting us in the head. And now he is counting on Iran to help bail us out.
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Bush's Vietnam Analogy
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
President Bush has said many dumb things in defense of his Iraq policy. Citing the Vietnam War as a model is his most ludicrous.
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Why Murtha Lost
The Pennsylvania Democrat's opposition to the Iraq War and Pelosi's endorsement couldn't match Steny Hoyer's seniority, experience and connections to House Democrats.
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Murtha's No Leftie: He's Right
As Democrats choose between a stalwart critic of the Iraq War and a proponent of Bush policies for Majority Leader, Fox News gets in the act, casting centrist Pennnsylvania Rep. John Murtha as a partisan extremist. Huh?
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The Last Antiwar Poem
Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra," written at the height of the Vietnam War, speaks with a jarring relevance today.
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And Now, Iraq
The election is over; the war is not. And George W. Bush is suddenly in one tight corner.
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Beginning of the End
Robert Dreyfuss : George W. Bush
The Iraq Study Group report comes too late for the 600,000 people who died in carnage that is likely to worsen. It won't satisfy the antiwar movement because it sets no timetable for withdrawal. But it does mark the beginning of the end of America's criminal war of aggression.
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The Baker Report, Leaked!
Stay the course? Cut and run? Cut the crap? What will former Secretary of State James A. Baker III propose after the midterm elections, when the bipartisan Iraq Study Group reveals new scenarios to end the Iraq debacle?
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The War and the Election
Ending the Iraq War is the most pressing issue facing America today.
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The Killing Fields of Iraq
The carnage the US has visited upon Iraq in the name of fighting terror has taken more than 600,000 lives. We are not building democracy, we are creating mayhem.
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Escape From Iraq
Bring back Saddam. Spring him from the slammer and put the old dictator back to work. Otherwise, we're never gonna get out of Iraq.
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Woodward, Revised
David Corn : Journalists & Journalism
Bob Woodward is late to the party: His new book, State of Denial, catches up to the story of the Iraq debacle that other journalists have been reporting for years.
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Foley's IMbroglio
It shows how hapless and shallow Democrats are that they show so little electoral joy in a principled challenge to GOP rule. Instead we get tactical theatrics about whatever comes down the pike: gas prices or Foley.
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Failing the Test
President Bush was correct when he said that not since the cold war has the nation been so tested. But the test lies not in the terror threat but in his Administration's incompetence.
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The Real Tragedy
Eric Weinberger : September 11
Five years after the attack, Americans are impatient and angry about what has been done in their name. Our national tragedy is not September 11 but the war in Iraq, an agony that promises to go on for years.
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Plame's Role at the CIA
David Corn : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Valerie Plame was no CIA paper-pusher. She was searching out intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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Antiwar Primaries
John Nichols : Legislative Campaigns & Elections
Key primary races in Maryland, Rhode Island and even New York are making the Iraq War what it should be in every 2006 political contest: the central issue.
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Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero?
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's cachet is growing in the wake of a stem-winding speech in which he called the President to account for lies and ineptitude in Irag, castigated a complaisant media and assailed the electorate for passively consuming government lies.
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Challenging the Culture of Obedience
Ross C. Anderson : Bush's Lies
Through lies, ineptitude and immoral policies, the Bush Administration has led the nation to the brink of disaster, ruined our reputation and sowed hatred that will take generations to uproot.
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A World Unmoored by War
The United States now spends more in Iraq in a month that the entire world spends on fighting AIDS in a year. Have we reached the point where the terror of AIDS is no match for the war against terror?
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Truth Time for Democrats
Robert Scheer : Democratic Party
Democrats must transcend all their intraparty squabbles over the war in Iraq and focus on the obligation of politicians to be honest with the public.
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Iraq Is Dying
As an array of Iraqi leaders met with American peace activists this week in Amman, Jordan, a grim picture emerged of what the future will be, regardless of whether US troops stay or depart.
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Take Back Our Country
Fighting words from a 98-year-old activist about the power of the people to demand peace and achieve peace justice in these troubled times.
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Watada, the War and the Law
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
Bolstered by a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush Administration's excessive exercise of power, Lieut. Ehren Watada's pending court-martial could help restore the rule of law and energize a popular movement to end an illegal war.
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Standing Against an Unjust War
A Quaker activist explains why the war in Iraq is not only illegal, but morally indefensible.
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Stop the Waffling
Robert Scheer : Hillary Clinton
Democrats should take a page from the GOP playbook and back candidates willing to stand up for their values, rather than wasting their money, time and votes on those who won't.
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Shifting Winds on Iraq
Peace sentiments are rising among the American public and even in the much-divided Democrats. What does this mean for electoral politics and for the course of a war that seems to have no end in sight?
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History Lesson
Nicholas von Hoffman : Economic Policy
Back in Washington's day, Congress printed money to fight the Revolutionary War without collecting taxes to back it up--and paid the price in inflation: History repeats itself today.
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Lieutenant Watada's War Against the War
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
In a remarkable, media-savvy protest, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has refused orders to go to Iraq, claiming the war and the occupation violate the Constitution, international law and Army regulations.
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Moving Toward the Exit
Americans know it's time to end the US presence in Iraq. They will reward the party that offers a plan for leaving before more American soldiers--and countless Iraqis--are killed.
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War Is Personal: Mona Parsons/Age 52/Mt. Vernon, Ohio
The hidden toll the Iraq War takes is exposed in this photo essay on how one mother braces for her son's second deployment to Iraq.
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Hillary's Hypocrisy
Robert Scheer : Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton's dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarassment for her presidential ambitions and for anyone who looks to her for leadership.
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Bush's Baghdad Palace
The United States has made no headway quelling the insurgency or rebuilding Iraq, but one secret project is on target: construction of a palatial US Embassy inside the Green Zone. What kind of exit strategy is this?
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Nightmare Scenario
Nicholas von Hoffman : US Military
Exhausted and overused American forces could become so unglued that staying in Iraq may well become impossible. Then what?
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Wall Street Doesn't Like This War
High levels of uncertainty, poor management and an $800 billion expenditure on a venture that has put America's brand at risk all conspire to make the Street pretty skittish about Iraq.
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Why Haditha Matters
The Haditha massacre cannot be blamed solely on soldiers gone berserk. The Marine Corps cover-up suggests that moral damage from the Iraq War has affected more than a single debased unit.
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Status Quo Gitmo
Progressives have sparked courtroom litigation and social protest to focus public attention on Guantánamo. Now the Bush Administration should shut it down.
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Heckuva Job
Desperate to report progress in Iraq Bush boasts that the newest Iraqi leader has taken his phone call twice. Wow. And it only cost $200 billion and thousands of dead and maimed Americans.
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Hawks for Withdrawal
As centrist Democrats slowly but surely unite around a plan for military withdrawal from Iraq that is heavy with hawkish reasoning, what are the implications for the peace movement?
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Songs of Protest
: Music
As the war in Iraq causes more devastation, courageous musicians are using song to move a nation.
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War Is Personal: Carlos Arredondo/Age 45/Roslindale, Massachusetts
War Is Personal: A photo-essay on how grief has transformed the father of a slain US marine.
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No Longer Sitting Pretty
Reality, for the moment, has trumped Bush's spin. The retired generals' revolt and the Rumsfeld imbroglio prove the President can no longer rely on false or disingenuous assertions to cover his failures.
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Blood Is Thicker Than Blackwater
Lawsuits by families of soldiers-for-hire killed in Falluja have put a major war profiteer in the cross-hairs.
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Inside Man
Perry Anderson : Conservatives & The American Right
In America at the Crossroads, Francis Fukuyama critiques the neoconservative movement and its disastrous defense of the Iraq War. But he remains fully committed to the unchecked use of American power.
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They Should Have Hissed Barack Obama
Alexander Cockburn : Peace Activism
The war is coming home, in the form of people dreadfully wounded in body and spirit. Yet Democratic candidates aren't too worried about their hawkish stance, because the peace movement has no fire in its belly.