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Who's losing and who's winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?

Who's losing and who's winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Economics
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.
Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.
Andrew J. Bacevich : Non-Fiction
By creating an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, Presidents have expanded their powers and hidden their actions from the public eye.
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?
Patrick Mulvaney : Foreign Affairs
Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army's School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuates human rights atrocities.
Eric Alterman : Media Coverage of the War on Terrorism
The 9/11 Commission's startling follow-up report that savages the Bush Administration's inadequate efforts to protect the country from terrorism was met by the media with a collective yawn. And so we remain vulnerable, amazed and, if sensate, terrified.
Eric Alterman : Democratic Party
Why do Americans trust Bush and the Republicans on national security issues?
Bush's motives have more to do with empire and profit than with liberating Iraq.
It's no secret that the Taliban were tolerated by the West because they stabilized a violent country by smothering it.
Jerry W. Sanders : Foreign Affairs
A crucial test of US commitment to multilateralism involves the endgame in Afghanistan.
This year's protest against the School of the Americas marked a standoff between a galvanized peace movement and the continuing militarization of US foreign policy.
The Taliban may have met its match: the American Dream Machine.
With the air war in Afghanistan apparently bogged down, the Pentagon is trying to alter the balance of forces on the propaganda front.
Liza Featherstone : New York City
On October 13, speakers at an antiwar rally in NYC did their best to avoid the thorny question of how to fight terrorism without bombs.
Jonathan Schell : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
The destruction of the twin towers was a taste of annihilation, a small piece of the end of the world.
Representative Dennis Kucinich wants to establish an official Department of Peace--and he's got a bill and thirty-eight co-sponsors to back him up.


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