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Feb 17 2010 - 1:42pm

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Afghanistan war
With the War in Afghanistan Ending, Where Does the Peace Movement Go Next? (Movements, War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

Peace forces could join with labor, civil rights and environmental coalitions to pressure Obama to “do some nation-building here at home.”

Tom Hayden
Military personell
The True Costs of Empire (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Government, US Military Presence Abroad)

Why are US taxpayers still forced to pay billions of dollars for US military bases?

David Vine
Barack Obama
Obama in Tehran? (Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Arms and Proliferation)

What remains of the initial Obama drive to reach out to Iran with an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect”?

Pepe Escobar
Israeli soldier guarding a detainee
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, War and Peace, Shelf Life)

Breaking the Silence’s Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000–2010.

Eyal Press
Barack Obama
The Barack Obama Story (Updated) (Barack Obama, US Wars and Military Action, The Constitution)

How did a community organizer and a constitutional law professor become an extrajudicial, drone-happy president? 

Tom Engelhardt
Drone flies above Afghanistan
The Possibility of a 'Drone Drawdown' in Peace Talks (Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

A combination of diplomacy, legal challenges and activism could end the program of US drone strikes.

Tom Hayden
The War of the Image Managers (US Politics, Media, US Military)

How can two generals be hailed as military heroes, when the wars they commanded failed spectacularly?

Tom Engelhardt
David Petraeus
Generals Behaving Badly (US Politics, Media, US Military)

Petraeus may have had the affair, but we're all responsible for the U.S' worshipful embrace of our military generals. 

William J. Astore
A column of prisoners at Jaworzno camp in Poland, a former subcamp of Auschwitz
A Brutal Peace: On the Postwar Expulsions of Germans (Books & Arts, Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, History)

Did postwar population transfers complete a project of ethnic cleansing started by Hitler?

Tara Zahra
As Gazans Recover From Israeli Attacks, Trauma Mixes With Tentative Hope (War and Peace, World)

Civilians pay the heaviest toll in Gaza, and when the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas put an end to the violence, thousands took to the street to celebrate.

Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Blogs

New Film by an Oscar Nominee Exposes the 'War' on Whistleblowing
Greg Mitchell

The creator of Incident in East Baghdad is completing a documentary on excesses of the surveillance state.

February 19, 2013
Iran's Supreme Leader: Get the Gun Out of Our Face, and We'll Negotiate
Bob Dreyfuss

Is Washington negotiating in “good faith” given its sanctions, espionage and two wars in the region?

February 14, 2013
What Obama Won't Tell Us About Afghanistan Tonight
Bob Dreyfuss

Drawing down soldiers by 2016 isn’t fast enough—just look at the many civilians killed by the US military and the prisoners tortured by US-trained forces.

February 12, 2013
Nick Turse: The United States Hasn't Owned up to Vietnam War Crimes
Nation in the News

The author recounts his long, difficult struggle to expose the truth about atrocities.

February 11, 2013
Democrats Have a Unique Constitutional Duty to Check, Balance the President
John Nichols

Members of the party of a sitting president have a higher responsibility to raise constitutional concerns about drone policy.

February 10, 2013
President Obama Should Go to Chicago. And Yemen. And Pakistan. And ...
Mychal Denzel Smith

The president should condemn violence at home, and hold himself accountable for violence abroad, as well. 

February 8, 2013
Jeremy Scahill: Why Did the Senate Let John Brennan Get Away With Murder?
Nation in the News

Jeremy Scahill rips apart the hearings for Obama’s “assassination czar.”

February 8, 2013
As Brennan 'Escapes,' Criticism of Media 'Self-Censorship' on Drone Program Grows
Greg Mitchell

The press has not only failed to ask the tough questions but also inexplicably kept secret the existence of a base in Saudia Arabia.

February 8, 2013
Nine Things John Brennan Needs to Explain Today
George Zornick

No Congressional hearing has examined the secret expansion of targeted drone killings, but the senate has a chance to grill Obama's nominee for CIA director today.

February 7, 2013
Questions for John Brennan That Won't Get Asked
Bob Dreyfuss

Because if he told them, he’d have to kill them. Wait. He did.

February 6, 2013
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