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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney's Neocon War Cabinet (Foreign Policy, Conservatives and the American Right, Election 2012, US Wars and Military Action)

Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

Ari Berman
The Obama Contradiction (Foreign Policy, Government, US Wars and Military Action)

Weakling at home, imperial president abroad.

Tom Engelhardt
Wars of Attrition from Vietnam to Afghanistan (US Military Presence Abroad, US Wars and Military Action)

The U.S. military is stuck in a four-decade rut.

Nick Turse
Taking Uncle Sam for a Ride (Foreign Policy, War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

How Pakistan makes Washington pay for the Afghan war.

Dilip Hiro
What the Laws of War Allow (War and Peace, Law, US Wars and Military Action)

Do the WikiLeaks War Logs reveal war crimes? Or do they reveal the poverty of international law?

Chase Madar
The Afghan Syndrome (US Wars and Military Action)

Vietnam has left town. Say hello to the new syndrome on the block.

Tom Engelhardt
Joining the Whistleblowers' Club (Government, US Wars and Military Action)

What we lost in Iraq and Washington between 2009 and 2012.

Peter Van Buren
Soldier and boy in Afghanistan
Time to Get Out of Afghanistan (US Wars and Military Action)

The mutual resentment between the Afghan people and the US military has broken out in the open.

The Editors
Washington's Nightmare in Afghanistan (War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

Why Afghan history is a sobering antidote to the relentless optimism of the American military.

Ann Jones
Fanning the Flames in Afghanistan (War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

How US (in)actions have all but ensured a failed end to its presence in Afghanistan.

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse

Blogs

Ten Years Ago: Media Coverage of the 'Fall' of Baghdad Helped Spark More Years of War
Greg Mitchell

Who could forget the fakery around the fall of Saddam's statue? And the mainstream media was cheerleading all the way.

April 9, 2013
Media 'Cover-up' of Iraq War: Images Sanitized From the Start
Greg Mitchell

Why did Americans take so long to wake up to the loss of life in Iraq? Because the darker side of the invasion wasn't televised.

March 28, 2013
Ten Years Ago: How US Media 'Bungled' Coverage of the Early Days of the Iraq War
Greg Mitchell

After its shallow coverage of the lead-up to the invasion, the press turned to shallow coverage of the invasion itself.

March 27, 2013
Uproar Over the 'Wash Post' Killing My Piece—and Publishing One Claiming the Media 'Didn't Fail' on Iraq
Greg Mitchell

Rather than run a scheduled article critical of newspapers’ irresponsible approach to the Iraq invasion, the Post offered excuses and denials.

March 25, 2013
This Week: Lessons Learned From the Iraq Invasion
Katrina vanden Heuvel

One decade later, one of the most devastating tragedies in recent memory--a look back and plan forward.

March 23, 2013
Reviewing This Week's Mea Culpas on Iraq: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Greg Mitchell

Many strident voices who called for war in Iraq are now claiming ignorance and making excuses.

March 22, 2013
Ten Years Later, NPR Still Lets War Hawks Make Pathetic Excuses
Leslie Savan

The sins of omission in interviewing neocons Richard Perle and Stephen Hadley.

March 22, 2013
30 Seconds Over Toledo: How Political Ads Spell Trouble for TV News and Democracy
Eric Alterman

In the wake of Citizens United, big campaign donors are buying off not only politicians, but also the local news networks that cover them.

March 21, 2013
A Dying Iraq Vet's Indictment of Bush and Cheney
John Nichols

Tomas Young accuses the White House of war crimes and murder, including that of “the thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.”

March 20, 2013
Jeremy Scahill: Democrat Leaders Are Also to Blame for the Iraq War
Nation in the News

Following Bill Clinton’s cruel economic sanctions, Joe Biden and John Kerry were complicit in the “non-debate” during the run-up to the invasion.

March 20, 2013