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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

Will Paul Ryan Raise a Bloody Al Qaeda Flag?
Bob Dreyfuss

Al Qaeda is nearly gone, and the war in Afghanistan is nearly over. 

October 11, 2012
Red Cross, Crisis Group Issue Bleak Afghan Forecasts
Bob Dreyfuss

Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta spews happy talk at a NATO meeting.

October 10, 2012
Turkey's NATO Trap for Obama
Bob Dreyfuss

The president needs his famous cool in the Syria crisis.

October 4, 2012
White House Cover-Up: When Truman Censored the First Hollywood Movie on the Atomic Bomb
Greg Mitchell

Sixty-seven years later, a look at one of the great, unknown tales of Hollywood "censorship."

September 27, 2012
After DADT Repeal: Choosing Our Battles
Timothy Patrick McCarthy

A year ago, the repeal of “don't ask, don't tell” was a great step for LGB rights, but it did not nearly go far enough.

September 26, 2012
War Is (Still) Hell
Timothy Patrick McCarthy

From the Gettysburg to Afghanistan, our tendency to romanticize war causes us to gloss over its hellish aspects.

September 25, 2012
Why Progressives Should Vote for Obama
Timothy Patrick McCarthy

President Obama and the Democrats are not the “lesser of two evils.” On the contrary, they are the far superior—and more progressive—choice in 2012.

September 18, 2012
Neoconjobs
Eric Alterman

The Obama administration's quiet reponse to a 2010 bombing in Georgia contrasts with the macho foreign policy vision Mitt demonstrated with his response to riots in the Arab world this week.

September 13, 2012
Who's Got the Nukes?
William Greider

As Israel steps up its saber-rattling against Iran, the US press continues to ignore facts that would undermine Israel's “moral” position.

September 12, 2012
Jeremy Scahill: Why Won't the Media Take Obama to Task for Targeted Assassinations?
Nation in the News

Why didn't the media question the "parade of jingoism" surrounding Democrats' celebration of President Obama's foreign policy in Charlotte last week?

September 10, 2012
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