Civilian Casualties

Attack of the Drones

Priya Satia : Afghanistan War

Airstrikes, manned or unmanned, regulated or not, cannot build a better Afghan future.

Killing Civilians: How Safe Do You Actually Want to Be?

Tom Engelhardt : Afghanistan

Why dead Afghan civilians aren't collateral damage but the heart of the matter.

The Most-Wanted List

Noam Chomsky : War on Terrorism

Making a list of the most hated arch-criminals--not the usual suspects.

CSI: Iraq

Tom Engelhardt : Iraq War

Despite the cosmetic acts of President Bush, his undertakers and enablers, America's Iraq is still a corpse.

The Terror America Wrought

Robert Scheer : World War II

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.

Red Zone, Green Zone

Tom Engelhardt : Iraq War

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.

A Letter From IAVA

Iraq War

A veterans group takes issue with The Nation's investigation of the impact of the US military occupation on Iraqi civilians.

The Deadly Occupation

: US Military

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.

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.

Iraq, By the Numbers

Tom Engelhardt : Iraq War

No need to wait until September to see if the surge is working. Just look at the numbers.

The Secret Air War in Iraq

Nick Turse : Iraq War

Bombs from American planes are killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and no one in the mainstream media is talking about it.

Iraq's Civilian Casualties

Jefferson Morley : US Wars & Military Action

Grief Without Portraits

Michael Massing : Afghanistan

Korean My Lai

Bruce Cumings : Korea

Close, But No Cigar

Christopher Hitchens : Bill Clinton

Libyan Epilogue

Ramsey Clark : Libya