Iraq War

2009

• Ehren Watada: Free at Last

  Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military

  After three years of trying to convict Lt. Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq, the Army has allowed him to resign.

• Harry Reid: Investigate Iraq Electrocutions

  Jeremy Scahill

  The Senate majority leader calls on Gates and Clinton to find out if shoddy electrical work by contractors killed Adam Hermanson.

• Triple Canopy Iraq and Electrocution Deaths

  Democracy Now

  Jeremy Scahill appears with the Hermanson family, whose son Adam was killed in Iraq while employed with Triple Canopy, the "new Blackwater."

• The Death of Adam Hermanson

  Jeremy Scahill

  The family of a military contractor electrocuted in Baghdad is alleging his employer, Triple Canopy misled them about how he died.

• Another Mysterious Electrocution Death in Iraq

  Jeremy Scahill

  The death of a Triple Canopy contractor in Iraq bears a striking resemblance to an earlier electrocution ruled to be a "negligent homicide."

• Biking Out of Iraq

  Tom Engelhardt : US Military

  Reflections on troops that don't depart, experts who never leave the scene, an Air Force that suddenly wasn't there and a war that no longer needs justification.

• White House is Whistling Past Afghan Graveyard

  Jeremy Scahill : Russell Feingold

  In an exclusive interview with The Nation, Sen. Russ Feingold defends his lone vote to oppose the latest amendment to the Defense Authorization bill.

• Iraq's New Death Squad

  Shane Bauer

  America has built an elite and lethal counterterrorism force. But who's calling the shots?

• Torture and Truth

  Jonathan Schell : Torture

  The war, as we learned from the photos of Abu Ghraib, produced torture. Before that happened, torture had produced war.

• $1 Trillion and Counting...

  Jo Comerford : U.S. Economy

  The $1 trillion we have spent on war since 9/11 has placed enormous stress on our recession-struck economy.

• KBR Got Bonuses for Work that Killed Soldiers

  Jeremy Scahill : Halliburton

  Former Halliburton subsidy KBR was paid $83 million in bonuses for work that electrocuted US soldiers, former employees testified today.

• Did McChrystal Violate Geneva Conventions?

  Tom Hayden : Afghanistan War

  Obama's pick to be the top US commander in Afghanistan directed a screening center in Iraq in 2003 that held terror suspects in secret facilities to which the Red Cross did not have access.

• 

  The Trials of Ehren Watada

  Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Peace Activism

  The government drops efforts to prosecute an officer who refused to fight in Iraq. But the Army continues its campaign against him.

• 

  What Was I Fighting For?

  Rick Reyes : Afghanistan War

  I witnessed firsthand the ineffectiveness of US military strategy in Afghanistan. We need a clear mission, an exit strategy and a commitment to diplomacy.

• Is Anyone Covering Iraq Anymore?

  GRIT TV

  The Iraq war wasn't one of the US media's finer moments. But six years on, have they improved?

• 

  Obama's Iraq Exit

  The Editors

  Obama's exit plan leaves unresolved the role of private security contractors and the residual force of as many as 50,000 troops that will remain in place.

• 

  Partial Peace, Looming War

  Tom Hayden : Peace Activism

  The peace movement claims victory with Obama's promise to pull US troops from Iraq by 2011. But elsewhere in a volatile world, a long war looms.