About Face About Face
In the most significant movement of dissident soldiers since Vietnam, nearly 1,000 active-duty officers and enlisted personnel have petitioned the government to withdraw from Iraq.
Dec 20, 2006 / Feature / Marc Cooper
About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
For the first time since Vietnam, active-duty military personnel have organized to oppose a war that they are fighting.
Dec 16, 2006 / Feature / Marc Cooper
No Graceful Exit No Graceful Exit
The Iraq Study Group report may slow the impetus for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Those who seek genuine military disengagement must make their voices heard.
Dec 11, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors
Battleground Cinema Battleground Cinema
Video activists and independent filmmakers are on the ground in war zones from Iraq to Lebanon and Gaza, using documentaries as instruments of peacemaking.
Dec 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Huff-Hannon
Soldiers of Conscience Soldiers of Conscience
A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world w...
Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Staughton Lynd
Microcredit, Macro Issues Microcredit, Macro Issues
The Swedish Academy bestowed this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit. It's easy to believe Yunus's low-interest loans to the poor are a silver b...
Oct 15, 2006 / Editorial / Walden Bello
Take Back Our Country Take Back Our Country
Fighting words from a 98-year-old activist about the power of the people to demand peace and achieve peace justice in these troubled times.
Jul 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Elsie Fox
Watada, the War and the Law Watada, the War and the Law
Bolstered by a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush Administration's excessive exercise of power, Lieut. Ehren Watada's pending court-martial could help restore the rule of l...
Jul 10, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Standing Against an Unjust War Standing Against an Unjust War
A Quaker activist explains why the war in Iraq is not only illegal, but morally indefensible.
Shifting Winds on Iraq Shifting Winds on Iraq
Peace sentiments are rising among the American public and even in the much-divided Democrats. What does this mean for electoral politics and for the course of a war that seems to h...
Jul 2, 2006 / Feature / Tom Hayden