Pentagon Investigating Iraq Electrocution Death Pentagon Investigating Iraq Electrocution Death
Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Carol Shea-Porter argue that since Adam Hermanson died while working on a Defense Department contract, the DoD is obliged to investigate.
Oct 28, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Welcome to 2025: American Pre-eminence Ends Fifteen Years Early Welcome to 2025: American Pre-eminence Ends Fifteen Years Early
The American intelligence community has missed the boat on how quickly the US has fallen from "sole superpower" status.
Oct 27, 2009 / Feature / Michael T. Klare
Ehren Watada: Free at Last Ehren Watada: Free at Last
After three years of trying to convict Lt. Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq, the Army has allowed him to resign.
Oct 26, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World
Will today's US-armed ally be tomorrow's enemy?
Oct 19, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Is America Hooked on War? Is America Hooked on War?
The United States is coming ever closer to a state that matches the Orwellian slogan from 1984: war is peace.
Sep 17, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Rohrabacher to Iraqis: Be More Grateful! Rohrabacher to Iraqis: Be More Grateful!
The House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight met today to discuss issues of sovereignty and stability in Iraq ranging from the country's longst...
Sep 17, 2009 / Chris Hayes
GI Joe, Post-American Hero GI Joe, Post-American Hero
Why is it that GI Joe--like all action figures in all action movies of this moment--has left the all-American battlefield for outer, or future or alternate space?
Aug 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Biking Out of Iraq Biking Out of Iraq
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.
Aug 13, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland
A single platoon lost in a military limbo is a measurement of the stress under which the US Army now operates.
Aug 10, 2009 / Feature / Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare
Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire
The United States no longer has the capability to remain a global hegemon, and to pretend otherwise is to invite disaster.
Jul 31, 2009 / Feature / Chalmers Johnson